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Holding vs Handling - What's the difference?

holding | handling |

As nouns the difference between holding and handling

is that holding is something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds while handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.

As verbs the difference between holding and handling

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

As a proper noun Holding

is {{surname|lang=de}.

holding

English

Noun

(wikipedia holding) (en noun)
  • Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
  • * 2009 , The Economist, Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures
    • Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
  • A determination of law made by a court.
  • A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
  • * 1596 , , V. i. 3:
    • Take again / From this my hand, as holding of the Pope / Your sovereign greatness and authority.
  • (obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.
    • (Burke)
  • (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
  • * 1598 , , IV. ii. 27:
    • This has no holding , / To swear by him whom I protest to love / That I will work against him.
  • (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
  • * 1598 , , II. vii. 109:
    • Make battery to our ears with the loud music; / The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. / The holding every man shall beat as loud / As his strong sides can volley.

    Coordinate terms

    * (determination) finding

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,

    Derived terms

    * holding the ball * holding the cards * holding the man * inholding

    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)
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