work out
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
work out
- (transitive, with object after out) To calculate.
- Can you work out 250 × 12 in your head for me?
- Can you work out how to get to the university by car?
- (transitive) To make sense of.
- Synonyms: figure out
- I can't work these instructions out.
- (transitive) To smooth or perfect.
- This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks.
- (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.
- These figures just don't work out.
- (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- Are you still seeing John? – No, it didn't work out.
- (intransitive) To exercise.
- John won't be here for a while because he is working out.
- (intransitive) To habitually exercise rigorously, especially by lifting weights, in order to increase strength or muscle mass or maintain fitness.
- Synonyms: train
- Wow, you're looking good! Do you work out?
- (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 5, p. 38,
- The two Russians made good farmhands, and in summer they worked out together.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (novel), New York: Viking, 1958, Chapter 13, p. 201,
- […] with them good wages, maybe a fella can get hisself a little piece a land an’ work out for extra cash.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 5, p. 38,
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see work, out
- Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand.
- He works out of a small office shared with three others.
- Russian: понима́ть
- Spanish: entender
- German: ausarbeiten
- Spanish: resolver
- German: Erfolg haben, gelingen
- Russian: получа́ться
- French: entraîner
- German: trainieren
- Italian: allenarsi
- Portuguese: malhar, exercitar-se
- Spanish: entrenar
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