[2.] a. {intransitive} To deal with some matter in speech or writing; to discourse. (In quot. 1517   transf. of pictorial representation.) Const. of, formerly also on, upon    What are the similarities and differences? Which definition of  fits? Is of a preposition or a particle?   I encountered this verb phrase below, but notice that the quoted clause with the bold originates from OED's entry on the suffix .           word-forming element meaning "a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science," from Greek -logia (often via French -logie or Medieval Latin -logia), from root of legein "to speak;"  thus, "the character or deportment of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject);" see  (n.).
What does the word treats mean in this context? I don't think it means entertainment, food, drink etc.. Maybe it is an old usage of this word? Does it mean influencing factors or something like that?  This is the first part of the title of the first chapter of the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens. The whole title reads:     Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth
In Avengers: Infinity War, up until Thanos      gets all six Stones   in order to use the Gauntlet he needs to close his fist, as we see in the fight scene on Titan.     Doctor Strange: "Don't let him close his fist!"   So why later does snapping work? How to install World of Warcraft? In a ring $(A,+, \cdot)$ if $aba = a$ then $bab = b$ and all non zero elements in $A$ are invertible. Detecting the system DPI/PPI from JS/CSS? I'm working on a kind of unique app which needs to generate images at specific resolutions according to the device they are displayed on. So the output is different on a regular Windows browser (96ppi), iPhone (163ppi), Android G1 (180ppi), and other devices. I'm wondering if there's a way to detect this automatically.  My initial research seems to say no. The only suggestion I've seen is to make an element whose width is specified as "1in" in CSS, then check its offsetWidth (see also ). Makes sense, but iPhone is lying to me with that technique, saying it's 96ppi.  Another approach might be to get the dimensions of the display in inches and then divide by the width in pixels, but I'm not sure how to do that either. Interesting property of finite integer sequence with sum 1 Ubuntu 16.04 software center doesn't have many apps Remove space around tikz Why can Naruto still use Rasenshuriken? When Naruto first used Rasenshuriken against Kakuzu the effect was massive. He destroyed   two of Kakuzu's hearts, but there were a huge after effect to him. If I'm not mistaken, Tsunade advised Kakashi to ask Naruto never to use the technique again due to the huge risk. So why is Naruto still able to use the technique and have no side effects after that battle? I may have missed out on something. has anybody been successful getting pandas to work with QGIS's Python installation, on Windows? I've used the OSGeo4W installer to install QGIS2.2, which comes with Python 2.7 and Numpy 1.5.1. Any reasonably new version of pandas requires Numpy 1.6.1 or newer. So that seems like my main problem. I've tried: - Building an older version of pandas (e.g. 0.7.3 and 0.4.1) using easy_install, but that gives me a very long list of errors, at least the last of which are related to distutils\msvc9compiler.py - Using binaries of old pandas versions, but they are all built for Numpy 1.6.1 - Upgrading Numpy, which also gives me an error message. In case anybody is interested, the message ends with "File “C:\OSGeo4W\apps\Python27\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py”, line 299, in query_vcvarsall” newline “raise ValueERror(str(list(result.keys())))” newline “ValueError: [u’path’]"  I'm wondering if anybody else has ever been successful in getting pandas to work with a QGIS install on Windows??  It would be so easy if QGIS would ship with, say, a version of Numpy that's less than three years old. Does anybody know if such an upgrade is in the works for upcoming QGIS versions? In English, I sometimes hear a phrase like green is the new black.  Literally, this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.  What does it mean when someone says X is the new Y, when this makes no sense when taken literally?   gives plenty of examples:          I've found definitions online for specific examples, such as , but overall I don't understand what X is the new Y means, and I can't find it explained anywhere.  What does X is the new Y mean?  As far as I'm aware, this phrase exists only in English. How to remove all files and subdirectories in a directory WITHOUT deleting the directory in bash? Is there a command to remove all files and subdirectories in a directory without deleting the directory?  For example if I have directory dontDeleteMe with subdirectories 1, 2, 3 and each subdirectory has a few pictures in it, how can I remove the subdirectories 1, 2, and 3 and all the files in the them, without removing the parent directory dontDeleteMe? How to access object attribute given string corresponding to name of that attribute Young Adult Fantasy about children living with an elderly woman and learning magic related to their skills How to capture text from the operating system in a practical and simple way? Sometimes we can't select the text to copy &amp; paste, such as dialog boxes.  Sometimes it's just not practical, such as 100 files inside a folder.  Is there any practical and simple way to capture those text from the system into a text file?  I'd wish to know both in OS X and Windows. Maybe it just can't be done today... Is Ubuntu compatible with my hardware? Move partition data with dd to the right Why can't I find the Karin Kuruma? C++ preprocessor __VA_ARGS__ number of arguments Getting disk i/o statistics for single process in Linux Construct a Borel set on R such that it intersect every open interval with non-zero non-"full" measure