Definition of "handling" in английский

noun

1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.

   • baggage handling
   • 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.

3. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.

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

verb

1. present participle and gerund of handle