different between handle vs pat

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?hæn.dl?/
• Hyphenation: han?dle
• Rhymes: -ænd?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English handel, handle, from Old English handle (“a handle”), from handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”). See verb below. Cognate with Danish handel (“a handle”).

Noun

handle (plural handles)

1. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
2. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext.

   • They overturned him to all his interests by the sure but fatal handle of his own good nature.
3. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.

4. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.
5. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
6. (slang) A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.

7. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.

8. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and middy for other regional variations.)
9. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.)
   • 2014, Ray Stoeser, Josh Cuffe, Bury My Body Down By the Highway Side, page 83:

     Josh bought a fifth of Evan Williams for Andrew as a token of gratitude and Ray, because of the financial constraints, purchased the cheapest handle of whiskey he could find: Heaven Hill.

10. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.

11. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional balls.
12. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components in exactly one point.

Hyponyms

• (part of an object held in the hand when used or moved): bail (bucket, kettle, pitcher), haft (tool, weapon), hilt (sword), knob, stail (tool), stilt (plough)

Derived terms

Related terms

• give a handle

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (handoru)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English handlen, from Old English handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”), from Proto-Germanic *handl?n? (“to take, grip, feel”), equivalent to hand +? -le. Cognate with West Frisian hanneljen, hanljen (“to handle, treat”), Dutch handelen (“to handle, deal, act, negotiate”), German handeln (“to act, trade, negotiate, behave”), Swedish handla (“to buy, trade, deal”), Icelandic höndla (“to handle”).

Verb

handle (third-person singular simple present handles, present participle handling, simple past and past participle handled)

1. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).

   • Happy, ye leaves! when as those lilly hands [...] Shall handle you.

   • Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh.
2. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
   • 1679, William Temple, An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland.

     The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts for at least six months every year.

3. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
   • 1976, Mel Hallin Bolster, Crazy Snake and the Smoked Meat Rebellion, page 66

     Light on his feet for a big man, he handled the rifle like a pistol.

4. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
5. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).

6. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Envy

     We will handle what persons are apt to envy others...
7. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.

8. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
9. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
   • 2014, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban ?ISBN:

     For example, a program that loads data from a file needs to handle the case where that file is not found.

10. (intransitive) To use the hands.

    • They [idols made of gold and silver] have hands, but they handle not

11. (soccer, intransitive) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
12. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• hand

Translations

Anagrams

• Dahlen, Handel

Alemannic German

Verb

handle

1. (Uri) to stroke the teats of a dairy cow until they fill with milk

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse handla, h?ndla, from h?nd (“hand”). In the sense trade influenced by from Middle Low German handelen and German handeln.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hanl?/, [?hanl?]

Verb

handle (imperative handl, infinitive at handle, present tense handler, past tense handlede, perfect tense har handlet)

1. act (to do something)
2. trade, shop

German

Verb

handle

1. inflection of handeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse handla and German handeln

Pronunciation

Verb

handle (imperative handl or handle, present tense handler, passive handles, simple past and past participle handla or handlet, present participle handlende)

1. to act (do something)
2. to deal, trade, to do business
3. to shop (visit shops)

Derived terms

• forhandle
• handletur
• handling

References

• “handle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• handla

Etymology

From Old Norse handla and German handeln

Verb

handle (present tense handlar, past tense handla, past participle handla, passive infinitive handlast, present participle handlande, imperative handl)

1. to act (do something)
2. to deal, trade, to do business
3. to shop (visit shops)

Derived terms

• forhandle
• handletur
• handling

References

• “handle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæt/, [p?æt], [p?æt?], [p?æ?t?], enPR: p?t
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b(e)lad-, *b(e)led- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.

Noun

pat (plural pats)

1. The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
2. A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
3. A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.

   • It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.

Derived terms

• pat on the back (n.)
• patter
• pitter-pat: a diminutive of footfalls. "the pitter-pat of little feet running around the house."

Translations

See also

• one one's pat

Verb

pat (third-person singular simple present pats, present participle patting, simple past and past participle patted)

1. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.

   To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.

   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]

     He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.

2. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

     Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.

3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To stroke or fondle (an animal).

4. To gently rain.

Derived terms

• pat down
• pat on the back (v.)

Translations

Adjective

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

1. Timely, suitable, apt, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.
   • 1788, Cowper, Pity for Africans, p 18

     A story so pat, you may think it is coined.

2. Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.
   • 2010, New York Times, Editorial: Jobs and the Class of 2010, May 23.

     The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects.

Derived terms

• pat hand

Adverb

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

1. Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet III.iii

     Now might I do it pat

2. Perfectly.
   • 1922, "At the Wauwatosa Table" (1922 Sept 22), City Club News, Milwaukee, vol viii no. 2 p. 7

     Wauwa Pease says of the strategic position of the Pirates in the dining room: “They have taken the table near the upper doorway so they can make a speedy exit in case their lair is raided.” Of course, the Wauwas stand pat in the middle of the dining room, having nothing to fear.

