Tending vs Handling - What's the difference?
tending | handling |
Action of the verb to tend .
* 1970 , R. Grathoff, The Structure of Social Inconsistencies
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 nouns the difference between tending and handling
is that tending is action of the verb to tend 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 tending and handling
is that tending is while handling is .tending
English
Noun
(en noun)- In other words, the mutual tendings of all individuals in a given situation toward each other and'' toward a common object can be apprehended ''in toto by each actor.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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)
