Planning vs Handling - What's the difference?
planning | handling |
(uncountable) action of the verb to plan
the act of formulating of a course of action, or of drawing up plans
the act of making contingency plans
(informal, British) planning permission
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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As verbs the difference between planning and handling
is that planning is while handling is .As nouns the difference between planning and handling
is that planning is (uncountable) action of the verb to plan while handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.planning
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- My neighbours were going to build an extension but they didn't get planning .
Usage notes
Planning is a context-based. It may function as a gerund or verb in a participle, but care must be taken to avoid misuse with 'plan'. Planning is almost never used in the plural, especially by native speakers. It sometimes appears in print, often in translated works especially in politics and management fields.Derived terms
* family planning * life planning * macroplanning * microplanning * planning permission * vacation planningExternal links
* (wikipedia "planning")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)