handling

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English

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

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

From handle.

Verb

handling

  1. present participle and gerund of handle

Danish

Noun

handling

  1. action, act

Declension

Declension of handling
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative handling handlingen handlinger handlingerne
genitive handlings handlingens handlingers handlingernes

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing.

Noun

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

Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing.

Noun

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

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English handling.

Noun

handling n (uncountable)

  1. baggage handling in the airport

Declension

declension of handling (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) handling handlingul
genitive/dative (unui) handling handlingului
vocative handlingule

References

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

Swedish

Etymology

handla +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of handling 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative handling handlingen handlingar handlingarna
Genitive handlings handlingens handlingars handlingarnas

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