Handling vs Attending - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between handling and attending

is that handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands while attending is (us) a physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.

As verbs the difference between handling and attending

is that handling is while attending is .

As an adjective attending is

that.

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)

----

attending

English

Adjective

(-)

That .

Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.

Noun

(en noun)

(US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 11, author=, title=Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships, work=New York Times citation

, passage=All too often when taking a history, residents and attendings in a hurry will simply use the cut-and-paste function to save time and bypass asking potentially important questions that have been asked before.}}

Verb

(head)