working.
Operation; action.
Meaning & usage
Operation; action.
Method of operation.
The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
Be sure to check your working.
Fermentation.
Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
A place where work is carried on.
the abandoned mine workings
A train movement.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċing (“working”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.
That is or are functioning.
a working ventilator
That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
a working copy of the script
a working title
In paid employment.
Working mothers have recently joined the factory's workforce.
Of or relating to employment.
the working week
Enough to allow one to use something.
have a working knowledge of computers
Used in real life; practical.
The working minimum focus distance is the distance from the closest focusable subject to the lens.
Efficacious.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).
present participle and gerund of work
Leave him alone; he’s working.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).
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