workingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from 古期英語 wyrċing (“working”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.

名詞

working (countable and uncountable, plural workings)

1. (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
2. Method of operation.
3. (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.

   Be sure to check your working.

4. Fermentation.
5. (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
6. A place where work is carried on.

   the abandoned mine workings

7. (countable) A train movement.
   • 1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:

     From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from 古期英語 wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work +‎ -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).

動詞

working

1. present participle and gerund of work

   Leave him alone; he’s working.

形容詞

working (not comparable)

1. That is or are functioning.

   a working ventilator

2. That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.

   a working copy of the script

   a working title

3. In paid employment.

   Working mothers have recently joined the factory's workforce.

4. Of or relating to employment.

   the working week

5. Enough to allow one to use something.

   a working knowledge of computers

6. Used in real life; practical.

   The working minimum focus distance is the distance from the closest focusable subject to the lens.

7. (obsolete) Efficacious.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

     You ſee my Lord, what woorking woordes hee hath.
     But when you ſee his actions ſtop his ſpeech,
     Your ſpeech will ſtay, or ſo extol his worth,
     As I ſhalbe commended and excuſde
     For turning my poore charge to his direction.

同意語

• (functioning):: functioning; up (mainly used of computers):
• (that suffices but requires further work):: draft, provisional, temporary
• (in paid employment):: employed, in employment
• (of or relating to employment):: work
• (enough to allow one to use something):: basic

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “functioning”):: broken, broken-down, down (antonym(s) of “mainly used of computers”):

下位語

• known-working

派生語

関連する語

• work

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “working”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “working”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.