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Definition: Working |
WorkingAdjective1. 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". 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". 4. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes". 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". Noun1. A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "working" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | The process of stirring additional solid electrolyte or constituents of the electrolyte into the fused electrolyte in order to produce a uniform solution. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The swelling(i. e. bulking)or shrinkage in seasoned wood and certain wood-based products, accompanying changes in equilibrium moisture content. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The action of cutting wood to size and shape with hand or machine tools. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | The whole of the manipulations carried out in using a machine. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Action of bringing into a desired form by a gradual process of cutting, hammering, scraping, pressing or stretching. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | The process of mining and removal of coal or ore from a mine. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. When a coal seam is being squeezed by pressure from the roof and floor it emits creaking noises and is said to be "working." This noise often serves as a warning to miners that additional support is needed. Sagging roof emitting noises and requiring additional timbering b. A working may be a shaft quarry, level, opencut, or stope, etc. Usuallyin the plural. See also:labor; workings. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| WOT | English | Working Group on Development Techniques | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WorkingSynonyms: functional (adj), on the job(p) (adj), operative (adj), running(a) (adj), working(a) (adj), workings (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one's legs, at call; up and doing, up and stirring. |
Agency | Noun: agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking, interaction; procurement. |
Agent | Workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout. |
Bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum. | |
Preparation | Prepared; Verb: in readiness; ready, ready to one's band, ready made, ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table; in gear; in working order,in working gear; snug; in practice. |
Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack. | |
Tendency | Adjective: tending; Verb: conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to; liable; subservient; (instrumental); useful; subsidiary; (helping). |
Workshop | Adjective: at work, at the office, at the shop; working. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Did I mention that my father's filthy rich and I'll be working for free (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) And remember, the Lord loves a working man. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) Got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie.) I'd like to have your advice on how to live comfortably without working hard (Rebecca; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald) She's letting me stay here while she's working on a movie that's being made in Canada (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch) | |
Lyrics | Just working with tha scraps you wuz given (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) That it's not working out (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah) When the working day is done ("Girls Just Want to Have Fun"; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper) It's a sacrifice working day to day (SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY; performing artist: Donna Summer) By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working ("By the Time I Get to Phoenix"; performing artist: Glen Campbell) | |
Clever | It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. (references; author: Mark Twain) Working vacation (references; author: unknown) All mothers are working mothers. (references; author: unknown) I only work to enjoy when I am not working. (references; author: unknown) Sleeping on the job: I was working smarter not harder. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Working Girls (1973) Working Models of Success (1973) She's Working Her Way Through College (1952) The Working Man (1933) Working Girls (1931) | |
Song Titles | WORKING IN THE COAL MINE (performing artist: Lee Dorsey ) Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me, Girl (medley) (performing artist: The Spinners) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Pictured is a laboratory shot of a computer-assisted tomographic (CAT) scanner. Pictured is a technician working at a screen and behind a glass wall. A patient is on a table and being tested by the CAT scanner. The lighting is very subdued. This new technology revolutionized detection of brain tumors. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | A technician working under a hood. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | CDC employee working at computer. Credit: CDC. |  | This CDC lab technician is working on AIDS research during a series of 1988 laboratory studies. Credit: CDC. |