   • 1962, Newsweek

     Candidates in gubernatorial campaigns must stand pat in the middle, trying to push their rivals off the center line, charging the opponent with either left or right extremism.

   • 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and a Day, p. 112

     In Ogoni[land], Shell locations lie pat in the middle of villages, in front and back gardens – and that should lay a particular responsibility on Shell to be absolutely cautious in its operations.

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

pat (plural pats)

1. Patent.
2. (knitting) Pattern.
   • 2012, Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World (page 52)

     Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder […]

Anagrams

• APT, ATP, PTA, TAP, TPA, ap't, apt, apt., tap

Albanian

Alternative forms

• patur
• pasë
• pasur

Etymology

Alternative variant of participles patur, pasë, pasur. See pata (“I had”) (aorist form of kam (“I have”)) for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat/ (Gheg, Arbëreshë)

Participle

1. participle of kam (present)
2. participle of pata (aorist)

Related terms

• pasuri
• kam
• pata

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• patu
• pãtsãscu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pat(i)?, from Latin patior. Compare Daco-Romanian p??i.

Verb

pat (past participle pãtsitã)

1. I experience, undergo (something bad, unpleasant, unexpected, etc.)

Related terms

• pãtsiri / pãtsire
• pãtsit

Bakung

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Bariai

Noun

pat

1. stone

References

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

Bintulu

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Bunun

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Central Melanau

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Chinese

Chuukese

Adjective

pat

1. cold

Czech

Etymology

Via German Patt and French pat, from Italian patta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat/

Noun

pat m

1. (chess) stalemate
2. stalemate (blocked situation)

Declension

Noun

pat f

1. genitive plural of pata

Further reading

• pat in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pat in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat/, [?p?ad?]

Noun

pat c

1. alternative form of patte (“teat”)

Verb

pat

1. imperative of patte (“to suck”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/
• Hyphenation: pat
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta.

Noun

pat n (uncountable)

1. (chess) tie, draw, stalemate

Derived terms

• patstelling

Etymology 2

Noun

pat c (plural patten, diminutive patje n)

1. (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axle of the wheel; dropout.

Eskayan

Numeral

pat

1. four

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian patta (“tie, draw”), influenced by mat (“mate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat/

Noun

pat m (plural pats)

1. (chess) stalemate

Descendants

• ? German: Patt
• ? Greek: ??? (pat)
• ? Serbo-Croatian: pat
• ? Slovak: pat

Further reading

• “pat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

pat n (genitive singular pats, no plural)

1. gesticulation, gesture

Declension

Related terms

• pata

Anagrams

• apt
• tap

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay pat, shortened form of empat, from Proto-Malayic *?mpat, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *?mpat, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *?mpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. Alternative form of empat

Javanese

Alternative forms

• papat

Etymology

From Old Javanese pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Lamaholot

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Latvian

Particle

pat

1. even

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *patto. Cognates include Estonian patt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?t/

Noun

pat

1. sin

References

• Lauri Kettunen (1938) Livisches Wörterbuch mit grammatischer Einleitung, Helsinki, page 277

Maguindanao

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Maia

Noun

pat

1. stone

Malay

Alternative forms

• empat
• ?mpat
• ampat
• ?mpat
• ?????
• ???

Etymology

Shortened form of empat, from Proto-Malayic *?mpat, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *?mpat, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *?mpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat/
• Rhymes: -pat, -at

Numeral

pat (Jawi spelling ??)

1. Alternative form of empat

Descendants

Manggarai

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Marshallese

Etymology

From Proto-Micronesian *pasa, from Proto-Oceanic *basa, an alternate form of Proto-Oceanic *pasa.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [p??t?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?æt?/
• Bender phonemes: {pat}

Noun

pat

1. swamp

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Old Javanese

Etymology

From from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

From French pat, from Italian patta, from Old High German pfeit, from Proto-Germanic *paid?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat/

Noun

pat m anim

1. (chess) stalemate

Declension

Puyuma

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Rejang Kayan

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Rembong

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

pat

1. four

Romanian

Etymology

Often thought to be from Greek ????? (pátos, “path”), but also possibly from Latin pactum (“fastened, fixed, planted”), with the loss of the -p- in the normal result, *papt, explicable through dissimilation from the initial consonant; compare p?ta, boteza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat/

Noun

pat n (plural paturi)

1. bed

Declension

Related terms

• p?tur?

References

References

• pat in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French pat.

Pronunciation

Noun

pat m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (chess) stalemate

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from French pat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pat/

Noun

pat m (genitive singular patu, nominative plural paty, genitive plural patov, declension pattern of dub)

1. (chess) stalemate

Declension

Derived terms

• patový

Further reading

• pat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Tocharian B

Noun

pat

1. stupa

Volapük

Etymology

From French particularité.

Noun

pat (nominative plural pats)

1. particularity

Declension

Zou

Noun

pat

1. cotton

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf