What's the difference between cope and handle?

Cope


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering for the head.
  • (n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
  • (n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
  • (n.) An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
  • (n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
  • (v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
  • (v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
  • (v. i.) To exchange or barter.
  • (v. i.) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
  • (v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.
  • (v. t.) To bargain for; to buy.
  • (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
  • (v. t.) To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (2) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
  • (3) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
  • (4) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
  • (5) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
  • (6) The independent effects of pain and pain coping strategies, as well as the interaction effects between pain and pain coping strategies on depression, were evaluated cross-sectionally and prospectively over a 6-month interval.
  • (7) There are general problems with the ways in which coping has been conceptualized and measured by researchers evaluating stress and coping, and there are problems more specific to the ways coping concepts and measures have been used to study patients with arthritis.
  • (8) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (9) The example of psychosocial stress (coping with the diagnosis, self esteem, life crises etc.)
  • (10) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
  • (11) Avoidance coping was negatively related to dispositional optimism.
  • (12) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
  • (13) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
  • (14) A total of 54 family caregivers of elderly dementia patients completed interviews and questionnaires assessing the severity of patient impairment and caregiving stressors; caregiver appraisals, coping responses, and social support and activity; and caregiver outcomes, including depression, life satisfaction, and self-rated health.
  • (15) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
  • (16) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
  • (17) The benefits of holistically identifying clients' ability to mobilize coping resources is that nurses can plan intervention more effectively if these categorizations can be consistently verified.
  • (18) It was suggested that treatment outcome in a multidisciplinary pain clinic is more immediately related to patients' coping styles and their choice of pain treatment modalities than to their demographics and personalities.
  • (19) To be frank, the police cannot cope with the extent of abuse on social media.
  • (20) During the nursing period the person who has psychological problems goes through a transitional period, in which he becomes responsible for coping with his problems, which are being expressed in various ways.

Handle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
  • (v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.
  • (v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
  • (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.
  • (v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of.
  • (v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill.
  • (v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
  • (v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
  • (v. i.) To use the hands.
  • (n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.
  • (n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (3) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (4) Control of cell calcium handling and transport may be abnormal in hypertension.
  • (5) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
  • (6) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
  • (7) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
  • (8) In this study, we examined renal tubular cell handling of digoxin and ouabain using LLC-PK1 cells, a model of proximal renal tubular cells.
  • (9) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
  • (10) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
  • (11) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
  • (12) Techniques are described for the special handling of these cells as well as suitable assay procedures.
  • (13) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (14) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
  • (15) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
  • (16) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
  • (17) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
  • (18) Both techniques are used by industry and regulatory agencies to monitor levels of fungal contamination at various stages of food handling, storing, processing and marketing.
  • (19) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
  • (20) The greatest care should be exercised by industry in handling tremolite or materials contaminated with it.