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coping

coping noun: the top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water. Also the present participle and gerund of cope.

Noun

coping (countable and uncountable, plural copings)

  1. The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
    • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy)...
    • 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.1922, Sinclair Lewis, “28”, in Babbitt
  2. 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. The process of clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

Also used as

coping is also the present participle and gerund of cope.

coping meaning in Telugu

coping in Telugu

ఎదుర్కోవడం

Examples of coping in a sentence

  • When he starts ruminating like that, try to redirect him to use his coping skills.
  • The expression "it is what it is" began as counsel about coping.
  • “At the moment, our army is fully coping with the offensives of Russian soldiers and equipment.”

All 32 example sentences with coping

Forms of coping

pluralcopings

Plural of coping: copings

Origin of coping

From cope + -ing. The sense referring to a brick wall is cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."

Words formed from coping

Phrases with coping

Questions about coping

What does coping mean?
Coping means the top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
What is coping in Telugu?
Coping in Telugu is ఎదుర్కోవడం. See Coping meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is coping?
Coping is a noun.
What is the plural of coping?
The plural of coping is copings.

Words near coping in the dictionary

  1. copiloting
  2. copilots
  3. copin
  4. copine
  5. copines
  6. coping
  7. coping mechanism
  8. coping mechanisms
  9. coping saw
  10. coping saws
  11. coping stone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coping (page history and authors); coping (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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