Workshop

Definition: Workshop

Workshop

Noun

1. Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done.

2. A brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "workshop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Dream Interpretation

General

Medicine

Public Administration

Transportation

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Synonym: Workshop

Workshop

Noun: workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier.

Crosswords: Workshop

Portuguese (workshop).

But I started dancing long before this stupid workshop, and I'm gonna keep on dancing long after it. So tomorrow is one more day I get to dance (Center Stage; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen)

What would you know? You work ten hours a day and then you lock yourself in that workshop. What do you know about the world (Unstrung Heroes; writing credit: Richard LaGravenese)

Wally's Workshop (1972)

The Adult Workshop of Love (1972)

Workshop for Science (1954)

Nature's Workshop (1933)

Santa's Workshop (1932)

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

References

• Games Workshop Group Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Automotive Workshop Equipment in Germany: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

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Books

• Human pituitary hormones : circadian and episodic variations : a workshop symposium held in Brussels, Belgium, November 29-30, 1979, sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, as advised by the Committee on Medical and Public Health Research (reference)

• Metabolic adaptation to extrauterine life : the antenatal role of carbohydrates and energy metabolism : proceedings of a workshop held in Brussels, December 19-21, 1979, sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, as advised by the Committee (reference)

• Polymers: Their Properties and Blood Compatibility: Proceedings of a Workshop Sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities As Advised By) (reference)

• Afforestation of Agricultural Land: Proceedings O F A Workshop in the Community Programme of Research and Technological Development in the Field of c (reference)

• Workshop on Rebuilding Abalone Stocks in British Columbia (reference)

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Periodicals

• Advanced Corporate Compliance Workshop (reference)

• Public Hearing & Public Workshop Notices (reference)

• School Librarians Workshop (reference)

• Workshop Mailing List (reference)

• New Security Paradigms Workshop Proceedings (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Contemporary Fingerstyle Workshop (reference)

• Health Talks at The Cleveland Clinic Presents: The Explosive and Noncompliant Child: A Special Workshop for Parents, Featuring Dr. Ross Greene (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Radiophonic Workshop (reference)

• Workshop (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tiny Toons Workshop (reference)

• Adventure Workshop 1st - 3rd Grade (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Oak Park 20100 The Router Workshop "How To" Book and Videos (reference)

• Shop-Vac 801-75-62 Workshop Sawdust Collection System (reference)

• Porter-Cable 691RS The Ultimate Router Workshop (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting. Stock Assessment Workshop on Flounder and Lobster. Credit: Fisheries.

Jim Barr working in electronics workshop. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Figure 15. Support frame for four water sampling bottles. This instrument accessory was found in the middle of pieces of scrap iron. It was made in the museum workshop as shown in the accompanying p. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now; photo by Jean Comelli and Jean Cros who worked on prototypes fabricated at the Museum's workshop. It appears to be a forerunner of the modern rosette sample frame..

Workshop leader and participantsEnvironmental EducationFire WorkshopMcCall, IdahoFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Shelley Davis-Brunner.

Caption: W.K.L. Dickson, in Doorway, {And Staff?} at His Laboratory and Workshop, 64 Strand; London, England; Unknown Date; {10.133/3} (jpg).

Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : Reconstruction Aides in workshop. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army. Hospital Center, Savenay, France. : Education of wounded- Workshop. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Workshop of Barnaul Silver Refining Factory (early 19th century). This factory was an important part of the Demidov operations in the Altai area, Barnaul, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Children's class - Harlem Art Workshop. Susie McIver, instructor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Workmen constructing the Statue of Liberty in Bartholdi's Parisian warehouse workshop; first model; left hand; and quarter-size head--Winter 1882?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. (reference)

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She presented herself there, and was admitted into the workshop for women

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Health

Two major themes about secondary damage recurred throughout the workshop. (references)

Dramatic findings, some presented at this workshop, are now changing that pessimistic outlook. (references)

