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   war game
         n 1: a simulation of a military operation intended to train
               military commanders or to demonstrate a situation or to
               test a proposed strategy

English Dictionary: Wirkungsanalyse	by the DICT Development Group
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war zone n a combat zone where military operations are coordinated (especially a designated area in international waters where the rights of neutrals are not respected by nations at war)
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warehouseman n a workman who manages or works in a warehouse [syn: warehouser, warehouseman]
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warehouseman's lien n right of a warehouseman to retain goods until all storage charges have been paid
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warehousing n depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing" Synonym(s): repositing, reposition, storage, warehousing
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wearisome adj so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" Synonym(s): boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
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whoreson n the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson] insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous Synonym(s): asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB
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work animal n an animal trained for and used for heavy labor
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work camp n a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects Synonym(s): work camp, prison camp, prison farm
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work in v add by mixing or blending on or attaching; "work in the butter and the dough will get the right consistency"; "In his speech, the presidential candidate worked in a lot of learned words"
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work in progress n a piece of work that is not yet finished
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work on v to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something; "the child worked at the multiplication table until she had it down cold" Synonym(s): work at, work on shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal" Synonym(s): work, work on, process
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work song n a usually rhythmical song to accompany repetitious work
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work unit n a unit of measurement for work [syn: work unit, {heat unit}, energy unit]
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work-in n occasion when workers continue to work as a protest against e.g. proposed dismissal or closure of the factory
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working adj actively engaged in paid work; "the working population"; "the ratio of working men to unemployed"; "a working mother"; "robots can be on the job day and night" Synonym(s): working(a), on the job(p) adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something; "the party has a working majority in the House"; "a working knowledge of Spanish" adopted as a temporary basis for further work; "a working draft"; "a working hypothesis" (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" Synonym(s): running(a), operative, functional, working(a) serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity; "discussed the working draft of a peace treaty"; "they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects" n a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked [syn: working, workings]
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working agreement n an informal agreement to work together
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working capital n assets available for use in the production of further assets Synonym(s): capital, working capital
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working class n a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" Synonym(s): labor, labour, working class, proletariat
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working day n a day on which work is done [syn: workday, working day, work day] Antonym(s): day of rest, rest day the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage; "they work an 8-hour day" Synonym(s): workday, working day
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working dog n any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs
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working girl n a young woman who is employed a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money Synonym(s): prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street
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working group n a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved; "the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks" Synonym(s): working group, working party
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working man n an employee who performs manual or industrial labor [syn: workman, workingman, working man, working person]
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working memory n memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking
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working out n developing in intricate and painstaking detail [syn: elaboration, working out]
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working papers n records kept of activities involved in carrying out a project; "the auditor was required to produce his working papers" a legal document giving information required for employment of certain people in certain countries Synonym(s): working papers, work papers, work permit
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working party n a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved; "the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks" Synonym(s): working group, working party
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working person n an employee who performs manual or industrial labor [syn: workman, workingman, working man, working person]
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working principle n a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done [syn: working principle, working rule]
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working rule n a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done [syn: working principle, working rule]
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working-class adj of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw Synonym(s): propertyless, wage- earning, working-class, blue-collar working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor" Synonym(s): wage-earning, working-class
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workingman n an employee who performs manual or industrial labor [syn: workman, workingman, working man, working person]
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workings n the internal mechanism of a device [syn: works, workings] a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked Synonym(s): working, workings
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workman n an employee who performs manual or industrial labor [syn: workman, workingman, working man, working person]
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workmanlike adj worthy of a good workman; "a competent job"; "the book is a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and index"
