'Treatment' definitions:
Definition of 'treatment'
From: WordNet
noun
Care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) [syn: treatment, intervention]
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" [syn: treatment, handling]
noun
A manner of dealing with something artistically; "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
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" [syn: discussion, treatment, discourse]
Definition of 'Treatment'
From: GCIDE
- Treatment \Treat"ment\, n. [Cf. F. traitement. See Treat.]
- 1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Accept such treatment as a swain affords. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'treatment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airing,
- analysis,
- arrangement,
- article,
- atmosphere,
- balance,
- basic training,
- briefing,
- brushwork,
- buzz session,
- canvassing,
- care,
- causerie,
- clearing the decks,
- colloquium,
- color,
- composition,
- conference,
- consideration,
- curative measures,
- cure,
- curing,
- custodianship,
- debate,
- debating,
- deliberation,
- descant,
- design,
- dialectic,
- dialogue,
- discourse,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- draftsmanship,
- equipment,
- essay,
- etude,
- examination,
- exchange of views,
- excursus,
- exposition,
- familiarization,
- feature,
- first aid,
- first approach,
- fixing,
- forum,
- foundation,
- groundwork,
- grouping,
- handling,
- healing,
- healing arts,
- homily,
- hospitalization,
- introductory study,
- investigation,
- joint discussion,
- line,
- logical analysis,
- logical discussion,
- lucubration,
- makeready,
- making ready,
- management,
- manufacture,
- means of dealing,
- medical care,
- medical treatment,
- medicamentation,
- medication,
- medicines,
- memoir,
- mobilization,
- monograph,
- morceau,
- note,
- open discussion,
- open forum,
- outline,
- painterliness,
- pandect,
- panel discussion,
- paper,
- paragraph,
- perspective,
- piece,
- planning,
- prearrangement,
- preliminaries,
- preliminary,
- preliminary act,
- preliminary step,
- preliminary study,
- prep,
- preparation,
- preparatory study,
- preparing,
- prepping,
- prerequisite,
- pretreatment,
- processing,
- prolegomenon,
- propaedeutic,
- provision,
- psychotherapy,
- rap,
- rap session,
- readying,
- regime,
- regimen,
- research paper,
- review,
- screed,
- seminar,
- shading,
- shadow,
- sketch,
- spadework,
- special article,
- stewardship,
- study,
- survey,
- symposium,
- technique,
- term paper,
- theme,
- therapeusis,
- therapeutics,
- therapy,
- thesis,
- tone,
- town meeting,
- tract,
- tractate,
- training,
- treatise,
- trial,
- tryout,
- usage,
- values,
- ventilation,
- warm-up