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Coving vs Coping - What's the difference?

coving | coping |

As nouns the difference between coving and coping

is that coving is a concave surface, often of gypsum or Expanded polystyrene (EPS), forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall while coping is the top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

As a verb coping is

present participle of lang=en.

coving

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A concave surface, often of gypsum or Expanded polystyrene (EPS), forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
    • See also crown molding.
  • * 2005' : The gilt lantern burned palely in the stairwell, but in the dining room the ordinary shadows deepened in the corners and hung like smoke in the '''coving of the ceiling. - , (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 429)

    • 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)