 | Machine Shop Men Working at Machines. Credit: NASA. |  | Technicians working in the McDonnell White Room on the Mercury. Credit: NASA. |
 | A team of astronomers working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced results today of ... Credit: NASA. |  | Commander Emerson Jones working with aerial photographs. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Series of photos getting to mountain peak by horse and Working here and there in Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | EXXON remedial vessels still working on beaches one year after the EXXON VALDEZ disaster. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Working 3" by Luiz Gustavo Sales Commentary: "..." | "Working at Nine" by Alejandro González G. Commentary: "Light in a room at the 9th floor, in the "Paseo de Gracia" street at Barcelona." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Charles Baudelaire | Inspiration comes of working every day. |
Henry Ford | Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success. |
John Adams | Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. |
Leonardo Da Vinci | A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. |
Lucretius | For thee the wonder -- working earth puts forth sweet flowers. |
Miguel de Cervantes | I thought it working for a dead horse, because I am paid beforehand. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. |
| Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. | |
Robert Frost | A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The working men have no country. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In order to assure the rights and welfare of the population and to guarantee to France complete freedom in working the mines, Germany agrees to the provisions of Chapters I and II of the Annex hereto. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | If two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are inter-mingled, and if they have "faith in each other's purpose, hope in each other's future and charity towards each other's shortcomings" - to quote some good words I read here the other day - why cannot they work together at the common task as friends and partners? Why cannot they share their tools and thus increase each other's working powers? Indeed they must do so or else the temple may not be built, or, being built, it may collapse, and we shall all be proved again unteachable and have to go and try to learn again for a third time in a school of war, incomparably more rigorous than that from which we have just been released. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | The Theory hardly rose to the dignity of a Working Hypothesis |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | I could not attempt great elaboration of detail, in the working out of character within such limits |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Yeah, I work out how it can best be done, right, but it always works out. It's like having a Galacticredit card which keeps on working though you never send off the cheques |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The soil where this dark miner was working had perchance shown indications that encouraged him. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She said she was a working woman, and her husband was dead |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It is a fire which proceeds directly from the ire of God, working not of its own activity but as an instrument of divine vengeance |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom watched her working, and his eyes smiled |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here the greater part of the day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Working Group on Periodic Paralysis. (references) | |
Now your kidneys have stopped working. (references) | ||
Levine WC, Griffin PM, Gulf Coast Vibrio Working Group. (references) | ||
Business | Working Systems develops business application software. (references) | |
This classification should be seen as a working assumption. (references) | ||
Swedes enjoy meeting and working with people from other countries. (references) | ||
Children | Zimbabwe | A local NGO was working on auditing and implementing the law during the year. (references) |
Fiji | Homeless children often are seen on the street working as shoeshine boys or involved in prostitution. (references) | |
Indonesia | NGO's have criticized the Government's inadequate efforts to help street children and working children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | Five literary figures working for the Ministry resigned in protest. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The assailants accused the reporter of working for a newspaper that criticized the Government. (references) | |
