coping
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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 […]
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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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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The process of clipping the beak or talons of a bird.
Étymologie
From cope + -ing. The sense referring to a brick wall is cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."
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Aussi une forme de copepresent participle and gerund of cope
Formes
- pluriel
- copings
coping · The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
copper · A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with…Copper · A surname.cops · The police, considered as a group entity.