Cell death programs and experimental interventions to halt them were major themes of the workshop. (references)

Business

Customs duty for workshop equipment averages approximately five percent. (references)

The German market is very receptive to U.S.-made automotive workshop equipment. (references)

Investment in new workshop equipment, however, is expected to drop considerably over the next years in all sectors. (references)

Children

Morocco

On December 5, the International Day of Handicapped Persons, the Ministry for the Condition of Women, Protection of the Family and Children, and Integration of the Handicapped, sponsored a 2-day workshop with NGO's to promote self-employment of the handicapped. (references)

Malawi

In December the Ministry responsible for persons with disabilities held a consultative workshop with representatives from NGO's and U.N. agencies to create a taskforce for the formulation of a new National Disability Policy (NDP). There never has been a review of the 1971 Handicapped Persons Act since its enactment, and the taskforce is charged with the development of a new NDP that addresses issues of equal opportunity and access for persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Indonesia

On July 6, four alleged police intelligence officers interrupted an international NGO workshop in Manado, North Sulawesi. (references)

Economic History

Romania

They also purchased a separate workshop to build new cars. (references)

Romania

Trinity Industries purchased former railroad workshop facilities and turned them into freight car rebuilding/overhaul shops. (references)

Belgium

Their major event is the Visit USA Workshop (next event: March 14, 2002), where some eighty exhibitors meet with over five hundred travel trade professionals from Belgium and Luxembourg to discuss business opportunities. (references)

Human Rights

Djibouti

The final workshop report and recommendations were not completed by year's end. (references)

Yemen

For example, in January it conducted a workshop on public participation in the electoral process to encourage and educate citizens on the February local elections and constitutional referendum. (references)

Malawi

In 1999 the High Court began a 2-month refresher-training program for traditional court judges; however, the program did not continue after 1999. In August High Court judges attended a weeklong workshop on human rights and conflict resolution. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

On June 23 in Khartoum, authorities raided a workshop organized by the Gender Centre, arrested and released four speakers, and interrogated participants about their political affiliations. (references)

Sudan

The Committee and UNICEF jointly sponsored a workshop on abductions in July 1999, during which the Committee recognized abduction as a problem that the Government could and should address. (references)

Trade

China

The National Institute of Standards (NIST) did a workshop on Chinese standards in Beijing March 10-12, 1999. The summary of the workshop results can be viewed at the following NIST website; http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/210/216/chinafile/brochure.htm. (references)

Women

Yemen

The Women's Forum on Research and Training, with assistance from a foreign embassy, conducted a workshop on domestic violence for security and NGO officials in September. (references)

Botswana

In May the Department held a national workshop on violence toward women and issued another report on using an integrated approach among all interested parties to gender-based violence. (references)

Worker Rights

Czech Republic

In November the IOM and the Interior Ministry organized a 3-day workshop for officials dealing with trafficking problems. (references)

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

Expressions using "workshop": blacksmith's workshop ♦ European Workshop for Open Systems ♦ glazier's workshop ♦ Healing the Heart workshop ♦ home workshop ♦ joiner's workshop ♦ locksmith's workshop ♦ manufacturing workshop ♦ mobile workshop ♦ Rembrandt the Master and his Workshop ♦ sculptor's workshop ♦ service workshop ♦ sewing workshop ♦ sheet metal workshop ♦ sheltered workshop ♦ tools workshop ♦ workshop committee ♦ workshop practice. Additional references.

Beginning with "workshop": workshop-based, workshop-club, workshop-gallery, workshop-museum, workshop-style, workshop-type.

Ending with "workshop": cum-workshop, small-workshop, studio-cum-workshop.

