coping en · NOUN
Etymology
From cope + -ing. The sense referring to a brick wall is cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, “28”, in Babbitt:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 377, column 2:
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) The process of clipping the beak or talons of a bird.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| copings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
coping strategy · coping mechanism
Translations (9)
it capezzata (The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water) · it cimasa (The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water) · es afrontamiento (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.) · uk протистоя́ння (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.) · nl coping (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.) · it copertina (The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water) · es albardón (The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water) · es albardilla (The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water) · uk о́пір (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.)