HANDLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handled mean? 

• HANDLED (adjective)
  The adjective HANDLED has 1 sense:

1. having a usually specified type of handle

  Familiarity information: HANDLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a usually specified type of handle

Context example:

pearl-handled revolver

Antonym:

handleless (having no handle)

 Context examples 

NOTE(S): This class is a resolution of the requirement for noting the type of an identifier which is not handled by the purely technical HL7 II data type.

(Biologic Entity Identifier, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Capable of being handled or touched or felt.

(Palpable, NCI Thesaurus)

“That ain't a sort of man to see sitting behind a coach-box, is it though?” said William in my ear, as he handled the reins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A tool consisting of a pair of handled jaws designed for holding and pulling.

(Pincers, NCI Thesaurus)

Each step is handled by different parts of the brain, from the eye’s light-sensing retina to the visual cortex and the superior colliculus.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

Prior work suggests that face processing and color processing are handled by largely separate brain circuits.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual—that’s to say, you handled it fairly well.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I believe I will try it myself," said the Woodman, and shouldering his axe, he marched up to the first tree that had handled the Scarecrow so roughly.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The more fiercely he fought, the more harshly society handled him, and the only effect of harshness was to make him fiercer.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It is usually spread by contact with an infected person’s stool by eating food he or she has handled after not washing hands, but it can be spread in other ways.

(hepatitis A virus, NCI Dictionary)