Coping

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  • noun. The top layer or course of a masonry wall, usually having a slanting upper surface to shed water; a cope.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The top or cover of a wall, usually made Sloping to Shed the water.
  • noun. In ship-building, the turning of the ends of iron lodging-knees so as to hook into the beams, and thus ease the strain upon the necks of the bolts when the vessel rolls.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water
  • noun. 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.
  • verb. Present participle of cope.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
  • Word Usage
    "Dörnyei comments “the most effective way for teachers to demonstrate awareness of learning styles is to be sensitive to the students differential time requirements in coping with certain types of tasks … the idea that different students need varying amounts of time to achieve certain learning objectives is one of the most basic at the same time rather neglected principles of educational psychology” (p. 158)."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    brick  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    groping  hoping  moping  roping  scoping  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    variant
    capping  
    verb-stem
    cope