TREATMENT

treatment, intervention

(noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

treatment, handling

(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”

treatment

(noun) a manner of dealing with something artistically; “his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture”

discussion, treatment, discourse

(noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; “the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic”; “his treatment of the race question is badly biased”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)

The process or manner of treating someone or something.

Medical care for an illness or injury.

The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.

(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.

(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.

(obsolete) entertainment; treat

• Alexander Pope

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary


Treat"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. traitement. See Treat.]

1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.] Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

27 October 2024

ACQUITTED

(adjective) declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless; “he stands acquitted on all charges”; “the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity”


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