coping
English
Noun
coping (plural copings)
- (architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “28”, in Babbitt:
- 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.
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- (psychology) 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.
- (falconry) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.
Translations
The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water
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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.
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Verb
coping
- present participle of cope
Anagrams
- picong