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TO WORK OUT

Definition: TO WORK OUT

TO WORK OUT

1. (a) To effect by labor and exertion. ``Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.'' --Phil. ii. 12. (b) To erase; to efface. [R.] Tears of joy for your returning spilt, Work out and expiate our former guilt. --Dryden. (c) To solve, as a problem. (d) To exhaust, as a mine, by working.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO WORK OUT

Specialty definitions using "TO WORK OUT": design recovery, DRAFTER, AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN LAYOUTfossickGRANT COORDINATORKettleoverall rating. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO WORK OUT

DomainUsage

Screenplays

-Crew members are required to work out to maintain muscle tone. (Earth Star Voyager; writing credit: Ed Spielman)

You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. (Captain Corelli's Mandolin; writing credit: Shawn Slovo)

That's very interesting. So you've managed to work out something? (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TO WORK OUT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Escape Your Shape: How to Work Out Smarter, Not Harder (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: TO WORK OUT

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Poughkeepsie title defenders - Columbia University's Varsity eight braves cold weather to work out on rough Harlem River. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: TO WORK OUT

AuthorQuotation

William Ellery Channing

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Paley

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO WORK OUT

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A home care program for children may exist in your area, but if one doesn't, you and the treatment center or a home health agency may have to work out the arrangements necessary for you to care for your child successfully. (references)

Business

A survey was conducted by The National University of Singapore's School of Building and Real Estate to work out the power bill for 105 buildings in the public and private sector. (references)

Lastly, after a company participates in a bid and is awarded a project, its representatives must meet with AENA's Contract Department to work out the details of the contract (description of project, duration, payment, payment schedule, etc.). (references)

Economic History

India

Generally, it is advisable to work out a uniform pricing formula for all areas based on expected sales volumes in the different places. (references)

North Korea

These commissions--on South-North reconciliation, South-North military affairs, South-North economic exchanges and cooperation, and South-North social and cultural exchange--were to work out the specifics for implementing the general terms of the basic agreement. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

In September the two ministries came to an agreement, but by the end of the year, the district attorneys still were not allowed to work out of police stations. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

A central government organization was set up in 1999 to fight racial discrimination and to collect nationwide statistics on incidents of discrimination, but it has yet to work out a uniform system. (references)

Worker Rights

Malta

Unions and employers meet annually with government representatives to work out a comprehensive agreement regulating industrial relations and income policy. (references)

Poland

The social partners (unions, employers, and the Government) continued to work out ambiguities in dispute resolution mechanisms provided for in the Labor Code. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO WORK OUT

Language Translations for "TO WORK OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

efterforske de tekniske muligheder for at bringe udbud og efterspoergsel paa arbejdsmarkedet i forbindelse med hinanden (to endeavour to work out arrangements for bringing offers of employment into touch with applications for employment). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onderzoeken,op welke wijze het technisch mogelijk gemaakt kan worden het aanbod en de vraag op de arbeidsmarkt tot elkaar te brengen (to endeavour to work out arrangements for bringing offers of employment into touch with applications for employment). (various references)

   

French

  

rechercher les procedes teChniques permettant la mise en contact des offres et des demandes d'emploi (to endeavour to work out arrangements for bringing offers of employment into touch with applications for employment). (various references)

   

German

  

ausarbeiten (compose, draw up, elaborate, finish, formulate, hammer out, map, prepare, work out, work up, write out). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναζητούν τις τεχνικές μεθόδους που επιτρέπουν την προσέγγιση της προσφοράς και της ζητήσεως εργασίας (to endeavour to work out arrangements for bringing offers of employment into touch with applications for employment). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

véghezvisz (bring off, put into effect, to bring off, to bring to effect, to consummate, to perform, to push through, to work), megoldódik (to unravel), ledolgoz (to work off, work off), kivív (to achieve), kiszámít (compute, figure out, to calculate, to compute, to figure out, to figure up, to tally), kimerít (beat out, deplete, exhaust, expend, overcrop, to consume, to distress, to fag, to fag out, to fatigue, to haze, to impoverish, to jade, to prostrate, to rack, to sew up, to tucker, to tucker out, to use up, to weary, Tucker), alakul (take shape, to exfoliate, to jell, to shape). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricercare i procedimenti tecnici che permettano di mettere a confronto offerte e domande di lavoro (to endeavour to work out arrangements for bringing offers of employment into touch with applications for employment). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

詰める (to pack, to shorten), 編み出す (to think out), "ち出す (to beat, to begin, to close, to end, to hammer out, to set out), 捻り出す (to raise money), 巡らす (to encircle, to enclose, to surround, to think over). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひねり す (to raise money), うち す (to beat, to begin, to close, to end, to hammer out, to set out), つめる (to pack, to shorten), めぐらす (to encircle, to enclose, to surround, to think over), あみ す (to think out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay orkway outay

   

Portuguese

  

procurar os processos técnicos que permitam pôr em contacto a oferta e a procura de emprego (to endeavour to work out arrangements for bringing offers of employment into touch with applications for employment). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

undersöka de administrativa möjligheterna att sammanföra utbud och efterfrågan på arbetsmarknaden (to endeavour to work out arrangements for bringing offers of employment into touch with applications for employment). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO WORK OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "k-o-o-o-r-t-t-u-w"

-2 letters: outroot, outwork, workout.

-3 letters: outrow.

-4 letters: kotow, torot, trout, tutor.

-5 letters: koto, otto, rook, root, roto, rout, took, toot, toro, tort, tour, tout, trot, trow, turk, work, wort.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO WORK OUT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      57 4F 52 4B      4F 55 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 00100000 01001111 01010101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#87 &#79 &#82 &#75 &#32 &#79 &#85 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0057 004F 0052 004B      004F 0055 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492574952452495554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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