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Handling vs Gripping - What's the difference?

handling | gripping |

As nouns the difference between handling and gripping

is that handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands while gripping is obsolete form of lang=en pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

As verbs the difference between handling and gripping

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

As an adjective gripping is

catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

handling

English

(wikipedia 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)
    • ----

    gripping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
  • * 1727 , Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
    • The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite