different between handling vs handler

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hændl???/, /?hændl??/
• 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.
   • 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. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

3. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

Derived terms

• double-handling
• request-handling

Related terms

• handling charge
• handling fee

Translations

Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

1. present participle of handle

Danish

Noun

handling

1. action, act

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

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.

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

Derived terms

• terrorhandling

English

Etymology

From Middle English handler, handiller, equivalent to handle +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hæn.dl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?hæn.dl?/
• Hyphenation: hand?ler

Noun

handler (plural handlers)

1. (literally) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.

   The handler of a weapon gets a symbolic sensation of deadly power.

2. (in combination) A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter).

   The spy's handler told him to approach the subject by posing as a dog handler.
3. (derogatory) An advisor or manager to a person occupying a position or office to which the speaker believes the holder does not possess the typical qualifications and/or experience.
4. (programming) A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.
   • 2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming (volume 5, page 62)

     If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.

Hyponyms

• event handler
• exception handler

Derived terms

• event-handler
• art handler

Related terms

• handlebar
• handleable
• handling

Translations

See also

• manipulator

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Danish

Noun

handler c (singular definite handleren, plural indefinite handlere)

1. A (financial) trader

Inflection

Noun

handler c

1. indefinite plural of handel

Verb

handler

1. present of handle

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

handler m

1. indefinite plural of handel

Verb

handler

1. present tense of handle