Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that handles or directs something or someone: handlers of food in a restaurant; the candidate's campaign handlers.
- n. One who trains or exhibits an animal, such as a dog.
- n. One who acts as the trainer or second of a boxer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person employed in the transfer or placing of things by hand, or in some special kind of manipulation or management: as, a freight-handler; a handler of dogs or of game-cocks; a handler of fish for propagation (used of one who selects the ripe fish from a catch).
- n. The first bath or pit in a tannery.
- n. In ceramics, a workman who attaches to the bodies of vessels the handles, which have previously been molded in plaster-of-Paris molds. They are fixed by means of slip, and in most kinds of ware adhere immediately, so that the vessel may be lifted by them even before firing.
Wiktionary
- n. literally One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.
- n. in combination A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter), which can be specified in a combination
- n. computing A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. one who trains or exhibits animals.
- n. someone in charge of training an athlete (especially a boxer) or a team.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team
- n. one who trains or exhibits animals
- n. an agent who handles something or someone
Etymologies
- handle + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Posts: 2,474 set the dblclick function normally, but use a timeout to call or cancel the single click handler - var clicktimer; element. onclick = function (e) {e = window. event | | e; if (clicktimer) clearTimeout (clicktimer); else clicktimer = setTimeout (function (e) {/* click handler*/} ,250);}”
“The biggest downside from using a software solution or another login handler is having to visit your personalised PIP page before moving ahead, but that can be a blessing if you can remember your password there but not at, say, Circuit City.”
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“Use teracopy as default copy handler' is selected in the options but if I copy & paste it just uses the standard XP function?”
“The whole point of playing him with another ball handler is to preserve him for late in games, since his dribble penetration requires extreme expenditures of energy.”
“Every major official with the group had a handler from the spy agency, most of them majors, colonels and even a brigadier, he told interrogators, according to the report.”
“Hopefully the dog handler is okay and is back at work soon, if not already.”
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“Clearly the modern police dog handler is a bit of a non job. on September 15, 2008 at 6: 23 pm | Reply Phil”
“An air handler is a large fan system used in large HVAC systems.”
“The langur handler is being paid a retainer of India rupees 6,900 (US$160) a month, and "he will be called whenever there is a monkey problem," Anuj Dayal, the spokesman for the Delhi Metro Rail Corp., was quoted as saying.”
“That's what your ball handler is supposed to do," Stoudamire said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘handler’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
driving, implement, Trot, speed, exhale, dope, obstacle, tail, plow, coloration, para, weaving and 678 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
Monarch
Sci-fi ☠ 509
obedience, isolation, repetition, mengele, false memory synd..., dissociative iden..., access codes, alter, alter fragment, beta, cats, delta and 99 more...
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Sled Dogs!
malamute, husky, wheel dog, lead dog, gee, haw, sled, line, hike, mush, on by, gang line and 31 more...
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The Ghost Writer (2010)
Words from a 2010 'The Ghost Writer' film.
pulp, tether, blip, ramblings, coherent, monastic, leaflet, scrub, gauntlet, accomplice, sod, incite and 18 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu The first of the Century's definitions is also amusing. Dec 12, 2011
hernesheir Sounds like an initiation rite, with hazing. Dec 12, 2011
ruzuzu "2. The first bath or pit in a tannery." --CD&C
Dec 12, 2011