Georgia | Stations desiring benefits and better working relations with authorities practiced self-censorship. (references) | |
Discrimination | Haiti | It does provide for equal working conditions regardless of sex, beliefs, or marital status. (references) |
Economic History | Armenia | Registration takes up to 5 working days. (references) |
Honduras | Honduras is working to improve these shortcomings. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | In May six new judicial officials began working at the National Penitentiary. (references) |
Kazakhstan | In April the Government formed a working group on alternatives to confinement. (references) | |
Bolivia | Poor pay and working conditions make judges and prosecutors susceptible to bribes. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | Other Aboriginal NGO's include groups working on native title issues, reconciliation, deaths in custody, and Aboriginal rights in general. (references) |
Panama | Even when working in close proximity to each other, indigenous laborers in the country's sugar, coffee, and banana plantations work under worse conditions than their nonindigenous counterparts. (references) | |
Gabon | NGO workers visited more than a dozen villages and found that most Pygmies there lived in conditions tantamount to slavery, working on plantations for "masters" for one plate of rice and a few cents per day. (references) | |
Minorities | Latvia | If a public event is coorganized by the State, one of the working languages must be Latvian. (references) |
East Timor | UNTAET uses Portuguese, English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Tetum, with English as its working language. (references) | |
Greece | An increase in xenophobia has paralleled an increase in the number of non-Greeks living and working in the country. (references) | |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | The changes could negatively impact working conditions. (references) |
INDONESIA | Workers are obligated to report hazardous working conditions. (references) | |
Morocco | Citizens working abroad are a source of considerable remittances. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ghana | Parliament still was working to develop effective oversight of the workings of the executive branch. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Participants agreed to a future work plan with the inclusion of the OSCE and all political parties registered in 1999 in a parallel government working group on electoral reform. (references) | |
Philippines | After the national elections on May 14, the political coalition of President Macapagal-Arroyo held a wide majority in the House of Representatives and a working majority in the Senate. (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | Other working groups are focused on telecommunications and health issues. (references) |
Brazil | To this end, they are also working on a "green line" expedited method of clearance. (references) | |
Hong Kong | All banks maintain close working relationships with correspondent banking institutions. (references) | |
Travel | Brazil | They prefer a more continuous working relationship. (references) |
Qatar | This procedure usually takes at least four working days. (references) | |
Spain | Temporary Entry of Laptop Computers and Working Material. (references) | |
Women | Kuwait | Nonetheless an estimated 33 percent of women of working age are employed. (references) |
Cuba | The law also grants working mothers preferential access to goods and services. (references) | |
Netherlands | Persons working fewer than 20 hours per week also are entitled to parental leave. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Luxembourg | The law mandates a safe working environment. (references) |
Philippines | Several rescues involved minors working as prostitutes. (references) | |
Turkey | Approximately 1.1 million of the working children are boys. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | There's a growing trend of stay-at-home fathers and working mothers. |
Ed Smart | You know, I feel that they have been very diligent, along with the FBI, in working. You know, at different times we're at odds. |
Joan Rivers | Two men I have love working with were Don Rickles and David Brenner. They make you laugh and they are gentlemen. |
Marla Hanson | Right. I took four years off to raise my child. Now I'm starting to get back into the writing. I'm actually working on a book this time. |
Martin Scorsese | Tough neighborhood but it was a working class, working class, but it was right off the bowery too, you know. |
Rush Limbaugh | We've been around here for centuries, and we still can barely muster working toilets. |
Senator Paul Sarbanes | Well, here's your choice. At the moment, the accounting industry is overseen by the accounting industry. That's not working very well. |
