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WORKINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
Synonyms:
working; workings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("workings" is a kind of...):
excavation (a hole in the ground made by excavating)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The internal mechanism of a device
Synonyms:
workings; works
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("workings" is a kind of...):
mechanism (device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Context examples:
His face was very much agitated and very much flushed, and there were strong workings in the features, and strange gleams in the eyes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
One unexpected sentence came from her lips after another, till I got involved in a web of mystification; and wondered what unseen spirit had been sitting for weeks by my heart watching its workings and taking record of every pulse.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
