Coping meaning

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The top layer or course of a masonry wall, usually having a slanting upper surface to shed water; a cope.
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The top layer of a masonry wall, usually sloped to carry off water.
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(architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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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.
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Present participle of cope.
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Origin of coping

From cope

Sentence Examples

  • Dean left the cell confident that the old man was coping, but he was beginning to mirror Fred's concern with his past.

  • Maybe that was his way of coping with the loss of his wife.

  • Grant was ill-fitted for coping with the difficulties of such a situation.

  • For success in coping with this difficulty, as well as in dealing with the whole question of the cultivation and employment of wild silks, the unwearying patience and great skill of Sir Thomas Wardle of Leek deserve special mention here.

  • His election was proposed by the patriarch Job, who acted on the conviction that Boris was the one man capable of coping with the extraordinary difficulties of an unexampled situation.

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