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Maneuvering vs Handling - What's the difference?

maneuvering | handling |

As verbs the difference between maneuvering and handling

is that maneuvering is (us) while handling is .

As nouns the difference between maneuvering and handling

is that maneuvering is (us|gerund of maneuver) an act in which something or someone maneuvers while handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.

maneuvering

English

Verb

(head)
  • (US)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, gerund of maneuver) An act in which something or someone maneuvers
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    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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