Dictionary Definition
treat
Noun
2 an occurrence that cause special pleasure or
delight
Verb
1 interact in a certain way; "Do right by her";
"Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters
gently" [syn: handle,
do
by]
2 subject to a process or treatment, with the aim
of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition;
"process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be
drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"
[syn: process]
3 provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my
broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient
must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection
with antibiotics" [syn: care for]
4 deal with verbally or in some form of artistic
expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all
of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of
China" [syn: cover,
handle, plow, deal, address]
5 provide with a gift or entertainment;
"Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat
myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed"
6 provide with choice or abundant food or drink;
"Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated
her houseguests with good food every night" [syn: regale]
7 engage in negotiations in order to reach an
agreement; "they had to treat with the King"
8 regard or consider in a specific way; "I
treated his advances as a joke"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Anglo-Norman treter, from Old French tretier (modern traiter), from Latin tractare ‘pull, manage’, from the past participle stem of trahere ‘draw, pull’.Pronunciation
- /tri:t/
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- Rhymes: -iːt
Verb
- To negotiate,
discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
- We treated with Caesar for the surrender of the city.
- To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a
particular way, in writing or speaking.
- The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement.
- To discourse; to
handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
- Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty.
- To entreat or
beseech (someone).
- Only let my family live, I treat thee.
- To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
- You treated me like a fool.
- She was tempted to treat the whole affair as a joke.
- You treated me like a fool.
- To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care
to.
- They treated me for malaria.
- To subject to a specific action; to act upon with a specfic
result in mind.
- The substance was treated with sulphuric acid.
- I treated the photo somewhat to make the colours more pronounced.
- The substance was treated with sulphuric acid.
- To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own
expense; to show hospitality to.
- I treated my son to some popcorn in the interval.
Translations
to discourse, to represent
to entreat or beseech
- Spanish: rogar
to handle, deal with or behave towards in a
specific way
to care for medicinally or surgically
to entertain with food or drink
Noun
- A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
- An entreaty.
- An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by
someone for the enjoyment of others.
- I took the kids to the zoo for a treat.
- An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
- It was such a treat to see her back in action on the London stage.
Extensive Definition
Treat can refer to:
- Treat (band), a Swedish band
- Candy
- Treats, a 1975 play by Christopher Hampton
- Tahitian Treat
- Special Treat
- Taco Treat
- Chicken Treat
- Trick-or-treating
- Round of drinks, treating others to a drink.
- An acronym for the Transient Reactor Test Facility, a nuclear research facility in Idaho.
People
treat in Simple English: Treat
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
act on, act toward, act upon, affect, air, ambrosia, analyze, arrange, attend, bandage, banquet, bathe, behave toward, blow to,
board, bonne bouche,
bonus, boon, canvass, care for, cate, celebration, choice morsel,
clear for action, clear the decks, comment upon, concentrate on,
consider, contend with,
controvert, cope
with, criticize,
critique, cure, dainty, deal by, deal with,
debate, deliberate, deliberate upon,
delicacy, deploy, descant, dessert, diagnose, discourse, discourse about,
discuss, dissert, dissertate, do by, do with,
doctor, dress, entertain, entertainment, examine, exchange views,
explore, favor, feast, feed, festivity, fix, fix up, flux, focus on, freebie, get ready, gift, give care to, go into, go
treat, goody, handle, heal, influence, inquire into,
intern, investigate, joyance, jubilation, kickshaw, knock around, look
after, mad round, maintain, maintenance, make
arrangements, make preparations, make ready, manage, manna, marshal, massage, meal, meat, medicate, merrymaking, mess, minister to, mobilize, morsel, nectar, nurse, operate on, pass under
review, pay for, pay the bill, paying the bills, physic, plan, plaster, poultice, prearrange, premium, prep, prepare, prescribe, prescribe for,
present, pretreat, probe, process, provide, purge, put in shape, rap, ready, ready up, reason, reason about, reason the
point, refection,
refreshment,
regale, regalement, remark upon,
remedy, repas, repast, respond to, revel, revelment, revelry, review, round of pleasures,
rub, savory, scrutinize, set up, settle
preliminaries, sift,
splint, spread, stand drinks, stand to,
stand treat, standing treat, steward, strap, study, subsidize, subsidy, support, survey, table, take out, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk
over, tan, thresh out,
tidbit, titbit, touch on, touch upon,
treat of, treat to, trim,
try out, use, ventilate, wine and dine, work
on, write up