handle

1. 1.

   the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

   “he grabbed the hammer by the handle”

   “it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip”

   Synonymsgriphandgriphold

   Broaderappendage

   Narrowerax handlebroomstickcrophafthilthoe handleknobmop handlepanhandlepommel

   Part ofedge toolhand toolumbrellabaggage

   Partsshank

Other forms of handle

plural

handles·

past tense

handled·

present participle

handling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about handle

What does handle mean?

handle means "be in charge of, act on, or dispose of". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in handle?

handle has 2 syllables: han-dle. The stress falls on "han". In IPA it is /ˈhændəl/.

What is another word for handle?

Close synonyms include manage, deal, care, treat, do by. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is handle a common word?

handle is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with handle?

4 words rhyme with handle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.