(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.
Sledgehammer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
(2) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(3) Critics describe it as unwieldy, unfocused and unlikely to achieve its aims – a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
(4) On one occasion you broke her arm, on another you dislocated her knee with a sledgehammer.
(5) But coming down with a sledgehammer on anything that moves makes the government look more like a raging bull than a confident operator playing by the rules.
(6) After failing to stall its release altogether, the country's government has set about attacking it with its customary sledgehammer diplomacy.
(7) The former Daily Mirror crime reporter, Jeff Edwards, said at the time that Filkin’s report appeared to “have taken a sledgehammer to crack a nut”.
(8) My understanding is that more than one person, each with a sledgehammer, were involved.
(9) 12.01pm GMT Funding for flood defences were battered by "sledgehammer" cuts to Defra's budget, according to Andrew Parkes, the Labour candidate for Milton Keynes South.
(10) The sledgehammers and stilettos of a gendered society impact upon, and are wielded by, every man, woman and child.
(11) And last October, a man disguised as a construction worker took a sledgehammer to it.
(12) Despite a French military intervention that began in 2013, and the deployment of 10,000 UN peacekeepers across northern Mali, armed fundamentalists continue to be active, and Timbuktu’s mosques prime targets for their sledgehammers.
(13) Morrison said he and “the prime minister and the treasurer and others have been sending a very clear and consistent message to those who are saving for their retirement that we don’t think that Labor’s tax sledgehammer on your retirement income earnings is the right thing to do”.
(14) A technocrat who offered fine-tuning when the country wanted to take a sledgehammer to the machine.
(15) Directed energy and other weapons of the “future” As for the weaponry, Sledgehammer has used military advisors to ensure its authenticity.
(16) Conservationists described the tactic as "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut" and fear that applying the insecticide indiscriminately will kill off other insects including other species of moths and butterflies.
(17) Dave Rowntree, an FAC board member and the drummer in Blur, says Mandelson's proposals are akin to trying to "crack a nut with a sledgehammer" .
(18) One wears a flat cap, one wields a sledgehammer, one has a welder's visor.
(19) "We feel as if we have been hit with a sledgehammer," he said.
(20) If it's not Miley Cyrus licking a sledgehammer , it's Robin Thicke cavorting with naked women or Lily Allen having liposuction and getting dancers to twerk for her.