Tim McGraw | Probably not as much as she's been a housewife when I've been out working. It's never more than a couple days if we have to do it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Labor's interest is very direct and personal because working conditions, wages, and prices affect the very life and happiness of the worker and his family. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | That our delegates to the OAS, working with those of other members, strengthen that body as an instrument to preserve the peace and to prevent foreign domination anywhere in the Hemisphere. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Only a total working partnership among Federal, State, and local governments can succeed. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next two and a half years. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Again, I wish my successor, working with a substantial majority of his own party, the best of success in reforming the costly and cumbersome machinery of the Federal Government. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Established a White House Working Group to assist in the implementation of the policy. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Meanwhile, we are working for reduction of arms and military activities. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Majority Leader, the Congress and the Executive were capable of working together to produce a budget on which this nation could live. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The American people are working together. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | America is working with Russia and China and India, in ways we have never before, to achieve peace and prosperity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Working" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 71.44% of the time. "Working" is used about 25,369 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 71.44% | 18,125 | 511 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 26.26% | 6,662 | 1,451 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.29% | 581 | 10,898 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25,369 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "working": actual working hours ♦ appalling working conditions ♦ cease working ♦ decrease in working time ♦ discriminating selector working ♦ economic working life ♦ efficient working of a machine ♦ enforce smb. working ♦ European Working Group on Legionella Infections ♦ flexible working hours ♦ forked working ♦ get into working order ♦ get smb. working ♦ get working ♦ hard working ♦ in working condition ♦ in working gear ♦ in working order ♦ incapable of working ♦ keep in working order ♦ laminated working surface ♦ loss of working hours ♦ net working capital ♦ not working ♦ optimum working frequency ♦ reduction in working time ♦ reduction of working hours ♦ reduction of working time ♦ remote working ♦ road working ♦ safe working load ♦ shorter working week ♦ single lane working chicane ♦ soil working ♦ start working ♦ stop working ♦ the working class ♦ timber working machine ♦ uninsured working expenses ♦ up and down working ♦ way of working ♦ woman not working outside the home ♦ working age ♦ working agreement ♦ working anchorage ♦ working animal ♦ working as designed ♦ working beam ♦ working by cutting ♦ working capacity ♦ working capital ♦ working chamber ♦ working circle ♦ working class ♦ working clothes ♦ working committe on the constitution ♦ working committee ♦ working condition ♦ working conditions ♦ working cost ♦ working costs ♦ working day ♦ working dinner ♦ working dog ♦ working drawing ♦ working dress ♦ working end ♦ working expenses ♦ working face ♦ working flow ♦ working gas ♦ working girl ♦ working group ♦ working hour ♦ working hours ♦ working house ♦ working hypothesis ♦ working included angle ♦ working instructions ♦ working key ♦ working knowledge ♦ working life ♦ working load ♦ working lunch ♦ working majority ♦ working man ♦ working material ♦ working mean ♦ working memory ♦ working method ♦ working model ♦ working name ♦ working order ♦ working out ♦ working papers ♦ working party ♦ working person ♦ working pit ♦ working place ♦ working plans circle ♦ working plans conservator. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "working": working-age, Working-alms-house, working-ant, working-class, working-classes, working-day, working-from-home, working-girls, working-group, working-groups, working-holiday, working-hours, working-in-area, working-late-at-the-office, working-level, working-level-months, working-life, working-man, working-men, working-out, working-over, working-party, working-people, working-poor, working-progress, working-scale, working-set, working-surfaces, working-with-hands. | |
Ending with "working": copper-working, hardest-working, hard-working, iron-working, metal-working, miracle-working, non-working, out-working, over-working, re-working, team-working, wood-working. | |
Containing "working": lower-working-class. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wood working | 3,761 | metal working | 124 |
wood working plan | 1,608 | working abroad | 124 |
free wood working plan | 1,221 | wood working jig | 123 |
wood working tool | 1,149 | free wood working project | 121 |
wood working supply | 838 | working retriever central | 114 |
