Coping vs. Corbel — What's the Difference?

Coping means to invest one's own conscious effort, to solve personal and interpersonal problems, in order to try to master, minimize or tolerate stress and conflict.The psychological coping mechanisms are commonly termed coping strategies or coping skills. The term coping generally refers to adaptive (constructive) coping strategies, that is, strategies which reduce stress.

In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the structure.

The top layer or course of a masonry wall, usually having a slanting upper surface to shed water; a cope.

A piece of stone, wood, brick, or other building material, projecting from the face of a wall and generally used to support a cornice or arch.

(architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

To provide with or support by a corbel or corbels.

(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.

(architectural element) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

(falconry) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

(transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

Present participle of cope

A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; - sometimes called capping.

To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

Furnish with a corbel