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Working and Developing

working

noun

  • A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked.

verb

  • Exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity.
    • usage: "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"
  • Be employed.
    • usage: "Is your husband working again"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college"
  • Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected.
    • usage: "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water"
  • Perform as expected when applied.
    • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • Shape, form, or improve a material.
    • usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
  • Give a workout to.
    • usage: "Some parents exercise their infants"; "My personal trainer works me hard"; "work one's muscles"; "this puzzle will exercise your mind"
  • Proceed along a path.
    • usage: "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest"
  • Operate in a certain place, area, or specialty.
    • usage: "She works the night clubs"; "The salesman works the Midwest"; "This artist works mostly in acrylics"
  • Proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity.
    • usage: "work your way through every problem or task"; "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived"; "Start from the bottom and work towards the top"
  • Move in an agitated manner.
    • usage: "His fingers worked with tension"
  • Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
    • usage: "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"
  • Cause to work.
    • usage: "he is working his servants hard"
  • Prepare for crops.
    • usage: "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
  • Behave in a certain way when handled.
    • usage: "This dough does not work easily"; "The soft metal works well"
  • Have and exert influence or effect.
    • usage: "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"
  • Operate in or through.
    • usage: "Work the phones"
  • Cause to operate or function.
    • usage: "This pilot works the controls"; "Can you work an electric drill"
  • Provoke or excite.
    • usage: "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy"
  • Gratify and charm, usually in order to influence.
    • usage: "the political candidate worked the crowds"
  • Make something, usually for a specific function.
    • usage: "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
  • Move into or onto.
    • usage: "work the raisins into the dough"; "the student worked a few jokes into his presentation"; "work the body onto the flatbed truck"
  • Make uniform.
    • usage: "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft"
  • Use or manipulate to one's advantage.
    • usage: "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy"
  • Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.
    • usage: "did you solve the problem"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it"; "Did you get my meaning"; "He could not work the math problem"
  • Cause to undergo fermentation.
    • usage: "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
  • Go sour or spoil.
    • usage: "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned-we have to throw it out"
  • Arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion.
    • usage: "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"

adjective

  • Actively engaged in paid work.
    • usage: "the working population"; "the ratio of working men to unemployed"; "a working mother"; "robots can be on the job day and night"
  • Adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something.
    • usage: "the party has a working majority in the House"; "a working knowledge of Spanish"
  • Adopted as a temporary basis for further work.
    • usage: "a working draft"; "a working hypothesis"
  • Of e. G. A machine. ( performing or capable of performing)
    • usage: "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"
  • Serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity.
    • usage: "discussed the working draft of a peace treaty"; "they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Attempting to complete the remaining part of a trade, by finding either buyers or sellers for the rest.

developing

noun

  • Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible.
    • usage: "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"

verb

  • Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation.
    • usage: "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique"
  • Work out.
    • usage: "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
  • Gain through experience.
    • usage: "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting"
  • Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes. )
    • usage: "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
  • Come into existence; take on form or shape.
    • usage: "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
  • Change the use of and make available or usable.
    • usage: "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
  • Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
    • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • Create by training and teaching.
    • usage: "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
  • Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.
    • usage: "The plot developed slowly";
  • Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment.
    • usage: "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"
  • Become technologically advanced.
    • usage: "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
  • Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development.
    • usage: "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"
  • Generate gradually.
    • usage: "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"
  • Grow emotionally or mature.
    • usage: "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
  • Make visible by means of chemical solutions.
    • usage: "Please develop this roll of film for me"
  • Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
  • Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
    • usage: "Spassky developed quickly"
  • Move into a strategically more advantageous position.
    • usage: "develop the rook"
  • Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.
    • usage: "develop the melody and change the key"
  • Happen.
    • usage: "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
  • Expand in the form of a series.
    • usage: "Develop the function in the following form"

adjective

  • Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply.
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Develop.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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