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available
English
Etymology
avail +? -able
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ve?l?b(?)l/
Adjective
available (comparative more available, superlative most available)
- Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
- Readily obtainable.
- (law) Valid.
- (archaic) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.
- Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
Synonyms
- (such as can be availed of): usable, profitable, advantageous; vacant (of a location)
- (legally valid): effectual, valid
Antonyms
- (such as can be availed of): unavailable
Derived terms
- availability
- unavailable
Translations
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working
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??k??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w?k??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k??
- Hyphenation: work?ing
Etymology 1
From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyr?ung (“working, work”), verbal noun of wyr?an (“to work”), equivalent to work +? -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.
Noun
working (countable and uncountable, plural workings)
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Method of operation.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- Fermentation.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
- A place where work is carried on.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyr?ende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijan? (“to work”), equivalent to work +? -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).
Verb
working
- present participle of work
Adjective
working (not comparable)
- That is or are functioning.
- That suffices but requires additional work.
- In paid employment.
- Of or relating to employment.
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- a working knowledge of computers
- Used in real life; practical.
Synonyms
- (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
Antonyms
- (functioning):: broken, broken-down, down (mainly used of computers):
Derived terms
Hyponyms
- known-working
Translations
Related terms
- work
References
- working in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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