Work Out

Definition: Work Out

Work Out

Verb

1. Come up with; "We evolved an interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client".

2. Turn out well; "Everything worked out in the end".

3. Work out in detail; "elaborate a plan".

4. Do physical exercise; "She works out in the gym every day".

5. Be calculated; "The fees work out to less than $1,000".

6. Make a mathematical calculation or computation.

7. Find the solution to (a problem or question):"did you solve the problem?"; understand the meaning of; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem".

8. Give a work-out to: "Some parents exercise their infants"; "My personal trainer works me hard"; "work one's muscles".

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

Synonyms: Work Out

Completion

Do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.

Conduct

Verb: transact, execute; despatch, dispatch; proceed with, discharge; carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect, put into effect; work out; go through, get through; enact; put into practice; do; officiate.

Worship

Work out one's salvation; go to church; attend service, attend mass; communicate; (rite).

Crosswords: Work Out

I just wish I could work out some schedule. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Relationships based on extreme circumstances never work out. (Speed 2: Cruise Control; writing credit: Graham Yost; Jan de Bont)

Yeah, he must work out. (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but glad I had them. (The Bridges of Madison County; writing credit: Richard LaGravenese)

I can stay in the moment, I don't have to control everything in the future, and I believe everything is gonna work out fine. (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan)

It'll work out right (Got A Hold On Me; performing artist: Christine McVie; writing credit: Christine McVie and Todd Sharp)

That maybe things could work out right (Shattered Dreams; performing artist: Johnny Hates Jazz)

But it just don't work out that way (Mother and Child Reunion; performing artist: Paul Simon; writing credit: Paul Simon)

It didn't work out with me an your mom (Just the Two of Us; performing artist: Will Smith)

It Didn't Work Out Right (1916)

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

Books

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

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Work Out Your Swing (reference)

• Exteme Teen Step Work Out (reference)

• I Hate to Work Out Workout (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Everything Is Gonna Work out Fine (reference)

• Work This 2003: Part 4 Club Nrg Work Out (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Civilization and Billy didn't work out Billy at Seattle - afraid of the cars Billy was given a new home at the Seattle zoo. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Stone crab pots and fishing boats work out of small inlets in the Florida Keys. Credit: Fisheries.

Nikita, I'm sure we can work out something!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

County supervisor and home supervisor helping young farm couple work out farm and home plans. Group meeting, York, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home supervisor helping young farm couple work out home plan. Group meeting, York, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

Meeting of Farm Security Administration rehabilitation clients who work out farm and home plans with help of county supervisor and home supervisor. York, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Together, you can work out a plan. You also should work with your doctor and dietitian if you are already on a special diet for a disease such as diabetes, kidney, or heart disease. (references)

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)

Most eating-related side effects associated with radiation, chemotherapy, or other treatments go away after cancer treatment ends. If you have had side effects, you should gradually begin to feel better, and your interest in food and mealtimes will come back. Sometimes, though, side effects persist, especially weight loss. If this happens to you, talk to your doctor and work out a plan together for how to address the problem. (references)

Business

This significant increase would work out to some 15,000 to 20,000 extra COEs over the next three to four years. (references)

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)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

Some claim that many Government-employed religious teachers of minority religions are neither members of the religion they are teaching nor qualified to teach it. Therefore, in practice schools with few religious minority students often work out arrangements with local churches or temples, which direct religious studies outside school hours. (references)

Economic History

India

Usually, the two parties work out an arrangement by which the franchisee agrees to sell the company's products on an exclusive basis. (references)

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)

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)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "work out": To work out ♦ work out again ♦ work out at ♦ work out clothes ♦ work out the ship's position ♦ work out the ship's reckoning ♦ work out the week. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bereken (account, calculate, charge, count, figure), afwerk (finish). (various references)

Albanian

zgjidh (annul, arrange, cancel, dispose, dispose of, dissolve, do, iron out, resolve, settle, solve, unbind, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unlace, unleash, unlock, unravel, untie, work), stërvitem (exercise, train oneself), shfrytëzoj (avail oneself of, embrace, exercise, exploit, harness, maintain, make the best, make the most of, make use of, milk, quarry, use, utilize, work), përpunoj (cast, design, develop, elaborate, evolve, mill, process, recondition, refine, rehash, treat), gjej përgjigjen. (various references)

Arabic 

‏يوجد (be, dwell, exist, occur, subsist, there are), ‏حقق (achieve, attain, check, consummate, effectuate, fulfil, fulfill, get on, implement, inquire, obtain, prize, probe, produce, quest, realize, search closely, see, slate, take), ‏تطور (blossom, break through, breakthrough, development, evolution, growth, shape), ‏تدرب (drill, exercise, intern, practice, practise, train, training), ‏عمل بنجاح, ‏إستنبط (contrive, devise, educe, elicit, evolve, formulate, frame). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пресмятам (calculate, compute, figure, figure out, figure up, reckon, tally, tot up, value, work), излизам постепенно, измъквам се постепенно, изтощавам с работа, изчислявам (calculate, evaluate, figure, figure on, figure out, judge, put, rate, reckon, reckon up, total, value), имам решение, постигам (accomplish, achieve, acquire, come, compass, effect, effectuate, get, notch up, reach, realize, secure, turn, turn in), излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come off, come out, emerge, exit, get out, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, run off, sally, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out), приключвам (conclude, determine, end, end off, get over, sign off, top off, wind up), уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, negotiate, organize, patch, patch up, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, wrap, wrap up), проумявам (figure out, make out, penetrate, see daylight), възлизам (add to, amount, figure out, reach, run out, run up, tot up), тренирам (coach, drill, educate, exercise, fit, form, practice, practise, train), разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand), разработвам (amplify, develop, elaborate, exploit, mature, open, operate, recover, run in, shake down, treat), свършвам (accomplish, adjourn, be through with smth., clear away, end, finish, job, put through, run short, shoot away, sink, turn off, wind up), упражнявам се, постигам с усилие. (various references)

Chinese 

編� (compile, concoct, cook up, create out of the imagination, draw up, fabricate, invent, make up), 編製 (authorized strength, braid, draw up, establishment, plait, weave), 制訂 (formulate). (various references)

Czech

vypracovat (develop, devise, evolve, formulate, frame, hammer out, hammer smth. into shape, think out, work, work up, write out), vypoèítat (calculate, compute, figure out, itemize), vyèerpat (deplete, do up, drain, enervate, exhaust, fatigue, suck up, tire out, use up, wear). (various references)

Danish

beregne (account, calculate, count, figure). (various references)

Dutch

uitwerken (act, be effective, bring about, finish, have effect), uitrekenen (account, calculate, count, figure), tellen (account, calculate, count, figure), rekenen (account, calculate, count, demand, figure, postulate, require), calculeren (account, calculate, count, figure), berekenen (account, calculate, charge, compute, count, figure), afwerken (finish, finish off). (various references)

Esperanto

kalkuli (calculate, count, figure), ellabori (finish). (various references)

Finnish

laskea (account, calculate, compute, count, decrease, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, go down, include, lay, let, let down, let go, lower, reckon, set). (various references)

French

calculer, compter. (various references)

Frisian

rekkenje (account, calculate, count, figure, settle, square up), besiferje (account, calculate, count, figure), berekkenje (account, calculate, count, figure), ôfwurkje (finish). (various references)

German

rechnen (account, arithmetic, calculate, calculating, calkulate, comput, compute, computing, count, do sums, estimate, figure, have faith, have faith in, include, make calculations, numeracy, rate, reckon, sums, take into account, to calculate, to compute, to reckon, trust), lösen (break off, buy, cancel, cast off, cutting, detach, disengage, dislodge, dissolve, ease, let off, loosen, release, remove, resolve, sever, severance, solve, sort out, tackle, take off, to detach, to part, to tackle, unbind, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfix, unfold, unloose, unravel, unstick, untie), berechnen (account, bill, calculate, calculating, charge, compute, count, estimate, figure, intend, invoice, mean, recalc, reckon, to calculate, to compute, to recalc), ausarbeiten (compose, draw up, elaborate, finish, formulate, hammer out, map, prepare, to work out, work up, write out). (various references)

Greek 

επεξεργάζομαι (elaborate, mill, process). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחשב (calculate, compute, determine, reckon, tally), ל�"תפתח (be developed, develop, gain one's knowledge, unfold), ל�"תעמל (drill, exercise). (various references)

Hungarian

végrehajt (accomplish, carry out, effect, enforce, execute, fulfil, fulfill, implement, perform, prosecute, pull off, realize, to accomplish, to bring into effect, to bring to effect, to carry out, to consummate, to effect, to effectuate, to execute, to fulfil, to implement, to perform, to realize), tornázik (to do gymnastics, to take exercise), kidolgoz (elaborate, labor, labour, to expand, to finish, to get up, to labor, to labour, to mature, to process, to work out, to work up, to write up, work up). (various references)

Icelandic

reikna (account, calculate, count, figure). (various references)

Italian

calcolare (account, calculate, compute, count, count in, estimate, figure, include, make, number, put, quote, rate, reason, reckon, reckon up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

詰める (to pack, to shorten, to work out), 編み出す (to think out, to work out), �"ち出す (to beat, to begin, to close, to end, to hammer out, to set out, to work out), 捻り出す (to raise money, to work out), 巡らす (to encircle, to enclose, to surround, to think over, to work out), 不調 (bad condition, break-off, disagreement, disorder, not to work out, out of form, slump), 中�'取る (to work out a compromise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なか�'とる (to work out a compromise), ひねり� す (to raise money, to work out), うち� す (to beat, to begin, to close, to end, to hammer out, to set out, to work out), ふちょう (bad condition, break-off, code, disagreement, disorder, head nurse, mark, not to work out, out of form, password, prefectural office, secret price tag, sign, slump, symbol), つめる (to pack, to shorten, to work out), めぐらす (to encircle, to enclose, to surround, to think over, to work out), あみ� す (to think out, to work out). (various references)

