Found 4 items, similar to Working.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: work
bekerja
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: working
eksploitasi
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: working
working
n : a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked [syn:
workings]
working
adj 1: 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)]
2: 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”
3: adopted as a temporary basis for further work;
“a working
draft”;
“a working hypothesis” [syn:
working(a)]
4: (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)]
5: 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”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Working
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.]
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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.
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O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work,
To match thy goodness? --Shak.
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Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw
be given you. --Ex. v. 18.
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Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake,
Our life doth pass. --Sir J.
Davies.
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2. Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform;
as, a machine works well.
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We bend to that the working of the heart. --Shak.
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3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or
influence; to conduce.
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We know that all things work together for good to
them that love God. --Rom. viii.
28.
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This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he
desired to be taught. --Locke.
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She marveled how she could ever have been wrought
upon to marry him. --Hawthorne.
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4. To carry on business; to be engaged or employed
customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor;
to toil.
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They that work in fine flax . . . shall be
confounded. --Isa. xix. 9.
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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.
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Confused with working sands and rolling waves.
--Addison.
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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.
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Till body up to spirit work, in bounds
Proportioned to each kind. --Milton.
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7. To ferment, as a liquid.
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The working of beer when the barm is put in.
--Bacon.
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8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a
cathartic.
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Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so
to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room.
--Grew.
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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.
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Working
\Work"ing\,
a & n. from
Work.
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The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer.
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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.
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