workings

as inmechanism
as inmechanism
as inmodus operandi
as innuts and bolts
as inperformance
as inplay
as inprocess
as inreckoning
as inrunning
as ininsides
as inmechanics
as infunctioning
as incultivation

Synonyms for workings

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Word Origin & History

Old English weorc, worc "something done, deed, action, proceeding, business, military fortification," from Proto-Germanic *werkan (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch werk, Old Norse verk, Middle Dutch warc, Old High German werah, German Werk, Gothic gawaurki), from PIE root *werg- "to work" (see urge (v.)).

In Old English, the noun also had the sense of "fornication." Workhouse in the sense of "place where the poor or petty criminals are lodged" first appeared 1650s. Works "industrial place" (usually with qualifying adj.) is attested from 1580s. Work ethic recorded from 1959.

Example Sentences forworkings

I observe the workings of unemotional law and sometimes record them.

What were the workings of that intricate celestial brain none can say.

Certainly, many of the workings of Nature are wonderful, but they are not supernatural.

She did not understand the workings of Pee-wee's active and fickle mind.

I was but showing how closely the Evil One can imitate the workings of the Spirit.'

It was like a toilsome passage through the workings of an iron mine.

One of the boys, a bombardier from a Fort, explained the workings of the camp.

He could not in the least be sure about any of the workings of her mind.

How little are the workings of genius understood by the "painstaking" ones.

Pity has ever been the weakness of my nature; I feel its workings even as I write this.

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