Treatment
['triːtm(ə)nt] or ['tritmənt]
Definition
(noun.) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury).
(noun.) the management of someone or something; 'the handling of prisoners'; 'the treatment of water sewage'; 'the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system'.
(noun.) a manner of dealing with something artistically; 'his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture'.
Typist: Shirley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
(n.) Entertainment; treat.
Typed by Carlyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Usage.[2]. Handling, management.
Inputed by Lawrence
Examples
- These got fairly to work at the beginning of the century, and the uses of machinery spread to the treatment of leather. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- His warm regard, his kind expressions, his confidential treatment, touched her strongly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Summer freckles yield very speedily to this treatment. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Butter already rancid can be improved by treatment with a stronger solution (8 drachms of acid to 1 gallon of water), followed by washing in pure water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Little as I know of the law, I am certain that it can protect a woman from such treatment as that ruffian has inflicted on you to-day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Again, I can make no stipulations with regard to the treatment of citizens and their private property. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had been bitten in the face, and was taking the treatment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the treatment of iron ores, and especially those of low grade, the magnetic concentrator is an interesting and striking departure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The gray came in just after, and thereby prevented any ill treatment which the others might have given me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Political creeds must receive the same treatment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I said, 'You positively refuse to try the stimulant treatment? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The treatment seemed entirely moral and squared very well with the conscience of that community. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My sex owes you every amends for the treatment you received in days gone by. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In his desire for the greatest subjects for his windows and the finest treatment of them, Bernard turned to Italy, the home of the great painters, and copied their works. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There were still some treatments to take before my course at the Ospedale. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Mostly I slept in the mornings, and in the afternoons, sometimes, I went to the races, and late to the mechanotherapy treatments. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was noteworthy that, following the discovery of salvarsan or 606 by Dr. Ehrlich, the quack doctors began to call their treatments 606. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Nat