"handling" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈhændlɪŋ/ Audio: En-us-handling.ogg [US] Forms: handlings [plural]
Rhymes: -ændl̩ɪŋ, -ændlɪŋ Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|handlinge}} Middle English handlinge, {{m|enm|hondlunge}} hondlunge, {{inh|en|ang|handlung||handling}} Old English handlung (“handling”), {{suffix|en|handle|ing}} handle + -ing, {{cog|nl|handeling||trade, operation, action}} Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), {{cog|de|Handlung||act, action}} German Handlung (“act, action”), {{cog|sv|handling||act, deed, action}} Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (touching, controlling, managing with the hands): χειρισμός (kheirismós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), манипулиране (manipulirane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), manipulació (Catalan), 處理 (Chinese Mandarin), 处理 (chǔlǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), käsittely (Finnish), manipulation [feminine] (French), maniement [masculine] (French), Bedienung [feminine] (German), Handhabung [feminine] (German), Umgang [masculine] (German), Handling [neuter] (German), kézbevétel (Hungarian), kézben tartás (Hungarian), kézbe fogás (Hungarian), kezelés (Hungarian), bánásmód (Hungarian), glacadh [masculine] (Irish), gestione [feminine] (Italian), manipolazione [feminine] (Italian), 取り扱い (toriatsukai) (alt: とりあつかい) (Japanese), tractātiō [feminine] (Latin), കൈകാര്യം (kaikāryaṁ) (Malayalam), håndtering [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), handtering [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), handtering [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), دستزدن (Persian), کیاستن (Persian), manuseio [masculine] (Portuguese), manejo [masculine] (Portuguese), обрабо́тка (obrabótka) (english: processing) [feminine] (Russian), манипули́рование (manipulírovanije) (english: manipulation) [neuter] (Russian), обслу́живание (obslúživanije) (english: servicing) [neuter] (Russian), обхожде́ние (obxoždénije) (english: treatment) [neuter] (Russian), обраще́ние (obraščénije) (english: treatment) [neuter] (Russian), manipulación [feminine] (Spanish), manejo [masculine] (Spanish), hantering (Swedish), ẹruote (Urhobo)
    Sense id: en-handling-en-noun-hJtVAYbK Disambiguation of 'touching, controlling, managing with the hands': 85 2 5 8
  2. (obsolete) The mechanism for handling or manipulating something. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-handling-en-noun-j6gAAMER
  3. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Art
    Sense id: en-handling-en-noun-7~JiqhM7 Topics: art, arts
  4. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (criminal offence): ricelo (Esperanto), varastetun tavaran kauppa (Finnish), Hehlerei [feminine] (German), ricettazione [feminine] (Italian), paserstwo [neuter] (Polish), alcahuetería [feminine] (Spanish), receptación [feminine] (Spanish), encubrimiento [masculine] (Spanish), häleri (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-handling-en-noun-ojW9XeYh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 8 1 40 31 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 27 10 6 57 Disambiguation of 'criminal offence': 9 3 1 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: double-handling, materials handling, puck-handling, puck handling, request-handling, shipping and handling Related terms: handling charge, handling fee
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈhændlɪŋ/ Audio: En-us-handling.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ændl̩ɪŋ, -ændlɪŋ Etymology: From handle. Etymology templates: {{m|en|handle}} handle Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} handling
  1. present participle and gerund of handle Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: handle
    Sense id: en-handling-en-verb-m3cZBC3F
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives\n[…] 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."
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          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "word": "kezelés"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "word": "bánásmód"
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "glacadh"
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          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
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          "word": "gestione"
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          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
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          "alt": "とりあつかい",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "toriatsukai",
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          "word": "取り扱い"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "tractātiō"
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          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "kaikāryaṁ",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "word": "കൈകാര്യം"
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          "word": "håndtering"
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          "word": "دستزدن"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "word": "کیاستن"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "manuseio"
        },
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          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "manejo"
        },
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          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "processing",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obrabótka",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "обрабо́тка"
        },
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          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "manipulation",
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          "roman": "manipulírovanije",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "манипули́рование"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "servicing",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obslúživanije",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "обслу́живание"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "treatment",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obxoždénije",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "обхожде́ние"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "treatment",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obraščénije",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "обраще́ние"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "manipulación"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "manejo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 2 5 8",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "word": "hantering"
        },
        {
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          "code": "urh",
          "lang": "Urhobo",
          "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
          "word": "ẹruote"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods."
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          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "word": "ricelo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "word": "varastetun tavaran kauppa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Hehlerei"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ricettazione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "paserstwo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "alcahuetería"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "receptación"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "encubrimiento"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 3 1 87",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "criminal offence",
          "word": "häleri"
        }
      ]
    }
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈhændlɪŋ/"
    },
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      "word": "處理"
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      "word": "处理"
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      "word": "käsittely"
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "Bedienung"
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      "code": "grc",
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      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
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      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
      "word": "kézbevétel"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "kézben tartás"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "kézbe fogás"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "kezelés"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "bánásmód"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "word": "glacadh"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "gestione"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
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      "word": "取り扱い"
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      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
      "word": "കൈകാര്യം"
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      "code": "nn",
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      "code": "fa",
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      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
      "word": "دستزدن"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
      "word": "کیاستن"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
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      "word": "manuseio"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
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      "word": "manejo"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "obrabótka",
      "sense": "touching, controlling, managing with the hands",
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      "word": "обрабо́тка"
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      "word": "обслу́живание"
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      "word": "обхожде́ние"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "обраще́ние"
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      "code": "es",
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        "feminine"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "criminal offence",
      "word": "ricelo"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "criminal offence",
      "word": "varastetun tavaran kauppa"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "criminal offence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hehlerei"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "criminal offence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ricettazione"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "criminal offence",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "criminal offence",
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      "word": "alcahuetería"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "criminal offence",
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      "word": "receptación"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "criminal offence",
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      "word": "encubrimiento"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "criminal offence",
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