Manx

jannoo magh (content, deduce, define, determine, divine, make out, purvey, purveyance, satisfy, seek out, supply, think out, work out as position), feasley (cast loose, liberation, loose, work out as problem). (various references)

Norwegian

regne (account, calculate, count, figure). (various references)

Papiamen

rek (account, calculate, count, figure), kalkulá (account, appraise, calculate, count, estimate, figure, rate). (various references)

Pig Latin

orkway outay

Polish

liczyć. (various references)

Portuguese

ser computado em, resolver (choose, compose, conclude, decide, deem, dissolve, figure out, find, fix, iron out, mean, nail down, resolve, settle, solve, unravel, unriddle), realizar (accomplish, achieve, actualize, attain, celebrate, consummate, create, do, effect, execute, fulfil, fulfill, materialize, perform, produce, realize, render, transact), planejar (arrange, brood, cogitate, compass, concert, concoct, conspire, contrive, count, design, frame, intend, lay, map, meditate, plan, program, programme, project, propone, propose, purpose, schedule, scheme, straighten out, trace), organizar (arrange, fix up, form, organize, stage), esgotar (consume, deplete, do in, dry, empty, exhaust, expend, fatigue, fork, impoverish, outwear, overdrive, overstrain, pump up, rack, run out of, sap, spend, tire, use up, wear out, weary). (various references)

Romanian

socoti (account, believe, calculate, call, cipher out, compute, consider, count, deem, esteem, examine, fancy, feel, figure, find, guess, hold, imagine, judge, make, number, put, rate, reckon, regard, suppose, tally, think), rezolva o problemã (put the ax in the helve, solve a problem), revizui (control, go behind, inspect, overhaul, re-examine, review, revise), plãti o datorie prin muncã, epuiza un filon, dezlega o problemã, da rezultate, câştiga prin trudã, ajunge la un rezultat. (various references)

Russian 

разрабатывать (design, develop, devise, elaborate, elaborating, exploit, work up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

završiti se (turn out), ukapirati, trenirati (drill, train), razrešiti (disengage, dissolve, overslaugh, release), razraditi (elaborate). (various references)

Spanish

calcular (account, add up, calculate, compute, count, estimate, figure, figure up, make, put, reason, reckon, reckon up), computar (account, calculate, compute, count, figure, put, reckon, reckon up), acabar (accomodate, accomplish, break off, come, complement, complete, discontinue, eat up, end, expire, finish, follow up, get over, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, play out, round off, terminate, throw over, top off, use up, wash out, waste, wind up). (various references)

Swedish

utarbeta (compose, develop, evolve, frame). (various references)

Turkish

geçirmek (bash, carry, come through, communicate, conduct, Dot, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, reach, scarf, screw, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spend, spin out, stick, swipe, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth), çözülmek (be untied, come loose, come undone, get loose, loosen, ravel out, slip, sort itself out, uncoil, unfasten, unravel, unrope, untwine, work loose), çözmek (break, cipher out, compound, cut loose, decipher, defrost, detach, disengage, disentangle, figure out, loosen, puzzle out, read, reason, resolve, slack, slack up, solve, unbind, unbrace, unbuckle, uncoil, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfix, ungird, unhitch, unlink, unloose, unpick, unravel, unriddle, unrope, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind), çalışarak ödemek, anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, wreak), egzersiz yapmak (exercise), tüketmek (consume, deplete, destroy, dispose of, drain, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, spend, swallow up, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off), halletmek (adjust, arrange, clear up, compound, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, figure out, get things done, hurdle, lay on, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort, sort out, Square, surmount, unriddle, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip), hesaplamak (calculate, check out, cipher, compute, count up, discount, figure out, foot, foot up, number, reckon), idman yapmak, istenilen sonucu vermek, keşfetmek (cipher out, descry, detect, dig out, discover, explore, find, hit off, scout, search out, study out), sonuçlanmak (be at an end, be concluded, come out, conclude, culminate, end, end up, eventuate, finish, go, issue, redound, turn out), ayrıntılarıyla hazırlamak. (various references)

Turkmen 

ornaюmak (get fixed up, settle down). (various references)

Ukrainian

удатися, розробити, вирахувати, добиватися (achieve, aim, attain, canvass, obtain, try for, woo, work up). (various references)

calculare, conputabit, conputabuntur, conputant, conputaremus, conputaris, conputas, conputasti, conputat, conputata, conputatae, conputati, conputatis, conputet, conputetur. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outwork, workout.

-1 letter: outrow.

-2 letters: kotow.

-3 letters: koto, rook, root, roto, rout, took, toro, tour, trow, turk, work, wort.

-4 letters: kor, oot, ort, our, out, rot, row, rut, too, tor, tow, two, wok, woo, wot.

-5 letters: or, ow, to, ut, wo.

+1 letter: outworks, workouts.

+2 letters: outworked, outworker.

+3 letters: autoworker, outworkers, outworking, stuccowork.

+4 letters: autoworkers, stuccoworks.