Lexic.us

Definition of Handler

1. Noun. One who trains or exhibits animals.

2. Noun. An agent who handles something or someone. "The senator's campaign handlers"

3. Noun. (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.

Definition of Handler

1. Noun. (literally) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone. ¹

2. Noun. (context: in combination) A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter), which can be specified in a combination ¹

3. Noun. (computing) A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Handler

1. one that handles [n -S] - See also: handles

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handler

handle-bars handle with kid gloves handleability handleable handlebar handlebar moustache handlebar moustaches handlebar mustache handlebar mustaches handlebars

handlebodies handlebody handled handled the ball handleless handler (current term) handlers handles handless handlike

handline handling handling (psychology) handling charge handling cost handlings handlist handlists handlock handloom

Literary usage of Handler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (1994)
"Deciding which dog to assign to which handler is more art than science. Some assessment of size (the larger dog goes to the larger handler) and home ..."

2. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
"I called special attention to the importance of large enough handler vats so that the young leather would have fair opportunity at the start for beginning ..."

3. The Leather Manufacture in the United States: A Dissertation on the Methods by Jackson Smith Schultz, Theron Skeel (1876)
"THE HAND REEL THE ROCKER handler ITS CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION—IMMERSED ... The most generally approved methods are a "hand reel" and the "rocker handler. ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"This method, however, requires a deli- . cate balance and a careful operator; in fact, rather more skill than an ordinary metal-handler possesses. ..."

5. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"andel butter trade, -handler dealer in butter, utter-man. . -pot. ... handel smuggling el. contraband trade, -handler smuggler, ..."

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