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Coping vs Copying - What's the difference?

coping | copying |

As verbs the difference between copying and coping

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

As nouns the difference between copying and coping

is that copying is an instance of the making of a copy while coping is the top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

coping

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • copying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (countable) an instance of the making of a copy
  • (uncountable) the practice of making one or more copies