Definitions

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  • noun Plural form of working.
  • noun The internal mechanism of some device
  • noun The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the internal mechanism of a device
  • noun a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

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Examples

  • For six months I have read with close attention your story of "Frenzied Finance," in _Everybody's Magazine_, and have paid close attention to the manner in which, by pandering to the worst prejudices of the American people, you have endeavored by misstatement of facts to distort the conditions actually existing through what you call the workings of the "System."

    Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

  • An understanding of the ribosome's innermost workings is important for a scientific understanding of life.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 - Press Release 2009

  • The conveyor belt model is an important component of our understanding of the long-term workings of the climate.

    Bill Chameides: Deep Ocean Revisions Do Not Spell Global Warming Rethink 2009

  • New drugs or new therapies, or old drugs and old therapies, or crystals or visualization, or simply our ignorance of the long-term workings of the virus gave us the right to this hope.

    Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

  • New drugs or new therapies, or old drugs and old therapies, or crystals or visualization, or simply our ignorance of the long-term workings of the virus gave us the right to this hope.

    Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

  • New drugs or new therapies, or old drugs and old therapies, or crystals or visualization, or simply our ignorance of the long-term workings of the virus gave us the right to this hope.

    Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

  • New drugs or new therapies, or old drugs and old therapies, or crystals or visualization, or simply our ignorance of the long-term workings of the virus gave us the right to this hope.

    Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

  • All this is made endlessly complex by the ability of the mind to interfere with, or to shape, its own workings, which is pathology at worst and our precious autonomy at best.

    Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality 2010

  • All this is made endlessly complex by the ability of the mind to interfere with, or to shape, its own workings, which is pathology at worst and our precious autonomy at best.

    Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality Marilynne Robinson 2010

  • Pope of Babylon, and all her inward and her outward workings, which is Pagin.

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

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