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Handling vs Tactics - What's the difference?

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Handling is a related term of tactics.


As nouns the difference between handling and tactics

is that handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands while tactics is (military) the military science that deals with achieving the objectives set by strategy.

As a verb handling

is .

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)
  • ----

    tactics

    Alternative forms

    * tacticks (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (military) The military science that deals with achieving the objectives set by strategy.
  • (military) Manoeuvres used against an enemy.
  • (military) The employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each otherJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006)..
  • English plurals
  • Derived terms

    * military tactics

    References