handling

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈhændlɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ændl̩ɪŋ, -ændlɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: hand‧ling

Etymology 1

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From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (handling), equivalent to handle +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (trade, operation, action), German Handlung (act, action), Swedish handling (act, deed, action).

Noun

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handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)

  1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28:
      the heauens, and your faire handeling / Haue made you maister 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.
  2. (obsolete) The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
    • 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
      In mortal terror of people forcing an entrance at such an hour, and in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their purpose, I would have turned to fly when first I heard the noise, only that I feared by any quick motion to catch their attention, as I also ran the danger of doing by opening the door, which was all but closed, and to whose handlings I was unaccustomed.
  3. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
    • 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Critical Reviews:
      A miniature [] remarkable for its brilliancy of colour and charming freedom of handling.
  4. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
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Etymology 2

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From handle.

Verb

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handling

  1. present participle and gerund of handle

Danish

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Noun

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handling

  1. action, act

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From handle +‎ -ing.

Noun

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handling f or m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)

  1. an act, deed
  2. action
  3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From handle +‎ -ing.

Noun

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handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)

  1. an act, deed
  2. action
  3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English handling.

Noun

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handling n (uncountable)

  1. baggage handling in the airport

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References

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  • handling in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

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Etymology

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handla +‎ -ing

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Noun

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handling c

  1. an act, a deed
  2. an act, a document
  3. action
  4. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  5. shopping; the action of visiting shops

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