wood working project | 726 | working moms | 110 |
working dog | 684 | home based working moms | 107 |
working out | 471 | working papers | 104 |
working | 464 | wood working power tool | 101 |
wood working pattern | 396 | wood working tip | 99 |
wood working machinery | 296 | wood working project plan | 94 |
working capital | 274 | leather working | 92 |
working mother | 211 | in oregon working | 92 |
wood working magazine | 210 | wood working shop | 88 |
fine wood working | 209 | wood working router | 85 |
working woman | 207 | working man | 83 |
free wood working pattern | 207 | wood working craft | 82 |
working asset | 155 | working visa | 78 |
wood working equipment | 149 | working ranch | 78 |
working girl | 137 | popular wood working | 76 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "working"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | werkersklas (working class, working classes), werker (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman), bedryfsklaar (in working order), bedryfskapitaal (working capital), arbeider (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Albanian | shfrytëzim (exercise, exertion, operation, use, utilization), pune (ferial, operating, workaday), punëtor (employable, hand, hardworking, industrious, laborer, laboring, labourer, labouring, machine-minder, man, toiler, worker, workman), përdorim (application, consumption, currency, deal, employment, exercise, exertion, exploitation, operation, reclamation, usage, use, using, utilization, wear, wear and tear), kantier shfrytëzimi, funksionim (functioning, operating, operation, running), aktiv (active, asset, bustling, lively). (various references) | |
Arabic | مساعد على العمل, معاملة (dealing with, handling, processing, treatment), مشغول (busy, engaged, occupied), حفريات بمنجم, حل مسألة (work), تخمر (ferment, fermenting, sour, sweat), تشغيل (employment, implementation, operation, running), عامل (active, agent, cooperative, employee, engine, fillip, hand, industrious, ingredient, laborer, labourer, process, use, workman). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с който може да се работи, практичен (applicable, applied, careful, down to earth, hardheaded, practical, pragmatic, sensible, unromantic, worldly wise), експлоатация (exploitation, maintenance, operation), забой (breast, face, stall), начин на действие (procedure), оперативен (operational, operative, surgical), движение (course, go, impulsion, locomotion, motion, move, movement, propulsion, race, stir, way), временен (ambulatory, fly-by-night, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, makeshift, provisional, provisory, temporary, tentative, transient), работнически (labor, labour, operative), трудов (labor, labour, occupational, work), ферментация (ferment, fermentation, zymosis), функциониране, работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, workmanship), работен (hardworking, knockabout, operating, operational), работещ (operational, running), отнасящ се до работа. (various references) | |
Chinese | 工作 (Job, Jobs, Work, Worked, workings, works). (various references) | |
Croatian | radno. (various references) | |
Czech | provoz (flow, service, traffic), pracovní (occupational, operational, operose), práce (employment, job, labor, labour, pidgin, pursuit, service, task, undertaking, work), postup (advance, approach, consecution, course, course of action, practice, procedure, process, progress, progression, run), pùsobení (action, agency, agents, coverage, effect, operation), obrábìní, fungování, exploatace (exploitation), èinnost (action, activity, doing, doings, office, operation, ploy, work). (various references) | |
Danish | træets arbejde (movement), omrøring (agitation, stirring, swirling), maskinbetjening (handling, handling a machine, machine operation, operation, working with a machine), forarbejdning (processing), altning. (various references) | |
Dutch | winning (coal-getting, extraction, getting, stoping, winning, work), vervorming (metamorphosis, recreation, refashioning, regeneration, transformation), ontginning (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, extraction, grubbing, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil, reclamation), kneden (knead), houtbewerking, het werken van hout (movement), doorroeren (curl, froth, stir, whip, whirl), bediening (administration of the last sacraments, attendance, service, waiting). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malpliigo de laborhoroj (reduced hours, shortening of working hours), laborulo (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man), laborpreta (in working order), laborkapitalo (working capital), laboristo (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman), laborista klaso (working class, working classes), funkcipreta (in working order). (various references) | |
Faeroese | arbeiðsmaður (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Finnish | työstö (processing), työskentely (work), työnteko (work), työ tekevä (labouring), koneenkäyttö (handling, handling a machine, machine operation, operation, working with a machine). (various references) | |
