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Coping vs Handling - What's the difference?

coping | handling |

As nouns the difference between coping and handling

is that coping is the top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water while handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.

As verbs the difference between coping and handling

is that coping is present participle of lang=en while handling is present participle of lang=en.

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)
  • handling

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) handlinge, hondlunge, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
  • * Edmund Spenser
  • The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
  • * 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.
  • (arts) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
  • (Fairholt)
  • A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
  • Etymology 2

    From handle.

    Verb

    (head)
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