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workmanship n skill in an occupation or trade [syn: craft, craftsmanship, workmanship]
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workmate n a fellow worker
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workmen's compensation n compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment
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works council n (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc; also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc
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worrisome adj not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety [syn: unreassuring, worrisome] Antonym(s): reassuring causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" Synonym(s): distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
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worsen v grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" [syn: worsen, decline] Antonym(s): ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" Synonym(s): worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate Antonym(s): ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
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worsened adj changed for the worse in health or fitness; "I feel worse today"; "her cold is worse" Synonym(s): worse, worsened Antonym(s): better made or become worse; impaired; "troubled by the worsened economic conditions"; "the worsened diplomatic relations"
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worsening adj changing for the worse; "worried by the worsening storm" Antonym(s): bettering n process of changing to an inferior state [syn: deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening] changing something with the result that it becomes worse
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wrecking n the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled Synonym(s): razing, wrecking destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined Synonym(s): laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wrecking bar n a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge [syn: crowbar, wrecking bar, pry, pry bar]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
War \War\, n. [OE. & AS. werre; akin to OHG. werra scandal, quarrel, sedition, werran to confound, mix, D. warren, G. wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps to E. worse; cf. OF. werre war, F. querre, of Teutonic origin. Cf. {Guerrilla}, {Warrior}.] 1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities. Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed. --F. W. Robertson. Note: As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. A war begun by attacking another nation, is called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. War undertaken to repel invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is called defensive. 2. (Law) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason. 3. Instruments of war. [Poetic] His complement of stores, and total war. --Prior. 4. Forces; army. [Poetic] On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war. --Milton. 5. The profession of arms; the art of war. Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth. --1 Sam. xvii. 33. 6. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. [bd]Raised impious war in heaven.[b8] --Milton. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. --Ps. lv. 21. {Civil war}, a war between different sections or parties of the same country or nation. {Holy war}. See under {Holy}. {Man of war}. (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. {Public war}, a war between independent sovereign states. {War cry}, a cry or signal used in war; as, the Indian war cry. {War dance}, a dance among savages preliminary to going to war. Among the North American Indians, it is begun by some distinguished chief, and whoever joins in it thereby enlists as one of the party engaged in a warlike excursion. --Schoolcraft. {War field}, a field of war or battle. {War horse}, a horse used in war; the horse of a cavalry soldier; especially, a strong, powerful, spirited horse for military service; a charger. {War paint}, paint put on the face and other parts of the body by savages, as a token of going to war. [bd]Wash the war paint from your faces.[b8] --Longfellow. {War song}, a song of or pertaining to war; especially, among the American Indians, a song at the war dance, full of incitements to military ardor. {War whoop}, a war cry, especially that uttered by the American Indians.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Warehouseman \Ware"house`man\, n.; pl. {Warehousemen}. 1. One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store. 2. One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. [Eng.] {Warehouseman's itch} (Med.), a form of eczema occurring on the back of the hands of warehousemen.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Warehouseman \Ware"house`man\, n.; pl. {Warehousemen}. 1. One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store. 2. One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. [Eng.] {Warehouseman's itch} (Med.), a form of eczema occurring on the back of the hands of warehousemen.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Warehouseman \Ware"house`man\, n.; pl. {Warehousemen}. 1. One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store. 2. One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. [Eng.] {Warehouseman's itch} (Med.), a form of eczema occurring on the back of the hands of warehousemen.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Warehouse \Ware"house`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warehoused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warehousing}.] 1. To deposit or secure in a warehouse. 2. To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Warehousing \Ware"hous`ing\, n. The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. {Warehousing system}, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If re[89]xported, they are not charged with a duty. See {Bonded warehouse}, under {Bonded}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Warehousing \Ware"hous`ing\, n. The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. {Warehousing system}, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If re[89]xported, they are not charged with a duty. See {Bonded warehouse}, under {Bonded}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Warison \War"i*son\, n. [OF. warison safety, supplies, cure, F. gu[82]rison cure. See {Warish}, v. t.] 1. Preparation; protection; provision; supply. [Obs.] 2. Reward; requital; guerdon. [Obs. or Scot.] Wit and wisdom is good warysoun. --Proverbs of Hending.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wearisome \Wea"risome\, a. Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --Shak. Syn: Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying; vexatious. See {Irksome}. -- {Wea"risomely}, adv. -- {Wea"risome*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wearisome \Wea"risome\, a. Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --Shak. Syn: Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying; vexatious. See {Irksome}. -- {Wea"risomely}, adv. -- {Wea"risome*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wearisome \Wea"risome\, a. Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --Shak. Syn: Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying; vexatious. See {Irksome}. -- {Wea"risomely}, adv. -- {Wea"risome*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whoreson \Whore"son\, n. A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively. [Archaic] --Shak.
