(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.
Teacup
Definition:
(n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2007, Eurostar ran adverts in Belgium for its trains to London depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup.
(3) I see the teacup with my eyes, but my brain refuses to send me the teacup message.
(4) Compared with working out if there is a real threat of nuclear war from the world's last full-dress totalitarian state, this may seem like a storm in a British teacup.
(5) Was it the greatest scandal in modern science or a storm in a teacup whipped up by climate sceptics and an uncritical media?
(6) Phillips, who described the issue as "a storm in a teacup", said the defence of fair comment was "one of the most difficult areas of the law of defamation".
(7) In his reading of the situation, his history with the Klan is a storm in a teacup, something the media only brings up to discredit his current criticism of international Zionism.
(8) I find these debates about reading as enjoyably incensing as anyone – and, just to be clear, I deplore the restrictions placed on prisoners' access to books , which seems less of a storm in a teacup and more of a violation of basic human rights.
(9) While the supreme court agreed in its judgment this morning with the solicitor advocate for the defendants that the case was "a storm in a teacup", they noted: "The storm is considerable.
(10) I remember feeling hungry; they gave us just a teacup.
(11) To take away those unique courses is to take away the heart of Soas.” Baroness Amos: I was taken aback when I found out I was the first black female head of a university Read more But the row was described as a “storm in a teacup” by a university spokesperson, who said the letter had been sent in error, and although cuts and savings did have to be made at Soas, no decisions had yet been taken.
(12) There, his mother, in her mid-30s, dressed in a spotless white blouse, and with a Lady Diana-like haircut, was reading a newspaper and sipping from a genteel white teacup.
(13) Half-udder comparisons were made using 56 cows for 2 months, in an experiment involving high bacterial challenge, to assess the combined effects of 5 min overmilking and pulsation failure (resulting from the use of shortened teacup liners) on teat condition and mastitis.
(14) But usually comics ride out these teacup-sized Twitterstorms - or indeed their real-world equivalents.
(15) Nobody wants a commemorative teacup of Kate on a stepladder doing the bathroom.
(16) The classic appearance is that of milk of calcium, seen as linear, curvilinear, or teacup-shaped particles on horizontal-beam lateral views and as ill-defined smudges on vertical-beam craniocaudal views.
(17) For those who had never heard of Lord Rennard , in the teacup of the Lib Dem party he is a storming figure.
(18) Something is terribly wrong with the way this incident has been shaped and spun into nothing more than an unfortunate mishap on a holiday weekend, like a broken teacup in the rented cottage."
(19) Someone informed me in the comments that Ruby has been engaged in a "Twitter row" but I just googled it and it sounds like a storm in a teacup.
(20) "I would say to you this is a bit of a storm in a teacup.