French | travail (work), exploitation. (various references) | |
Frisian | arbeidersman (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman), arbeider (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
German | arbeitend (laboring, labouring, tasking). (various references) | |
Greek | κατεργασία (process, treatment), μεταλλευτική εκσκαφή (entry, mine opening), παρτίδα (dealings, lot, portion), που λειτουργεί (fuctioning), που δουλεύει, χειρισμός μηχανής (handling, handling a machine, machine operation, operation, working with a machine), εργαζόμενοσ, εργαζόμενος (to work, worker), επεξεργασία (elaboration, finish, milling, processing), ανάδευση (agitation, shaking, stirring, turning, whipping), τρόποσ εργασίασ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תפעול (handling, operation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | munkás (collator, floater, gutter, hand, laborer, laboring, labourer, labouring, manual labour, munitioner, operative, platter, ready worker, roustabout, shredder, spinner, worker, workman), működés (action, agency, functioning, gear, movement, performance, pursuit, reach), dolgozó (employee, jobholder, laborer, labourer, neuter bee, operative, toiler, worker). (various references) | |
Icelandic | verkamaður (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Indonesian | eksploitasi (development, exploitation, uperation). (various references) | |
Italian | lavorazione (appointment, mailorder, manufacture, order, processing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ロ長調 (B major, work, work sharing, work song, workaholic, workbench, workbook, worker, working couple, working group, working holiday, working lunch, workload, workshop, workstation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ワーキング . (various references) | |
Korean | 일 (Affair, Day, days, Job, Jobs, Work, workings, works). (various references) | |
Luganda | tukola (we are working). (various references) | |
Malay | pekerja (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Manx | obbree (agent, employee;practical, factory hand, labourer, proletarian, worker, working man, workman), labraghey (labour, labouring, work), gobbyr (operate), gobbraghey (acting). (various references) | |
Papiamen | trahadó (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman), obrero (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orkingway.(various references) | |
Polish | robotnik (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Portuguese | tratamento (cure, curing, dressing, handling, remedy, treatment, usage), trabalho da madeira (conversion), trabalho (ado, craftsmanship, employment, function, hardship, job-, labor, labour, needlework, pain, painstaking, service, work, workmanship, works), trabalhador (active, blue collar worker, diligent, full-timer, hand, hardworking, industrious, jobber, journeyman, laborer, laboring, laborious, labourer, labouring, operative, painstaking, practician, sedulous, toiler, working-man, workman), que trabalha (laboring, labouring), que funciona, operação de uma máquina (handling, handling a machine, machine operation, operation, working with a machine), operação (agency, operation, run, surgical operation), agitado (astir, bustling, choppy, eventful, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled), ãtrabalharã da madeira (movement). (various references) | |
Romanian | exploatare (development, exploitation, grinding, running, service), abataj (hewing, slaughter), acţiune a medicamentului, activitate (action, activity, business, function, operation, practice, work), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, flurry, flutter, fret, go, haste, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation), care munceşte, contracţie (contraction, cramp), crispare, cultivare (cultivation, culture), cultivare a unui teren, de exploatare (running), de lucru, în vigoare (effectual, in effect), exploataţie (exploitation), muncitoresc (worker's, workers', working class), fãcãtor (author, creator, doer, maker, making), fermentaţie a vinului, fermentare (ferment), funcţionare (action, activity, motion, movement, run, running, work), lucrãtor (active, diligent, hand, industrious, operative, work, worker, workman), lucrare (achievement, deed, piece of work, realization, study, work, writing), lucru (act, activity, article, belongings, business, cert, deed, employment, happening, implement, job, labor, labour, matter, object, occurrence, operation, predecessor, service, situation, thing, things, traps, work), manevrare (manoeuvring), mers al maşinii, mobil (changeable, detachable, impulse, mobile, motive, movable, moving, personal, removable, unstable), muncã (grub, job, labor, labour, operation, service, task, work), muncitor (active, hard working, industrious, Jack, journeyman, laborer, laboring, laborious, labourer, labouring, operative, operose, toiler, worker, workman), efect (act, action, consequence, deed, effect, impact, outcome, purpose, result, tendency). (various references) | |