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Whorish \Whor"ish\, a. Resembling a whore in character or conduct; addicted to unlawful pleasures; incontinent; lewd; unchaste. -- {Whor"ishly}, adv. -- {Whor"ishness}, n.
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Wire gun \Wire gun\ = {Wire-wound gun}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Work \Work\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Worked}, or {Wrought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Working}.] [AS. wyrcean (imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht); akin to OFries. werka, wirka, OS. wirkian, D. werken, G. wirken, Icel. verka, yrkja, orka, Goth. wa[a3]rkjan. [fb]145. See {Work}, n.] 1. To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like. O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness? --Shak. Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you. --Ex. v. 18. Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass. --Sir J. Davies. 2. Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well. We bend to that the working of the heart. --Shak. 3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. --Rom. viii. 28. This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught. --Locke. She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. --Hawthorne. 4. To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil. They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded. --Isa. xix. 9. 5. To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea. Confused with working sands and rolling waves. --Addison. 6. To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth. Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. --Milton. 7. To ferment, as a liquid. The working of beer when the barm is put in. --Bacon. 8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic. Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. --Grew.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beam \Beam\, n. [AS. be[a0]m beam, post, tree, ray of light; akin to OFries. b[be]m tree, OS. b[?]m, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[?]mr, Goth. bahms and Gr. [?] a growth, [?] to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod, spoke of a wheel, beam or ray, and G. strahl arrow, spoke of a wheel, ray or beam, flash of lightning. [?]97. See {Be}; cf. {Boom} a spar.] 1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. 2. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. --Totten. 3. The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. 4. The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. --Pope. 5. The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. 6. The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] --Dryden. 7. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. 8. The straight part or shank of an anchor. 9. The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. 10. (Steam Engine) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also {working beam} or {walking beam}. 11. A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. How far that little candle throws his beams ! --Shak. 12. Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. Mercy with her genial beam. --Keble. 13. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also {beam feather}. {Abaft the beam} (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the direction of her beams, and that point of the compass toward which her stern is directed. {Beam center} (Mach.), the fulcrum or pin on which the working beam of an engine vibrates. {Beam compass}, an instrument consisting of a rod or beam, having sliding sockets that carry steel or pencil points; -- used for drawing or describing large circles. {Beam engine}, a steam engine having a working beam to transmit power, in distinction from one which has its piston rod attached directly to the crank of the wheel shaft. {Before the beam} (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon included between a line that crosses the ship at right angles and that point of the compass toward which the ship steers. {On the beam}, in a line with the beams, or at right angled with the keel. {On the weather beam}, on the side of a ship which faces the wind. {To be on her beam ends}, to incline, as a vessel, so much on one side that her beams approach a vertical position.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beam \Beam\, n. [AS. be[a0]m beam, post, tree, ray of light; akin to OFries. b[be]m tree, OS. b[?]m, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[?]mr, Goth. bahms and Gr. [?] a growth, [?] to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod, spoke of a wheel, beam or ray, and G. strahl arrow, spoke of a wheel, ray or beam, flash of lightning. [?]97. See {Be}; cf. {Boom} a spar.] 1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. 2. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. --Totten. 3. The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. 4. The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. --Pope. 5. The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. 6. The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] --Dryden. 7. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. 8. The straight part or shank of an anchor. 9. The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. 10. (Steam Engine) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also {working beam} or {walking beam}. 11. A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. How far that little candle throws his beams ! --Shak. 12. Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. Mercy with her genial beam. --Keble. 13. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also {beam feather}. {Abaft the beam} (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the direction of her beams, and that point of the compass toward which her stern is directed. {Beam center} (Mach.), the fulcrum or pin on which the working beam of an engine vibrates. {Beam compass}, an instrument consisting of a rod or beam, having sliding sockets that carry steel or pencil points; -- used for drawing or describing large circles. {Beam engine}, a steam engine having a working beam to transmit power, in distinction from one which has its piston rod attached directly to the crank of the wheel shaft. {Before the beam} (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon included between a line that crosses the ship at right angles and that point of the compass toward which the ship steers. {On the beam}, in a line with the beams, or at right angled with the keel. {On the weather beam}, on the side of a ship which faces the wind. {To be on her beam ends}, to incline, as a vessel, so much on one side that her beams approach a vertical position.