Definitions for coping

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coping cop·ing

Spelling: [koh-ping]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ pɪŋ/

Coping is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in coping (cginop).

Definitions for coping

noun

1. a finishing or protective course or cap to an exterior masonry wall or the like.
2. a piece of woodwork having its end shaped to fit together with a molding.
3. a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
4. any cloaklike or canopylike covering.
5. the sky.
6. a coping.
7. Metallurgy. the upper half of a flask. Compare drag (def 32).

verb (used with object)

1. British Informal. to cope with.
2. Obsolete. to come into contact with; encounter.
3. to furnish with or as if with a cope or coping.
4. Building Trades. to join (two molded wooden members) by undercutting the end of one of them to the profile of the other so that the joint produced resembles a miter joint (usually followed by in or together). to form (a joint between such members) in this way. to undercut the end of (a molded wooden member) in order to form a coped joint. to cut away (a flange of a metal member) so that it may be joined to another member at an angle.
5. Falconry. to clip or dull (the beak or talons of a hawk).
6. to barter; trade; exchange.

verb (used without object)

1. to struggle or deal, especially on fairly even terms or with some degree of success (usually followed by with):
2. to face and deal with responsibilities, problems, or difficulties, especially successfully or in a calm or adequate manner:
3. Archaic. to come into contact; meet (usually followed by with).

Origin of coping

First recorded in 1595-1605; cope² + -ing¹

Examples for coping

For all the world she would not have liked them to catch him astride the coping of the wall.

Four years after its emergence as a political force, the Tea Party is now coping with its adolescence.

The wall being low, he was able to rest his elbows on the coping.

coping will be more difficult next time, and with the way this war is heading, there will be many next times.

coping with drought and marginal soils was a continual struggle.

All of those interviewed suggested various ways of coping with the social stigma of ending a family relationship.

I was on a bad path/I did too many drugs/ felt like coping on my own when all I needed was a hug.

She raised her head, thinking he was on the coping of the wall.

It was little Esther Tidditt who laid the coping of the dividing wall.

See to that great stone from the coping which hath fallen upon the bridge.