different between coping vs handling

English

Noun

coping (plural copings)

1. (architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
2. (psychology) The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
3. (falconry) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

Translations

Verb

coping

1. present participle of cope

Anagrams

• picong

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hændl???/, /?hændl??/
• Hyphenation: hand?ling

Etymology 1

From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).

Noun

handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)

1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
   • 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives

     […] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.

2. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

3. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

Derived terms

• double-handling
• request-handling

Related terms

• handling charge
• handling fee

Translations

Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

1. present participle of handle

Danish

Noun

handling

1. action, act

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From handle +? -ing

Noun

handling f or m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• voldshandling

References

• “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From handle +? -ing

Noun

handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• valdshandling

References

• “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

handla +? -ing

Pronunciation

Noun

handling c

1. an act, a deed
2. an act, a document
3. action
4. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
5. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Declension

Derived terms

• terrorhandling