Russian | рабочий (blue-collar worker, bottler, casual labourer, casual worker, full time, half-back-time worker, hand, laborer, laboring, labourer, labouring, man, mudlark, operative, operator, part-time worker, worker, working man, workingman, workingmen, workman), работающий (going, operational), работать рабочий (labors, labours), работа (dead horse, duty, job, labor, labour, making, operation, proceedings, service, work), трудящийся, обработка (adaptation, conditioning, cultivation, elaboration, manipulation, manufacture, refinement, tillage, treatment), действующий (acting, active, agent, effective, going, in gear, live, operable, operational, operative). (various references) | |
Scottish | sloisir (dash, wash by working), sùrdail (diligent, in good working trim), oibriche (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman), calanas (lint-working, spinning of wool, wool-working), armadh (working wool in oil). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaposlen (employed, hired), radni (labor, labour, occupational, operating), rad (business, labor, labour, open, running, willing, work), rađenje (ongoings, to-do), proces (process, trial), pravljenje (making), praktičan (hardheaded, practical), obrada (facing, interpretation, processing, treatment), koji radi (labouring), izrada (make, production, workmanship). (various references) | |
Slovene | uradne. (various references) | |
Somali | shaqada. (various references) | |
Spanish | laboral (industrial, labor, labour, occupational, technical). (various references) | |
Sranan | wrokoman (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Swedish | bearbetning (adaptation, adaption, arrangement, cultivation, dressing, process), arbete (chore, employment, job, jobbing, labor, labour, operation, undertaking, work, workmanship, writing). (various references) | |
Tagalog | manggagawâ (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeterli (adequate, ample, competent, decent, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enough, equal, fit, qualified, satisfactory, satisfying, snug, sufficient, suited, that will do), temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, bread and butter, constitutive, corner stone, elemental, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundament, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, primary, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, socle, staple, substratum, substructure, underlying), mayalanma (ferment, fermentation, leavening, zymosis), kazı (dig, diggings, excavation, workings), işleyen (active, going, operative, running), işletme (exploitation, hoax, keeping, leg pull, management, operating, operation, operational, plant, running, undertaking, workings), işleme (crop, cultivation, engraving, fancywork, handiwork, movement, perpetration, processing, service, travel, work), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, workings, works), halletme (adjustment, removal, settlement, solution, solving, working out), üretme (breeding, culture, fabrication, generation, procreation, producing, production), çalýşma, çalışma (action, exercise, gear, job of work, labor, labour, practice, praxis, priming, running, starting, study, training, work, workout), çalışan (active, laboring, labouring), çaba (diligence, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, industry, nerve, push, strenuousness, struggle, try, zip). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | система обслуговування, розробка (operation), робочий (laboring, labouring, operating, operational, operative), робота (action, business, job, labor, labour, occupation, operation, performance, proceedings, work), трудовий, обробка (finishing, processing, work), експлуатація (exploitation, operation), експлуатаційний (exploitative, operating), працюючий (laboring, labouring, operational, operative), придатний для роботи, діючий (acting, active, alive, effective, effectual, efficacious, going, operable, operating, operative). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vừa đủ; có hiệu lực, vô sản dùng để làm việc công, thừa nhận được, sự vận hành (run), sự làm việc (work), sự làm sự lên men, sự chuyển vận, lao động, có giá trị có thể chấp nhận, công nhân (operative, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Zulu | isisebenzi (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | operatio, operatione, operationem, operationes, operationis, operationum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | verezyanguhahe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 24, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai oute en tw ierw euron me proV tina dialegomenon h episustasin poiounta oclou oute en taiV sunagwgaiV oute kata thn polin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et neque in templo invenerunt me cum aliquo disputantem aut concursum facientem turbae neque in synagogis neque in civitate |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And nether in the temple thei founden me disputinge with ony man, nether makynge concours of puple, nether in synagogis, nether in citee; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And that they nether founde me in the teple disputinge with eny man other raysinge vp the people nether in the Synagoges nor in the cite. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither exciting the people to sedition, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 24, Verse 12 |
