What's the difference between broomstick and handle?

Broomstick


Definition:

  • (n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All had been treated by an extremely rigorous conservative regime in which the patients were kept in hospital for an average period of twenty-six months, during which time they were confined to bed with the legs in wide abduction, first in traction and later in "broomstick" plasters to ensure "containment" of the femoral head.
  • (2) People might not be facing an incident, but they can still have an acoustic experience of it.” Deprived of their visual sense for months and years on end, the Saydnaya detainees developed an acute aural sensitivity, able to identify the different sounds of belts, electrical cables or broomsticks on flesh, and the difference between bodies being punched, kicked or beaten against the wall.
  • (3) LoveFilm subscribers will be able to watch more than 50 Disney titles, including Dead Poets Society and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, as part of the deal.
  • (4) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
  • (5) The splinters were identified as the same type of wood as the broomstick.
  • (6) Hogwarts Castle will sit at the apex of each attraction, and visitors can also dine at the Three Broomsticks pub, pick up a wand at Ollivander's store or snack on sweets from Hogsmead's famous Honeyduke's sweet shop.
  • (7) Two years ago, the city paid $8.75m in damages to a Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima, who was beaten and sodomised with a broken broomstick at a Brooklyn police station after being mistaken for a man who threw a punch at a police officer.
  • (8) While a full accounting of what the photos show remains elusive, the ACLU believes that among the still-suppressed photos are imagery of a female soldier sexually abusing a detainee with a broomstick; an Iraqi civilian farmer executed by US troops while his hands were tied behind his back; and autopsy photos of an Afghan detainee known as Dilawar, whose death was the subject of Alex Gibney’s acclaimed 2007 documentary Taxi to the Dark Side.
  • (9) Anyone who's ever done a ropey Yoda voice, or gone to a fancy dress party in a brown dressing gown, or filmed themselves swinging a broomstick around with dangerous abandon; all they've ever wanted was to be in a Star Wars film.
  • (10) Two hundred ninety-six cases of Perthes' disease with 334 affected hips (38 children had bilateral involvement) were treated by the principle of containment in a "broomstick cast" in abduction and internal rotation, preserved motion in the hip, and continuous traction.
  • (11) Then, in the bathroom of a precinct house, with his hands cuffed behind his back and his pants down, he was sodomized by a cop with a broken broomstick.
  • (12) Rooftop pixos require guts and the right equipment – black ink and a paint roller attached to a broomstick – but sometimes that’s not enough, and to extend their reach, pixadores have to dangle their bodies over the roof ledge.
  • (13) From now until the end of October, Alnwick is hosting regular Battleaxe to Broomstick Tours in which kids learn from costumed guides about the estate's film career and learn about the similarities between the castle's very own knight Harry Hotspur and JK Rowling's boy wizard.
  • (14) Musk has described the feat as “like trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.
  • (15) Landing the craft on the barge was akin to “trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm,” said a statement on the company’s website before the mission .
  • (16) The company has compared landing the rocket, roughly the height of a 14-storey building, to “trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.
  • (17) Not only has she had to field 1,000 chat-up lines involving magic and broomsticks, she complains, but she has had to shield her partners from her fame.
  • (18) A broken wooden broomstick was used in the attack to impale the victim through the rectum.
  • (19) Slings and springs, broomstick casts, soft tissue releases, and day or night bracing all have a place in obtaining and retaining a good range of abduction.
  • (20) In the company’s words , stabilizing the rocket for re-entry and an upright landing will be “like trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.

Handle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
  • (v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.
  • (v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
  • (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.
  • (v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of.
  • (v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill.
  • (v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
  • (v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
  • (v. i.) To use the hands.
  • (n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.
  • (n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (3) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (4) Control of cell calcium handling and transport may be abnormal in hypertension.
  • (5) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
  • (6) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
  • (7) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
  • (8) In this study, we examined renal tubular cell handling of digoxin and ouabain using LLC-PK1 cells, a model of proximal renal tubular cells.
  • (9) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
  • (10) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
  • (11) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
  • (12) Techniques are described for the special handling of these cells as well as suitable assay procedures.
  • (13) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (14) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
  • (15) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
  • (16) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
  • (17) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
  • (18) Both techniques are used by industry and regulatory agencies to monitor levels of fungal contamination at various stages of food handling, storing, processing and marketing.
  • (19) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
  • (20) The greatest care should be exercised by industry in handling tremolite or materials contaminated with it.

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