If you've been working hard and living thriftily for months on end, give yourself a treat: take the night off and go out to dinner and a movie.
To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward;
Noun
an occurrence that cause special pleasure or delight
Noun
something considered choice to eat
Verb
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"
Verb
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"
Verb
regard or consider in a specific way; "I treated his advances as a joke"
Verb
engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement; "they had to treat with the King"
Verb
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"
Verb
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"
Verb
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"
Verb
interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"
v. t.
To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward;
as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
v. t.
To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in
writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.
v. t.
To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter,
as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to
treat the whole company.
v. t.
To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for.
v. t.
To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the
use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a
patient.
v. t.
To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to
treat a substance with sulphuric acid.
v. t.
To entreat; to beseech.
v. i.
To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking;
to make discussion; -- usually with of; as, Cicero treats of old age
and of duties.
v. i.
To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; -- often
followed by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France.
v. i.
To give a gratuitous entertainment, esp. of food or
drink, as a compliment.
n.
A parley; a conference.
n.
An entertainment given as an expression of regard.
n.
That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a
satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat.
Treat
To treat the peace, a hundred senators Shall be commissioned.5.
Treat
And, shortly of this story for to treat.
Now of love they treat.2.
Inform us, will the emperor treat!3.
Treat
Bid him battle without further treat.2.
To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward;
To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to make discussion; -- usually with of;
A parley; a conference.
Usage Examples
Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
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Other Usage ExamplesAnd regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.