English dictionary
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English noun: treatment | |||
| 1. | treatment (act) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | ||
| Synonyms | intervention | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aid, attention, care, tending | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | acupressure, acupuncture, autogenic therapy, autogenic training, autogenics, chiropractic, detoxification, fomentation, G-Jo, hydropathy, hydrotherapy, massage, medical aid, medical care, modality, naprapathy, naturopathy, orthodontic treatment, orthoptics, osteoclasis, osteopathy, rest-cure, shiatsu, stylostixis | ||
| Part holonym | curative, cure, remedy, therapeutic | ||
| 2. | treatment (act) the management of someone or something | ||
| Samples | The handling of prisoners. The treatment of water sewage. The right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system. | ||
| Synonyms | handling | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | direction, management | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bioremediation, dealing | ||
| 3. | treatment (attribute) a manner of dealing with something artistically | ||
| Samples | His treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | artistic style, idiom | ||
| 4. | treatment (communication) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | ||
| Samples | The book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic. His treatment of the race question is badly biased. | ||
| Synonyms | discourse, discussion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | communicating, communication | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | consideration, detail, dilation, elaboration, enlargement, expansion, talk | ||
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