Afrikaans

ateljee (atelier, studio, work-room). (various references)

Albanian

repart (command, department, installation, shop, stock, unit), punishte (atelier, manufactory, shop), mbledhje pune. (various references)

Arabic 

‏معمل (factory, mill, plant), ‏مصنع (factory, manufactory, mill, plant, work), ‏مشغل, ‏ورشة (atelier, shed, shop), ‏الحلقة الدراسية الحرة (seminar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стая за работа (workroom), секция (section, unit), семинар (seminar), симпозиум (symposium), работилница (manufactory, shop), цех (industrial unit, shop), помещение за работа (workroom). (various references)

Chinese 

车间, 車間 , 工作室 (studio). (various references)

Czech

seminář (seminar, tutorial), provozovna (parlor, parlour), kurz (rate), dílna (mint, plant, shop, workroom). (various references)

Danish

workshop, værksted (factory, shop, studio), atelier (factory, studio). (various references)

Dutch

werkplaats (workplace). (various references)

Esperanto

metiejo, ateliero (atelier, studio, work-room). (various references)

Farsi 

کارگاه (Shootinggallery, Studio, Workroom). (various references)

Finnish

verstas (shop), työpaja (shop). (various references)

French

atelier (workplace, work-room). (various references)

German

Werkstatt (garage, plant, shop, studio, workplace), Atelier (studio, workplace). (various references)

Greek 

συνεργείο (gang, shop). (various references)

Hebrew 

עליל (act, deed, doing, evidence), בית מלאכה (shop), בית יוצר (forge, mint, nursery, pottery), סדנה (forge, repair shop, smithy). (various references)

Hungarian

mûhely (shop, workroom), műhely (shop, yard), üzemrész. (various references)

Indonesian

bengkel (garage, machine shop). (various references)

Italian

officina (garage, repair shop, work, works), laboratorio (lab, laboratory, shop, workroom). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

工房 (studio). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ワークショップ , ワクショップ , さぎょうば (works), さくば (farm), せいさくしつ (studio), こうぼう (beam of light, offense and defense, promising future, rise and fall, studio, ups and downs), こうさくしつ, こうば (factory, mill, plant), こうじょう (advancement, bank of a large river, code of morals, colloid, compromise, concession, constancy, elevation, factory, favour, friendship, hospitality, improvement, intimacy, kindness, mill, moral principles, plant, progress, rise, ruined castle, siege, speech, vocal message). (various references)

Korean 

작업장. (various references)

Manx

thie obbyr (work house), keirdlann. (various references)

Pig Latin

orkshopway.(various references)

Portuguese

oficina (atelier, manufactory, mill, shed, workplace). (various references)

Romanian

studio (studio), secţie într-o uzinã, atelier (manufactory, parlor, parlour, shed, shop, studio, workhouse, workroom, works). (various references)

Russian 

мастерская (manufactory, shop, toolroom). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

studio (studio), radionica (shop). (various references)

Spanish

taller (atelier, garage, mill, pit, shop, studio, workplace, works). (various references)

Swedish

verkstad (laboratorie, shop, works). (various references)

Turkish

atölye (atelier, machine shop, studio, workplace, work-room, works). (various references)

Turkmen 

ussahana (studio). (various references)

Ukrainian

студія (atelier, studio), гурток (circle), майстерня (atelier, manufactory, shop, work room). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xưởng (atelier). (various references)

Welsh

gweithdy (workhouse). (various references)

fabrica, officina. (various references)

dar as-sina'a. (various references)

astelier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "workshop": workshops. (additional references)

Words ending with "workshop": postworkshop. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Workshop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: workship. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: whoops.

-3 letters: hooks, hoops, howks, kophs, poohs, porks, proso, prows, rooks, shook, sopor, spook, spoor, swoop, whoop, whops, whoso, woops, woosh, works.

-4 letters: hook, hoop, hops, howk, hows, koph, kops, kors, oohs, oops, pooh, poor, pork, posh, pows, pros, prow, rhos, rook, rows, shoo, shop, show, sook, soph, swop, whop, woks, woos, wops.

+1 letter: workshops.

+4 letters: postworkshop.