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Handling vs Managing - What's the difference?

handling | managing |

As nouns the difference between handling and managing

is that handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands while managing is management.

As verbs the difference between handling and managing

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

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)
    • ----

    managing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • management
  • * (Francis Bacon)