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n. {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers. {Born days}. See under {Born}. {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}. {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight. {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}. {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common Prayer. {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill. {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit. {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley. {Days of grace}. See {Grace}. {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley. {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk owl}. {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day. {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school. {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}. {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day. {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset. {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year. {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.[b8] --Shak. {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. --Bacon. {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time. {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S. Butler. {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day. {Working day}. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Model \Mod"el\, n. [F. mod[8a]le, It. modello, fr. (assumed) L. modellus, fr. modulus a small measure, dim. of modus. See {Mode}, and cf. {Module}.] 1. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size. In charts, in maps, and eke in models made. --Gascoigne. I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal. --Shak. You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. --Addison. 2. Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine. [The application for a patent] must be accompanied by a full description of the invention, with drawings and a model where the case admits of it. --Am. Cyc. When we mean to build We first survey the plot, then draw the model. --Shak. 3. Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior. 4. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard. He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model. --South. 5. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact. Thou seest thy wretched brother die, Who was the model of thy father's life. --Shak. 6. A person who poses as a pattern to an artist. A professional model. --H. James. {Working model}, a model of a machine which can do on a small scale the work which the machine itself does, or expected to do.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pit \Pit\, n. [OE. pit, put, AS. pytt a pit, hole, L. puteus a well, pit.] 1. A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation; specifically: (a) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit. (b) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit. (c) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit. Tumble me into some loathsome pit. --Shak. 2. Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades. Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained. --Milton. He keepth back his soul from the pit. --Job xxxiii. 18. 3. A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively. The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits. --Lam. iv. 20. 4. A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body; as: (a) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit. (b) See {Pit of the stomach} (below). (c) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox. 5. Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater. 6. An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats. [bd]As fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit.[b8] --Locke. 7. [Cf. D. pit, akin to E. pith.] (Bot.) (a) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc. (b) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct. {Cold pit} (Hort.), an excavation in the earth, lined with masonry or boards, and covered with glass, but not artificially heated, -- used in winter for the storing and protection of half-hardly plants, and sometimes in the spring as a forcing bed. {Pit coal}, coal dug from the earth; mineral coal. {Pit frame}, the framework over the shaft of a coal mine. {Pit head}, the surface of the ground at the mouth of a pit or mine. {Pit kiln}, an oven for coking coal. {Pit martin} (Zo[94]l.), the bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.] {Pit of the stomach} (Anat.), the depression on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. {Pit saw} (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of the latter is often in a pit, whence the name. {Pit viper} (Zo[94]l.), any viperine snake having a deep pit on each side of the snout. The rattlesnake and copperhead are examples. {Working pit} (Min.), a shaft in which the ore is hoisted and the workmen carried; -- in distinction from a shaft used for the pumps.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working-day \Work"ing-day\, a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workingman \Work"ing*man\, n.; pl. {Workingmen}. A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workingman \Work"ing*man\, n.; pl. {Workingmen}. A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workman \Work"man\, n.; pl. {Workmen}. [AS. weorcmann.] 1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workmanlike \Work"man*like`\, a. Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workmanly \Work"man*ly\, a. Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workmanly \Work"man*ly\, adv. In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workmanship \Work"man*ship\, n. 1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. --Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. --Milton. 2. That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor. Not any skilled in workmanship embossed. --Spenser. By how much Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by being the immediate workmanship of God. --Sir W. Raleigh.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workmaster \Work"mas`ter\, n. The performer of any work; a master workman. [R.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workman \Work"man\, n.; pl. {Workmen}. [AS. weorcmann.] 