WORK OUT • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Work out

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/wərk aʊt/ Listen

Work out

verb

Come up with. Synonym: work up. "We worked up an ad for our client"

Happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well. "Not everything worked out in the end and we were disappointed"

Work out in detail. Synonym: elaborate.

Do physical exercise. Synonym: exercise.

Be calculated.

Make a mathematical calculation or computation. Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon.

Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of. Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work. "Work out your problems with the boss" , "This unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out" , "Did you get it?" , "Did you get my meaning?" , "He could not work the math problem"

Give a workout to. Synonyms: exercise, work. "My personal trainer works me hard" , "Work one's muscles" , "This puzzle will exercise your mind"

See more definitions of Work out...

See images of 'Work out'

Etymology of 'Work out'

Share |

"Work out" Quotes from Famous Books

... words—"Let me have the pleasure of bringing my husband" up to the conception of the drama, whose denouement was inflammation of the liver, every female perfidy was assembled to work out the end. Certain incidents will, of course, be met with which diversify more or less the typical example which we have given, but the march of the drama is almost always the same. Moreover a husband ought always to distrust the woman friends of his wife. The subtle artifices of these lying ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

... semicircle of mountains, the Winterbergen, which closes it in at the head. We climbed there together for a week, just he and I and no guides. I remember a rock-ridge there. It was barred by a pinnacle which stood up from it—'a gendarme,' as they call it. We had to leave the arete and work out along the face of the pinnacle at right angles to the mountain. There was a little ledge. You could look down between your feet quite straight to the glacier, two thousand feet below. We came to a place ...

— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason

... joyful fellowship to it. At home and abroad the great soldier and statesman, who was the first founder of the Modern Science, headed that faction. He fought its battles by land and sea; he opened the New World to it, and sent it there to work out ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

... stability, and are concerned and alarmed if any of them fall into industrial or political chaos. We do not wish to see any Old World military power grow up on this continent, or to be compelled to become a military power ourselves. The peoples of the Americas can prosper best if left to work out their own ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... it. I go on looking, on and on, and I'll go on to my dying day, I s'pose. Other folks are doing much the same, I guess, but they don't know they're doing it, and they're the luckier for it. What's the use, anyway—and yet, I s'pose, we must all work out our little share in the scheme of things. Seems to me we've all got our little 'piece' to say, all got our little bit to do. And we've just got to go on doing it to the end. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's so mighty easy it sets you ...

— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum

More quotes...