handler
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English handler, handiller, equivalent to handle + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]handler (plural handlers)
- (literally) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.
- 1984 December 8, Christine Guilfoy, “United Not Friendly To Workers With AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 1:
- Although the airline told them it took such action because they might spread the disease in their capacity as food handlers, neither was offered a transfer to other departments.
- The handler of a weapon gets a symbolic sensation of deadly power.
- (in combination) A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter).
- The spy's handler told him to approach the subject by posing as a dog handler.
- 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- They are also very sympathetic, especially Caesar’s orangutan advisor, Maurice (Karin Konoval), who takes a shine to a human moppet (Amiah Miller) he finds hiding in the back of a shack, and the poignant Bad Ape (a scene-stealing Steve Zahn), a mangy chimp who was beaten so often in his zoo-animal days that he came to believe what his handlers were shouting was supposed to be his name.
- (in combination) An advisor or manager providing guidance to a person occupying public office or a prominent position.
- The governor received guidance on how to best disseminate key information to the public from her handler.
- (programming) A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.
- 2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62:
- If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who handles
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one who handles a specified thing
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]handler c (singular definite handleren, plural indefinite handlere)
- A (financial) trader
Inflection
[edit]Declension of handler
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | handler | handleren | handlere | handlerne |
genitive | handlers | handlerens | handleres | handlernes |
Noun
[edit]handler c
Verb
[edit]handler
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]handler m
Verb
[edit]handler
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English handler.
Noun
[edit]handler m (plural handlers)
- (ultimate frisbee) handler
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