handle

«handle» in Mova's school dictionary: the part of a door, cup, pan, bag or tool that you hold — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a handle, handles); verb (handle, handles, handled, handling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A handle is the part of a door, cup, pan, bag or tool that you hold. tree →

2) To handle something is to touch it or hold it in your hands. tree →

3) To handle a problem or situation is to deal with it or manage it. tree →

4) A handle can be a name you use online. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety, turn pan handles inward on the stove so no one knocks them; hold knives by the handle; «handle with care» on a box means fragile. In science, handle animals and equipment gently and wash hands after handling them. In everyday life, «handle» means cope: «I can handle it». Phrases: «fly off the handle» (suddenly get very angry), «get a handle on» (understand).

examples

• Turn the door handle to open it. tree →
• Hold the mug by the handle; it is hot. tree →
• Turn the pan handles away from the edge. tree →
• Handle the hamster gently. tree →
• Wash your hands after handling raw meat. tree →
• She handled the problem calmly. tree →
• The handle of my bag broke. tree →
• Can you handle two dogs at once? tree →
• "Here's a cooking utensil with a tin handle." tree →

note

Countable as a noun: handles. «Handlebars» are the handles on a bike. «Handle» as a verb is regular: handled. «Fly off the handle» is an idiom, not about real handles.

In the corpora

• Alcohol is against the law to buy before 18 because growing bodies and brains handle it badly.
• The best way to handle an accident with an adult film is to know what you will do before it ever happens.
• A chatbot is only words on a screen; it has no hands, and robots that handle things are a much harder problem.
• Some films use real controlled explosions, handled only by licensed experts with strict safety rules, while others add explosions by computer.
• Many berries are poisonous to people even though birds can eat them, because birds' bodies handle some poisons differently.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «handle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.