works

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noun

1. buildings for carrying on industrial labor (Freq. 5)
- they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles
• Syn:
plant, industrial plant
• Members of this Topic:
gas system
• Hypernyms:
building complex, complex
• Hyponyms:
bottling plant, brewery, distillery, still, factory,
mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory, mint, packinghouse, packing plant,
packing plant, refinery, saltworks, sewage disposal plant, disposal plant,
smelter, smeltery
2. performance of moral or religious acts (Freq. 1)
- salvation by deeds
- the reward for good works
• Syn:
deeds
• Usage Domain:
plural, plural form
• Hypernyms:
activity
3. everything available;
usually preceded by 'the' (Freq. 1)
- we saw the whole shebang
- a hotdog with the works
- we took on the whole caboodle
- for $10 you get the full treatment
• Syn:
whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle,
whole kit, whole caboodle, whole works, full treatment
• Hypernyms:
entirety, entireness, integrality, totality
4. the internal mechanism of a device
• Syn:
workings
• Usage Domain:
plural, plural form
• Hypernyms:
mechanism