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WORKING OUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Developing in intricate and painstaking detail
Synonyms:
elaboration; working out
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("working out" is a kind of...):
development (act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining)
Context examples:
This same house also rules the state of your health and the steps you take to stay healthy, such as working out, taking vitamins, going to the dentist, getting an annual medical exam, and steps like that. (In contrast to the sixth house, your first house of the horoscope reflects your vitality.)
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I knocked him down, and the police have him in custody; but I can tell you with the most absolute confidence that no possible connection will ever be traced between the gentleman upon whose front teeth I have barked my knuckles and the retiring mathematical coach, who is, I daresay, working out problems upon a blackboard ten miles away.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year. Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all. Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