1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workmen's compensation act \Workmen's compensation act\ (Law) A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of [bd]serious and willful misconduct,[b8] a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accident where the common law gives the right only for negligence of the employer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workwoman \Work"wom`an\, n.; pl. {Workwomen}, n. A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Workwoman \Work"wom`an\, n.; pl. {Workwomen}, n. A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Worrisome \Wor"ri*some\, a. Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Worsen \Wors"en\, v. i. To grow or become worse. --De Quincey. Indifferent health, which seemed rather to worsen than improve. --Carlyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Worsen \Wors"en\, v. t. 1. To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair. It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened. --Southey. 2. To get the better of; to worst. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wreaken \Wreak"en\, obs. p. p. of {Wreak}. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wreak \Wreak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wreaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wreaking}.] [OE. wrek[?][?] to revenge, punish, drive out, AS. wrecan; akin to OFries. wreka, OS. wrekan to punish, D. wreken to avenge, G. r[84]chen, OHG. rehhan, Icel. reka to drive, to take vengeance, Goth. wrikan to persecute, Lith. vargas distress, vargti to suffer distress, L. urgere to drive, urge, Gr. [?] to shut, Skr. [?] to turn away. Cf. {Urge}, {Wreck}, {Wretch}.] 1. To revenge; to avenge. [Archaic] He should wreake him on his foes. --Chaucer. Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself. --Spenser. Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. --Fairfax. 2. To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy. On me let Death wreak all his rage. --Milton. Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years. --Macaulay. But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave. --Bryant.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrecked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wrecking}.] 1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck. Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. --Shak. 2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. 3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves. --Daniel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrecking \Wreck"ing\, a. & n. from {Wreck}, v. {Wrecking car} (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. {Wrecking pump}, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrecking \Wreck"ing\, a. & n. from {Wreck}, v. {Wrecking car} (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. {Wrecking pump}, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrecking \Wreck"ing\, a. & n. from {Wreck}, v. {Wrecking car} (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. {Wrecking pump}, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wreck-master \Wreck"-mas`ter\, n. A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wroken \Wro"ken\, obs. p. p. of {Wreak}. --Chaucer.
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W Harrison, IN Zip code(s): 47060
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Ware County, GA (county, FIPS 299) Location: 31.05156 N, 82.42208 W Population (1990): 35471 (14628 housing units) Area: 2337.7 sq km (land), 10.4 sq km (water)
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Warrick County, IN (county, FIPS 173) Location: 38.09837 N, 87.27148 W Population (1990): 44920 (16926 housing units) Area: 994.8 sq km (land), 17.6 sq km (water)
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Warson Woods, MO (city, FIPS 77182) Location: 38.60687 N, 90.39152 W Population (1990): 2049 (783 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Wauregan, CT (CDP, FIPS 80630) Location: 41.75256 N, 71.91165 W Population (1990): 1079 (403 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
working as designed adj. [IBM] 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specification; useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility. 3. Unfortunately also used as a bogus reason for not accepting a criticism or suggestion. At {IBM}, this sense is used in official documents! See {BAD}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
WarGames (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy {cracker} using a {wardialer} to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a {backdoor} into "Whopper", a ficticious {C3} computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play. {IMDb (http://us.imdb.com/Title?WarGames+%281983%29)}. (1999-03-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Work Needed and Prospective Packages (WNPP) A document, maintained on the {Debian} {web site} {here (http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/)}, providing a current list of packages which are either orphaned (withdrawn from distribution), maintained but its developer would like to find a new person, currently being worked on to include in the distribution, or good ideas with no one working on them. WNPP is also a pseudo package on the Debian Bug Tracking System. Developers update the WNPP document by filing, modifying or closing bugs agains the psuedo package. (2000-09-06)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
working as designed (IBM) Conforming to a wrong or inappropriate specification; useful, but misdesigned. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility or as a bogus reason for not accepting a criticism or suggestion. At {IBM}, this sense is used in official documents! See {BAD}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-04)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
working set The set of all pages (in a {paging} {virtual memory} system) used by a {process} during some time interval. As a result of {locality of reference}, the working set frequently consists of a relatively small fraction of a process's total virtual memory pages. While a process's entire working set is in {physical memory} the process will run without {page faults}. If the working set is too large for available physical memory, the process causes frequent {page faults}. In a {multitasking} environment, information about which pages are in each process's working set allows the memory management system to improve {CPU} efficiency by {prepaging} (also called the {working set model}). ["Modern Operating Systems", Andrew S. Tanenbaum, pub. Prentice Hall, Inc. 1992]. (1997-04-09)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
working set model {prepaging}