Handled vs Handling - What's the difference?
handled | handling |
(handle)
Having a specified number or kind of handles.
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 verbs the difference between handled and handling
is that handled is past tense of handle while handling is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective handled
is having a specified number or kind of handles.As a noun handling is
a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.handled
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- a two-handled drinking cup
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)