Handle
To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.
To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
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.
To deal with; to make a business of.
To treat; to use, well or ill.
To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
To use the hands.
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.
That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.
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Handle Quotations
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
Lily Tomlin
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.
Johnny Depp
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
Charlie Sheen
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Brian Tracy
Handle Translations
handle in Afrikaans is hanteer
handle in Danish is behandle
handle in Dutch is oor, kruk, handvat, hengsel, klink
handle in Finnish is neuvotella
handle in German is Griff, Stiel, verarbeiten, behandeln
handle in Italian is servire, gambo, orecchia
handle in Latin is contrecto
handle in Portuguese is punho
handle in Spanish is tratar, culata, mastil, asa
handle in Swedish is hantera, handha, handskas med, vev, handtag
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