handling
Syllables: hand·ling/ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/
handling noun: a touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. Also the present participle and gerund of handle.
Noun
handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)
- A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
- baggage handling
- the heauens, and your faire handeling / Haue made you maister of the field this day1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28
- The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
- 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...1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
- The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- A miniature[…]remarkable for its brilliancy of colour and charming freedom of handling.1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Critical Reviews
- A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
Also used as
handling is also the present participle and gerund of handle.
handling meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu
handling in Tamil
- கையாளுதல், கையாள்தல், கையாள்வது
handling in Marathi
- हाताळणी
handling in Urdu
- ہینڈلنگ
handling in Telugu
- హ్యాండ్లింగ్
More languagesFewer languages
- handling in Malayalam
- കൈകാര്യം kaikāryaṁ
- handling in Gujarati
- હેન્ડલિંગ
- handling in Nepali
- ह्यान्डलिङ
- handling in Malay
- pengelolaan
- handling in Indonesian
- penanganan
- handling in Persian
- دستزدن, کیاستن
Examples of handling in a sentence
- He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
- There has been a lot of controversy around the handling of personal information.
- These packets belong to an isochronous voice application and need priority handling.
Forms of handling
| plural | handlings |
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Origin of handling
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”).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Words formed from handling
Phrases with handling
Questions about handling
- What does handling mean?
- Handling means a touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
- What is handling in Tamil?
- Handling in Tamil is கையாளுதல், கையாள்தல், கையாள்வது. See Handling meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is handling?
- Handling is a noun.
- How do you pronounce handling?
- Handling is pronounced /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of handling?
- The plural of handling is handlings.
Words near handling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: handling (page history and authors); handling (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); handling (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); handling (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); handling (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); handling (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); handling (Nepali, 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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