Handling vs Working - What's the difference?
handling | working |
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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(usually plural) Operation; action.
Method of operation.
Fermentation.
(of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
That is or are functioning.
That suffices but requires additional work.
In paid employment.
Of or relating to employment.
Enough to allow one to use something.
As nouns the difference between handling and working
is that handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands while working is (usually plural) operation; action.As verbs the difference between handling and working
is that handling is while working is .As an adjective working is
that is or are functioning.handling
English
(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)
Etymology 2
From handle.Verb
(head)working
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) wirking, warking, (etyl) werking, (etyl) Wirkung.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- Leave him alone; he's working .
Adjective
(-)- a working ventilator
- a working copy of the script
- working mothers
- the working week
- a working knowledge of computers