5 N‑COUNT If you give someone a treat , you buy or arrange something special for them which they will enjoy. □ [+ for ] Lettie had never yet failed to return from town without some special treat for him.
6 N‑SING If you say that something is your treat , you mean that you are paying for it as a treat for someone else. [SPOKEN ]
7 PHRASE If you say, for example, that something looks or works a treat , you mean that it looks very good or works very well. [BRIT , INFORMAL ] □ The first part of the plan works a treat.
8 to treat someone like dirt → see dirt SYNONYMS treat VERB
1
deal with: …the way that building societies deal with complaints.
handle: You must learn how to handle your feelings.
2
minister: For 44 years he had ministered to the poor, the sick, the neglected and the deprived.
cure: An operation finally cured his shin injury.
heaclass="underline" No doctor has ever healed a broken bone: he or she sets them. NOUN 5
luxury: A week by the sea is a luxury they can no longer afford.
indulgence: The car is one of my few indulgences.
treat|able /triː təb ə l/ ADJ A treatable disease is one which can be cured or controlled, usually by the use of drugs. □ This is a treatable condition. □ Depression is treatable.
trea|tise /triː t I z, [AM ] -t I s/ (treatises ) N‑COUNT A treatise is a long, formal piece of writing about a particular subject. □ [+ on ] …Locke's Treatise on Civil Government.
treat|ment ◆◆◇ /triː tmənt/ (treatments )
1 N‑VAR Treatment is medical attention given to a sick or injured person or animal. □ Many patients are not getting the medical treatment they need. □ [+ for ] …an effective treatment for eczema. [Also + of ]
2 N‑UNCOUNT Your treatment of someone is the way you behave towards them or deal with them. □ We don't want any special treatment. [Also + of ]
3 N‑VAR Treatment of something involves putting a particular substance onto or into it, in order to clean it, to protect it, or to give it special properties. □ [+ of ] There should be greater treatment of sewage before it is discharged. □ As with all oily hair treatments, shampoo needs to be applied first.
4 PHRASE If you say that someone is given the full treatment , you mean either that they are treated extremely well or that they are treated extremely severely. [INFORMAL ] □ Make their stay really special by giving them the full treatment. SYNONYMS treatment NOUN 1
medicine: …herbal medicines.
remedy: …natural remedies to help overcome winter infections.
cure: There is still no cure for a cold.
medication: She stopped taking the prescribed medications.
trea|ty ◆◆◇ /triː ti/ (treaties ) N‑COUNT A treaty is a written agreement between countries in which they agree to do a particular thing or to help each other. □ [+ on ] …a global treaty on cutting emissions. SYNONYMS treaty NOUN 1
agreement: The two countries signed an agreement to jointly launch satellites.
pact: Last month he signed a new non-aggression pact with Germany.
contract: The company won a prestigious contract for work on Europe's tallest building.
tre|ble /tre b ə l/ (trebles , trebling , trebled )
1 VERB If something trebles or if you treble it, it becomes three times greater in number or amount than it was. □ [V ] They will have to pay much more when rents treble in January. □ [V n] The city has trebled the number of its prisoners to 21,000. ● tre|bling N‑SING □ [+ of ] A new threat to Bulgaria's stability is the week-old miners' strike for a trebling of minimum pay.
2 PREDET If one thing is treble the size or amount of another thing, it is three times greater in size or amount. □ More than 7 million shares changed hands, treble the normal daily average.
3 N‑COUNT A treble is a boy with a very high singing voice.
4 N‑COUNT In sport, a treble is three successes one after the other, for example winning three horse races on the same day, or winning three competitions in the same season. [mainly BRIT , JOURNALISM ] □ The win completed a treble for them–they already claimed a league and cup double this year.
tree ◆◆◇ /triː / (trees )
1 N‑COUNT [oft n N ] A tree is a tall plant that has a hard trunk, branches, and leaves. □ I planted those apple trees. □ …a variety of shrubs and trees.
2 → see also Christmas tree , family tree
3 PHRASE [usu cont] If you say that someone is barking up the wrong tree , you mean that they are following the wrong course of action because their beliefs or ideas about something are incorrect. [INFORMAL ] □ Scientists in Switzerland realised that most other researchers had been barking up the wrong tree.
4 PHRASE If someone can't see the wood for the trees in British English, or can't see the forest for the trees in American English, they are very involved in the details of something and so they do not notice what is important about the thing as a whole.