different between holding vs handling
holding
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?ld?-?ng, IPA(key): /?ho?ld??/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [?h???d??]
- (UK) IPA(key): [?h???d??]
- (US) IPA(key): [?ho??d??]
- Rhymes: -??ld??
- Hyphenation: hold?ing
Noun
holding (plural holdings)
- Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- 1980, Joseph D. Dwyer, Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe (page 9)
- Although this survey lists only a small number of representative materials in the Hoover Library's Baltic Collection, a comprehensive view of the library's holdings can be gained from the Hoover Institution's card catalog or its printed equivalent
- 2009, The Economist, Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures
- Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
- 2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete (page 378)
- The defender at third position is supposed to keep the partner informed of his holdings in that suit.
- 1980, Joseph D. Dwyer, Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe (page 9)
- A determination of law made by a court.
- A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, V. i. 3:
- Take again / From this my hand, as holding of the Pope / Your sovereign greatness and authority.
- 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, V. i. 3:
- (obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, IV. ii. 27:
- This has no holding, / To swear by him whom I protest to love / That I will work against him.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, IV. ii. 27:
- (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, II. vii. 109:
- Make battery to our ears with the loud music; / The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. / The holding every man shall beat as loud / As his strong sides can volley.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, II. vii. 109:
- (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian ??????? (xolding)).
Coordinate terms
- (determination): finding
Translations
Descendants
- ? Polish: holding
Verb
holding
- present participle of hold
Derived terms
Anagrams
- hodling
French
Noun
holding m or f (plural holdings)
- holding company
Polish
Etymology
From English holding.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?x?l.dink/
Noun
holding m inan
- (business) holding company
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjective) holdingowy
Further reading
- holding in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- holding in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Noun
holding m (plural holdings)
- holding company
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handling
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)
- 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.
- 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
- (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
- 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
- present participle of handle
Danish
Noun
handling
- 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)
- an act, deed
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- 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)
- an act, deed
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Derived terms
- terrorhandling
- valdshandling
References
- “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
handla +? -ing
Pronunciation
Noun
handling c
- an act, a deed
- an act, a document
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Declension
Derived terms
- terrorhandling
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