handling
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US): (file)
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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
handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)
- 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.
- Edmund Spenser
- (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
- A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
touching, controlling, managing with the hands
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criminal offence
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Etymology 2
From handle.
Verb
handling
Danish
Noun
handling
Declension
Declension of handling
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | handling | handlingen | handlinger | handlingerne |
genitive | handlings | handlingens | handlingers | handlingernes |
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
handling f or m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)
- an act, deed
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Derived terms
References
- “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)
- an act, deed
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Derived terms
References
- “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From the verb handla
Pronunciation
audio: (file)
Noun
handling c
- an act, a deed
- an act, a document
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Declension
Declension of handling | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | handling | handlingen | handlingar | handlingarna |
Genitive | handlings | handlingens | handlingars | handlingarnas |
Derived terms
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