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handle Definition In English

0 a part of an object designed for holding, moving, or carrying the object easily:
- She turned the handle and slowly opened the door.
- I can't pick the kettle up - the handle's too hot.
- the handle on a suitcase
- a door handle
1 a name of a person or place, especially a strange one:
- You can follow the team on Twitter under the handle @ManUtd.
- Twitter handles start with an @ sign.
- That's some handle to go through life with!
2 to deal with, have responsibility for, or be in charge of:
- Who handles the marketing in your company?
- If you can't handle the job I'll get someone else to do it.
- Some people are brilliant with computers, but have no idea how to handle (= behave with) other people.
- I thought he handled the situation very well.
3 to pick something up and touch, hold, or move it with your hands:
- Please don't handle the vases - they're very fragile.
- Always wash your hands before handling food.
4 to operate or control something that could be difficult or dangerous:
- Have you ever handled a gun before?
5 to buy and sell goods:
- mainly UK He's been arrested for handling stolen goods.
- We only handle cosmetics that have not been tested on animals.

The recorded animals remained in their full-sib groups and any difference between them is due to handling frequency.
However, traditional multivariate analysis is incapable of handling such a high dimensionality of the multivariate model.
Replicated loop designs are very convenient and efficient designs for handling this latter situation.
To encourage the development of parental confidence and skills in handling and feeding which reduces parental anxiety, increases their sense of competency and controllability.
A very convenient non-standard method for handling the singular perturbation problems for any limiting case will be presented.
All responses are being handled collectively, without identifying any particular respondent in the summary of results.
She covers about 800 advertisements in different written genres, which makes her study wider because she handles advertising as well as business names.
The o(2) norm is handled in the same way.