'Working' definitions:
Definition of 'working'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Actively engaged in paid work; "the working population"; "the ratio of working men to unemployed"; "a working mother"; "robots can be on the job day and night" [syn: working(a), on the job(p)]
adjective
Adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something; "the party has a working majority in the House"; "a working knowledge of Spanish"
adjective
Adopted as a temporary basis for further work; "a working draft"; "a working hypothesis"
adjective
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" [syn: running(a), operative, functional, working(a)]
adjective
Serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity; "discussed the working draft of a peace treaty"; "they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects"
noun
A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked [syn: working, workings]
Definition of 'Working'
From: GCIDE
- Work \Work\ (w[^u]rk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Worked (w[^u]rkt), or Wrought (r[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Working.] [AS. wyrcean (imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht); akin to OFries. werka, wirka, OS. wirkian, D. werken, G. wirken, Icel. verka, yrkja, orka, Goth. wa['u]rkjan. [root]145. See Work, n.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you. --Ex. v. 18. [1913 Webster]
- Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well. [1913 Webster]
- We bend to that the working of the heart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce. [1913 Webster]
- We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. --Rom. viii. 28. [1913 Webster]
- This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil. [1913 Webster]
- They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded. --Isa. xix. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea. [1913 Webster]
- Confused with working sands and rolling waves. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth. [1913 Webster]
- Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To ferment, as a liquid. [1913 Webster]
- The working of beer when the barm is put in. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic. [1913 Webster]
- Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. --Grew. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- To work at, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in.
- To work to windward (Naut.), to sail or ply against the wind; to tack to windward. --Mar. Dict. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Working'
From: GCIDE
- Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from Work. [1913 Webster]
- The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Working beam. See Beam, n. 10.
- Working class, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural.
- Working day. See under Day, n.
- Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings.
- Working house, a house where work is performed; a workhouse.
- Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'working'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishment,
- acetification,
- acidification,
- acidulation,
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- agency,
- alive,
- alkalization,
- answer,
- ascertainment,
- at it,
- at work,
- banausic,
- barmy,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- breadwinning,
- businesslike,
- busy,
- carbonation,
- catalysis,
- chemicalization,
- clearing up,
- commercial,
- conduct,
- contour plowing,
- cracking,
- cultivating,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- denouement,
- determination,
- diastatic,
- direction,
- disentanglement,
- doing,
- dressing,
- driving,
- drudging,
- dynamic,
- electrolysis,
- employed,
- employment,
- end,
- end result,
- engaged,
- enzymic,
- execution,
- exercise,
- explanation,
- exploitation,
- fallowing,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fermenting,
- finding,
- finding-out,
- full of business,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- furrowing,
- going,
- going on,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- handling,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- hardworking,
- harrowing,
- hoeing,
- hydrogenation,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in harness,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- interpretation,
- isomerism,
- issue,
- laboring,
- leavening,
- listing,
- live,
- management,
- manipulation,
- materialistic,
- metamerism,
- metamerization,
- moneymaking,
- movements,
- nitration,
- occupation,
- occupied,
- on duty,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the run,
- ongoing,
- operancy,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- operative,
- outcome,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- pegging,
- performance,
- performing,
- phosphatization,
- play,
- plodding,
- plowing,
- plugging,
- polymerism,
- polymerization,
- position isomerism,
- practical,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- prosaic,
- pruning,
- raising,
- realistic,
- reason,
- reduction,
- resolution,
- resolving,
- responsibility,
- result,
- riddling,
- running,
- saturization,
- serving,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- solution,
- solving,
- sorting out,
- steering,
- straining,
- striving,
- struggling,
- sweating,
- swing,
- thinning,
- tied up,
- tilling,
- toiling,
- unraveling,
- unriddling,
- unscrambling,
- unspinning,
- untangling,
- untwisting,
- unweaving,
- upshot,
- using,
- utilitarian,
- utilization,
- weeding,
- work,
- workaday,
- workday,
- working-out,
- workings,
- yeasty
Words containing 'Working'
- To work at,
- To work in,
- To work into,
- To work off,
- To work out,
- To work up,
- Work,
- Worked,
- Workful,
- at work,
- do work,
- in the works,
- out of work,
- work against,
- work at,
- work for,
- work in,
- work off,
- work on,
- work out,
- work over,
- work through,
- work up,
- worked up,
- working out,
- workings,
- works,
- Bantam work,
- Basket work,
- Berlin work,
- Bolster work,
- Brick works,
- Church work,
- Coal works,
- Copper works,
- Crown work,
- Day's work,
- Drawn work,
- False works,
- Finished work,
- Gatch work,
- Gingerbread work,
- Glass works,
- Hand work,
- Iron works,
- Lip work,
- Loam work,
- Louver work,
- Machine work,
- Master work,
- Mosaic work,
- Muscular work,
- Neat work,
- Nulled work,
- Print works,
- Public works,
- Purfled work,
- Random work,
- Range work,
- Reticulated work,
- Rustic work,
- Sabrina work,
- Sorrento work,
- Stream works,
- Tabernacle work,
- Table work,
- To go to work,
- To set at work,
- To set on work,
- To set to work,
- To strike work,
- To work a passage,
- To work a traverse,
- To work the goaf,
- To work the gob,
- To work to windward,
- Topiary work,
- Unit of work,
- Upper works,
- Vermicular work,
- Vermiculated work,
- Virtual work,
- Working beam,
- Working class,
- Working day,
- Working drawing,
- Working house,
- Working model,
- Working pit,
- Working point,
- Works of supererogation,
- art work,
- body of work,
- cold work,
- complete works,
- detective work,
- dirty work,
- dramatic work,
- drove work,
- electrical work,
- field work,
- intelligence work,
- line of work,
- literary work,
- missionary work,
- piece of work,
- police work,
- put to work,
- reference work,
- scut work,
- sewage works,
- social work,
- tambour work,
- undercover work,
- welfare work,
- whole works,
- work animal,
- work bench,
- work camp,
- work day,
- work flow,
- work force,
- work in progress,
- work load,
- work of art,
- work papers,
- work party,
- work permit,
- work shift,
- work shoe,
- work song,
- work stoppage,
- work study,
- work surface,
- work table,
- work time,
- work to rule,
- work toward,
- work unit,
- work well,
- work wonders,
- work-in,
- working agreement,
- working capital,
- working dog,
- working girl,
- working group,
- working man,
- working memory,
- working papers,
- working party,
- working person,
- working principle,
- working rule,
- works council,
- works covenant of,
- works good,
- works program,
- Grotto-work,
- Repouss'e work,
- To work double tides,
- Tut-work,
- Wonder-working,
- Working-day,
- dye-works,
- hot-work,
- make-work,
- pis'e work,
- work-board,
- work-clothes,
- work-clothing,
- work-shirt,
- work-shy,
- working-class,
- hot-work steel,
- sheet-metal work,
- tool-and-die work,
- work-study program,
- propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar