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WORK OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Do physical exercise
Example:
She works out in the gym every day
Synonyms:
exercise; work out
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
"Work out" entails doing...:
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Verb group:
exercise; work; work out (give a workout to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "work out"):
limber up; loosen up; warm up (make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity)
train (exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition)
tumble (do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully)
strengthen; tone; tone up (give a healthy elasticity to)
press; weight-lift; weightlift (lift weights)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
workout (the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Give a workout to
Example:
this puzzle will exercise your mind
Synonyms:
exercise; work; work out
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "work out" is one way to...):
put to work; work (cause to work)
Cause:
exercise; work out (do physical exercise)
Verb group:
exercise; work out (do physical exercise)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "work out"):
warm up (cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
workout (the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Come up with
Example:
We worked up an ad for our client
Synonyms:
work out; work up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "work out" is one way to...):
develop; make grow (cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development)
Verb group:
elaborate; work out (work out in detail)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Work out in detail
Example:
elaborate a plan
Synonyms:
elaborate; work out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "work out" is one way to...):
develop; make grow (cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development)
Verb group:
work out; work up (come up with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
Example:
He could not work the math problem
Synonyms:
figure out; lick; puzzle out; solve; work; work out
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "work out" is one way to...):
understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)
"Work out" entails doing...:
reason (think logically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "work out"):
break (find the solution or key to)
answer (give the correct answer or solution to)
guess; infer (guess correctly; solve by guessing)
strike (arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing)
riddle (explain a riddle)
answer; resolve (understand the meaning of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Make a mathematical calculation or computation
Synonyms:
calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "work out" is one way to...):
reason (think logically)
Verb group:
work out (be calculated)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "work out"):
resolve; solve (find the solution)
capitalise; capitalize (compute the present value of a business or an income)
budget (make a budget)
approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))
survey (plot a map of (land))
integrate (calculate the integral of; calculate by integration)
differentiate (calculate a derivative; take the derivative)
extrapolate; interpolate (estimate the value of)
divide; fraction (perform a division)
multiply (combine by multiplication)
deduct; subtract; take off (make a subtraction)
add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)
factor; factor in; factor out (resolve into factors)
average; average out (compute the average of)
recalculate (calculate anew)
miscalculate; misestimate (calculate incorrectly)
prorate (divide or assess proportionally)
process (perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information)
extract (calculate the root of a number)
quantise; quantize (apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 7
Meaning:
Be calculated
Example:
The fees work out to less than $1,000
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "work out" is one way to...):
add up; amount; come; number; total (add up in number or quantity)
Verb group:
calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out (make a mathematical calculation or computation)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 8
Meaning:
Happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well
Example:
Not everything worked out in the end and we were disappointed
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "work out" is one way to...):
come out; turn out (result or end)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
“The worst of the story is,” said he, “that I show myself up as such a confounded fool. Of course it may work out all right, and I don’t see that I could have done otherwise; but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnnie I have been.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you have a first date on this weekend of November 23-24, it may work out well!
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I shall test him with his present craving and see how it will work out; then I shall know more.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He therefore murdered Adair, who at the time was endeavouring to work out how much money he should himself return, since he could not profit by his partner’s foul play.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As she stood in her garden, holding up her little lantern to light me back, I thought her observation of me had an anxious air again; but I was too much occupied in pondering on what she had said, and too much impressed—for the first time, in reality—by the conviction that Dora and I had indeed to work out our future for ourselves, and that no one could assist us, to take much notice of it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There are several people in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in his interest.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Be open—this could work out well.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I am giving you a few examples of various possibilities, and there are many ways this could work out.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
This leads me to the second way this new moon might work out.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
There is one other way the solar eclipse and Luckiest Day could work out for you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
