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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Handle \Han"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Handled}; p. pr & vb n. {Handling} .] [OE. handlen, AS handian akin to D. handelen to trade G. handeln. See {Hand}.] 1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh. --Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things --Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often to manage skillfully. That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper. --Shak. 3. To accustom to the hand; to work upon or take care of with the hands. The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts six months every year. --Sir W. Temple. 4. 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. 5. To deal with to make a business of They that handle the law knew me not --Jer. ii 8. 6. To treat; to use well or ill. How wert thou handled being prisoner. --Shak. 7. To manage; to control; to practice skill upon You shall see how I will handle her --Shak. 8. To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection. We will handle what persons are apt to envy others --Bacon. {To handle without gloves}. See under {Glove}. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Handle \Han"dle\, v. i. To use the hands. They have hands, but they handle not --Ps. cxv. 7. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Handle \Han"dle\, n. [AS. handle. See {Hand}.] 1. 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 2. That of which use is made the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool. --South. {To give a handle}, to furnish an occasion or means From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: handle n : the part of an object designed to be held in order to use or move it [syn: {grip}, {handgrip}, {hold}] v 1: be in charge of act on or dispose of "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old" [syn: {manage}, {deal}, {care}] 2: interact in a certain way "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please" [syn: {treat}, {do by}] 3: deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization" [syn: {cover}, {treat}, {work}, {plow}, {deal}, {address}] 4: touch, lift, or hold with the hands [syn: {palm}] 5: handle effectively; "The burglar wielded an axe" [syn: {wield}] 6: hold and move repeatedly From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: handle n. 1. [from CB slang] An electronic pseudonym; a `nom de guerre' intended to conceal the user's true identity. Network and BBS handles function as the same sort of simultaneous concealment and display one finds on Citizen's Band radio, from which the term was adopted. Use of grandiose handles is characteristic of {warez d00dz}, {cracker}s, {weenie}s, {spod}s, and other lower forms of network life; true hackers travel on their own reputations rather than invented legendry. Compare {nick}, {screen name}. 2. A {magic cookie}, often in the form of a numeric index into some array somewhere, through which you can manipulate an object like a file or window. The form `file handle' is especially common. 3. [Mac] A pointer to a pointer to dynamically-allocated memory; the extra level of indirection allows on-the-fly memory compaction (to cut down on fragmentation) or aging out of unused resources, with minimal impact on the (possibly multiple) parts of the larger program containing references to the allocated memory. Compare {snap} (to snap a handle would defeat its purpose); see also {aliasing bug}, {dangling pointer}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: handle 1.(From Citizen's Band amateur radio slang) An electronic pseudonym or "nom de guerre" intended to conceal the user's true identity. Network and BBS handles function as the same sort of simultaneous concealment and display one finds on CB Use of grandiose handles is characteristic of {cracker}s, {weenie}s, {spod}s, and other lower forms of network life; true hackers travel on their own reputations rather than invented legendry. Compare {nick}. 2. (Macintosh) A pointer to a pointer to dynamically-allocated memory. The extra level of indirection allows on-the-fly memory compaction (to cut down on {fragmentation}) or garbage collection of unused resources, with minimal impact on the (possibly multiple) parts of the larger program containing references to the allocated memory. Compare {snap} (to snap a handle would defeat its purpose). See also {aliasing bug}, {dangling pointer}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-28)
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