| Albanian | Dhe këta nuk më gjetën në tempull duke u grindur me ndonjë, ose duke nxitur turmën as në sinagogat as edhe nëpër qytet; |
| Cebuano | Ug wala ako makita nila nga nakiglalis kang bisan kinsa o nagpagubot sa mga tawo, diha sa templo o sa mga sinagoga o sa siyudad. |
| Croatian | A nisu me našli ni u Hramu da s kim raspravljam ili bunu podižem, ni u sinagogama, ni po gradu. |
| Danish | Og de have ikke fundet mig i Ordveksel med nogen eller i Færd med at vække Folkeopløb, hverken i Helligdommen eller i Synagogerne eller omkring i Staden. |
| Dutch | En zij hebben mij noch in den tempel gevonden tot iemand sprekende, of enige samenrotting des volks makende, noch in de synagogen, noch in de stad; |
| Finnish | Eivät he ole tavanneet minua kenenkään kanssa väittelemästä eikä väentungoksia aikaansaamasta, ei pyhäkössä, ei synagoogissa eikä kaupungilla, |
| French | On ne m`a trouvé ni dans le temple, ni dans les synagogues, ni dans la ville, disputant avec quelqu`un, ou provoquant un rassemblement séditieux de la foule. |
| German | Auch haben sie mich nicht gefunden im Tempel mit jemanden reden oder einen Aufruhr machen im Volk noch in den Schulen noch in der Stadt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dan tidak pernah orang-orang Yahudi itu mendapati saya bertengkar dengan seseorang pun atau mengumpulkan orang untuk membuat huru-hara baik di Rumah Tuhan maupun di rumah-rumah ibadat atau di mana saja di dalam kota. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tiadalah orang berjumpa hamba berbalah dengan barang seorang pun, atau menghasut orang banyak mengadakan huru-hara, baik di dalam Bait Allah atau di mana-mana pun di dalam negeri. |
| Italian | Essi non mi hanno mai trovato nel tempio a discutere con qualcuno o a incitare il popolo alla sommossa, né nelle sinagoghe, né per la città |
| Maori | Kihai ano ahau i mau i a ratou i roto i te temepara e totohe ana ki tetahi, e mea ana ranei i te mano kia tutu, kahore i nga whare karakia, kahore ano hoki i te pa: |
| Norwegian | Og hverken i templet eller i synagogene eller omkring i byen har de funnet at jeg talte til nogen eller opviglet folket; |
| Portuguese | e que não me acharam no templo discutindo com alguém nem amotinando o povo, quer nas sinagogas quer na cidade. |
| Rumanian | Nu m`au gqsit nici kn Templu, nici kn sinagogi, nici kn cetate, stknd de vorbq cu cineva, sau fqcknd rqscoalq de norod. |
| Shuar | Nuisha yajauch áujmatki weai Wáitkiacharmai. Yusa Uunt Jeencha tura Israer-shuara aujtai jeencha tura pepru Jíntianmasha aentsnum Charáa Charáa Ajá wekaai penké Wáitkiacharmai, Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | No me hallaron disputando con nadie en el templo, ni provocando tumultos del pueblo, ni en las sinagogas ni en la ciudad. |
| Swahili | Wayahudi hawakunikuta nikijadiliana na mtu yeyote. Hawakunikuta nikichochea watu Hekaluni wala katika masunagogi yao, wala mahali pengine popote katika mji huo. |
| Uma | Uma-a hangkania raruai' momehono' hante hema-hema ba mpo'usoki ntodea hi Tomi Alata'ala ba hi tomi posampayaa, ba hiapa-apa hi rala ngata. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "working": workingman, workingmen, workings, workingwoman, workingwomen. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "working": hardworking, interworking, metalworking, networking, nonworking, outworking, overworking, reworking, topworking, unworking, woodworking. (additional references) | |
Words containing "working": interworkings, metalworkings, networkings, woodworkings. (additional references) | |
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"Working" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aworking, dorking, dworkins, warking, woring, workning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "working" (pronounced wer"king) |
| 5 | w er" k i ng | reworking. |
| 4 | -er" k i ng | jerking, lurking, perking, shirking, smirking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-k-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: rowing. | |
-2 letters: giron, groin, grown, owing, wring, wrong. | |
-3 letters: gink, girn, giro, gowk, gown, grin, grow, ikon, inro, iron, king, kino, kirn, know, noir, nori, oink, ring, rink, wing, wink, wino, wonk, work, worn. | |
-4 letters: gin, gor, ink, ion, irk, kin, kir, koi, kor, nog, nor, now, own, rig, rin, row, wig, win, wog. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-k-n-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: workings. | |
+2 letters: knowinger, reworking, unworking. | |
+3 letters: networking, nonworking, outworking, topworking, workingman, workingmen. | |
+4 letters: checkrowing, foreknowing, hardworking, networkings, overworking, pawnbroking, woodworking. | |
+5 letters: corkscrewing, interworking, metalworking, pawnbrokings, woodworkings, workingwoman, workingwomen. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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