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Coping vs Handing - What's the difference?

coping | handing |

As nouns the difference between coping and handing

is that coping is (lb) the top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water while handing is the act by which something is handed to somebody.

As verbs the difference between coping and handing

is that coping is while handing is .

coping

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) 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.
  • (lb) 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.
  • (lb) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • handing

    English

    (wikipedia handing)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is handed to somebody.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued