Treat
To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.
To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company.
To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for.
To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.
To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid.
To entreat; to beseech.
To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to make discussion; -- usually with of; as, Cicero treats of old age and of duties.
To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; -- often followed by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France.
To give a gratuitous entertainment, esp. of food or drink, as a compliment.
A parley; a conference.
An entertainment given as an expression of regard.
That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat.
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Treat Quotations
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn Monroe
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The way you see people is the way you treat them.
Zig Ziglar
If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
Zig Ziglar
Treat Translations
treat in Afrikaans is onthaal, behandel
treat in Dutch is behandelen, cureren
treat in Finnish is neuvotella, parantaa
treat in German is behandeln
treat in Italian is coltivare
treat in Portuguese is deleite
treat in Spanish is obsequio, curar, acostumbrar, tratar
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