Coping vs Handling - What's the difference?
coping | handling |
(lb) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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*: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.
A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
* Edmund Spenser
* 1864 , Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
(arts) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
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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
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(en noun)Verb
(head)handling
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(wikipedia handling)Etymology 1
From (etyl) handlinge, hondlunge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
- 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.
- (Fairholt)