coping

English

Etymology

From cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."

Noun

coping (plural copings)

1. (architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “28”, in Babbitt:

     He stood a moment at the coping, looking over a land of hard little bungalows with abnormally large porches, and new apartment-houses, small, but brave with variegated brick walls and terra-cotta trimmings.

2. (psychology) The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
3. (falconry) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

Derived terms

• coping mechanism
• coping strategy

 

Translations

The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water

• Italian: capezzata f, cimasa (it) f, copertina (it) f

the process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.

• Dutch: coping (nl) f
• Spanish: afrontamiento (es) m
• Ukrainian: о́пір m (ópir), протистоя́ння n (protystojánnja)

Verb

coping

1. present participle and gerund of cope

Anagrams

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