handling

English

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handling

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈhændlɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• 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, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.

   baggage handling

   • 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.

Derived terms

• antihandling
• ballhandling
• double-handling
• ground handling
• handling charge
• handling fee
• handling time
• material handling
• materials handling
• puck-handling
• puck handling
• request-handling
• shiphandling
• shipping and handling
• special handling unit

Translations

touching, controlling, managing with the hands

Bulgarian: манипулиране (bg) n (manipulirane) Catalan: manipulació (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 處理 / 处理 (zh) (chǔlǐ) Danish: håndtering c Finnish: käsittely (fi) French: manipulation (fr) f, maniement (fr) m German: Bedienung (de) f, Handhabung (de) f, Umgang (de) m, Handling (de) n Greek: Ancient: χειρισμός m (kheirismós) Hungarian: kézbevétel (hu), kézben tartás, kézbe fogás, kezelés (hu), bánásmód (hu) Indonesian: penanganan (id) Irish: glacadh m Italian: gestione (it) f, manipolazione (it) f Japanese: 取り扱い (ja) (とりあつかい, toriatsukai) Latin: tractātiō f Malay: pengelolaan Malayalam: കൈകാര്യം (ml) (kaikāryaṁ) Norwegian: Bokmål: håndtering m or f, handtering m or f Nynorsk: handtering f Persian: دستزدن (fa), کیاستن Portuguese: manuseio (pt) m, manejo (pt) m Russian: обрабо́тка (ru) f (obrabótka) (processing), манипули́рование (ru) n (manipulírovanije) (manipulation), обслу́живание (ru) n (obslúživanije) (servicing), обхожде́ние (ru) n (obxoždénije) (treatment), обраще́ние (ru) n (obraščénije) (treatment) Spanish: manipulación (es) f, manejo (es) m, conducción (es) f Swedish: hantering (sv) Urhobo: ẹruote

criminal offence

Esperanto: ricelo Finnish: varastetun tavaran kauppa German: Hehlerei (de) f Italian: ricettazione (it) f Polish: paserstwo (pl) n Spanish: alcahuetería (es) f, receptación f, encubrimiento (es) m Swedish: häleri (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Portuguese: manejo (pt) m

Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

1. present participle and gerund of handle

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

handling

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing.

Noun

handling c (singular definite handlingen, plural indefinite handlinger)

1. action, act

   Coordinate term: gerning

2. the plot, storyline (of a movie etc.)

Declension

Declension of handling

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	handling	handlingen	handlinger	handlingerne
genitive	handlings	handlingens	handlingers	handlingernes

Derived terms

• handlingsmulighed
• handlingsmæssig
• handlingsmønster
• kamphandling
• retshandling
• terrorhandling
• valghandling
• voldshandling

References

• “handling” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

handling

Wikipedia ^no

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

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• voldshandling

References

• “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• valdshandling

References

• “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English handling.

Noun

handling n (uncountable)

1. baggage handling in the airport

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	handling	handlingul
genitive-dative	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

• Audio:

  (file)

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	handling	handlings
	definite	handlingen	handlingens
plural	indefinite	handlingar	handlingars
	definite	handlingarna	handlingarnas

Derived terms

• terrorhandling