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works
(mass) | works
- továreň |
works
(encz) | works,průmyslový podnik Mgr. Dita Gálová |
works
(encz) | works,továrna Mgr. Dita Gálová |
works
(encz) | works,závod n: |
works
(encz) | works,závody n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
works
(wn) | works
n 1: buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a
large plant to manufacture automobiles" [syn: plant,
works, industrial plant]
2: everything available; usually preceded by `the'; "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, works, {full
treatment}]
3: performance of moral or religious acts; "salvation by deeds";
"the reward for good works" [syn: works, deeds]
4: the internal mechanism of a device [syn: works, workings] |
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printing works
(mass) | printing works
- tlačiareň |
workshop
(mass) | workshop
- dielňa |
workspace
(mass) | workspace
- pracovný priestor |
artworks
(encz) | artworks,umělecká díla Zdeněk Brož |
be in the works
(encz) | be in the works,být na čem pracováno [fráz.] Pinobe in the works,být v plánu [fráz.] Pino |
car repair workshop
(encz) | car repair workshop,autodílna n: Pino |
dye-works
(encz) | dye-works, n: |
ex works price
(encz) | ex works price, |
fireworks
(encz) | fireworks,ohňostroj Hynek Hanke |
frameworks
(encz) | frameworks,kostry n: pl. Zdeněk Brožframeworks,soustavy n: pl. Zdeněk Brožframeworks,stavby n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
gasworks
(encz) | gasworks,plynárna n: Zdeněk Brož |
glassworks
(encz) | glassworks,sklárna n: Pino |
in the works
(encz) | in the works, |
iron works
(encz) | iron works,huť Zdeněk Brož |
ironworks
(encz) | ironworks,železárny n: Zdeněk Brož |
it works
(encz) | it works, |
machine-works
(encz) | machine-works,strojírna n: Zdeněk Brož |
metalworks
(encz) | metalworks,železárna n: Zdeněk Brožmetalworks,železárny n: Zdeněk Brož |
networks
(encz) | networks,sítě n: pl. [it.] počítačové |
of works
(encz) | of works,děl |
printing works
(encz) | printing works,tiskárna Zdeněk Brož |
public works
(encz) | public works, |
saltworks
(encz) | saltworks, n: |
sewage works
(encz) | sewage works, n: |
sheltered workshop
(encz) | sheltered workshop, n: |
smelting works
(encz) | smelting works,huť Zdeněk Brož |
steelworks
(encz) | steelworks,ocelárna n: Zdeněk Brož |
the whole works
(encz) | the whole works, |
throw a monkey wrench into the works
(encz) | throw a monkey wrench into the works, |
water works
(encz) | water works,vodárna n: Zdeněk Brož |
waterworks
(encz) | waterworks,vodárna n: Zdeněk Brožwaterworks,vodárny n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
waxworks
(encz) | waxworks,panoptikum Zdeněk Brož |
whole works
(encz) | whole works, n: |
works committee
(encz) | works committee,závodní rada n: |
works council
(encz) | works council,závodní rada n: |
works program
(encz) | works program, n: |
worksheet
(encz) | worksheet,list s pracovními poznámkami n: PetrVworksheet,pracovní výkaz n: PetrV |
workshop
(encz) | workshop,dílna n: workshop,seminář n: |
workshops
(encz) | workshops,semináře n: pl. Martin Ligač |
workshy
(encz) | workshy,líný adj: t.tel |
workspace
(encz) | workspace,pracovní plocha n: Zdeněk Brož |
workstation
(encz) | workstation,pracovní stanice n: [it.] |
workstations
(encz) | workstations,pracovní stanice n: pl. [it.] Martin Ligač |
works for me
(czen) | Works For Me,WFM[zkr.] |
Brick works
(gcide) | Brick \Brick\ (br[i^]k), n. [OE. brik, F. brique; of Ger.
origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique
piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hl[=a]fes brice, fr. the
root of E. break. See Break.]
1. A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded
into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried,
or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
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The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of
bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians.
--Layard.
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2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of
material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
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Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick.
--Weale.
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3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a
penny brick (of bread).
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4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
[Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." --Thackeray.
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To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]
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Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick
wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red.
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Brick clay, clay suitable for, or used in making, bricks.
Brick dust, dust of pounded or broken bricks.
Brick earth, clay or earth suitable for, or used in making,
bricks.
Brick loaf, a loaf of bread somewhat resembling a brick in
shape.
Brick nogging (Arch.), rough brickwork used to fill in the
spaces between the uprights of a wooden partition; brick
filling.
Brick tea, tea leaves and young shoots, or refuse tea,
steamed or mixed with fat, etc., and pressed into the form
of bricks. It is used in Northern and Central Asia. --S.
W. Williams.
Brick trimmer (Arch.), a brick arch under a hearth, usually
within the thickness of a wooden floor, to guard against
accidents by fire.
Brick trowel. See Trowel.
Brick works, a place where bricks are made.
Bath brick. See under Bath, a city.
Pressed brick, bricks which, before burning, have been
subjected to pressure, to free them from the imperfections
of shape and texture which are common in molded bricks.
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Coal works
(gcide) | Coal works \Coal" works\
A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for
raising the coal.
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Copper works
(gcide) | Copper works \Cop"per works`\
A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. --Woodward.
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Deadworks
(gcide) | Deadworks \Dead"works`\, n. pl. (Naut.)
The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
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False works
(gcide) | False \False\, a. [Compar. Falser; superl. Falsest.] [L.
falsus, p. p. of fallere to deceive; cf. OF. faus, fals, F.
faux, and AS. fals fraud. See Fail, Fall.]
1. Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit;
dishnest; as, a false witness.
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2. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance,
vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false
friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
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I to myself was false, ere thou to me. --Milton.
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3. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or
likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
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4. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive;
counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty;
false colors; false jewelry.
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
--Shak.
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5. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as,
a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in
grammar.
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Whose false foundation waves have swept away.
--Spenser.
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6. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which
are temporary or supplemental.
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7. (Mus.) Not in tune.
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False arch (Arch.), a member having the appearance of an
arch, though not of arch construction.
False attic, an architectural erection above the main
cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or
inclosing rooms.
False bearing, any bearing which is not directly upon a
vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has
a false bearing.
False cadence, an imperfect or interrupted cadence.
False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a
mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a
properly organized fetus.
False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx
attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but
unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane.
False door or False window (Arch.), the representation of
a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors
or windows or to give symmetry.
False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war,
chiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the
purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for
decoying a vessel to destruction.
False galena. See Blende.
False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a
person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or
the unlawful detaining of a person in custody.
False keel (Naut.), the timber below the main keel, used to
serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's
lateral resistance.
False key, a picklock.
False leg. (Zool.) See Proleg.
False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in
croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an
animal membrane.
False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship giving
false representations respecting her cargo, destination,
etc., for the purpose of deceiving.
False passage (Surg.), an unnatural passage leading off
from a natural canal, such as the urethra, and produced
usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments.
False personation (Law), the intentional false assumption
of the name and personality of another.
False pretenses (Law), false representations concerning
past or present facts and events, for the purpose of
defrauding another.
False rail (Naut.), a thin piece of timber placed on top of
the head rail to strengthen it.
False relation (Mus.), a progression in harmony, in which a
certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed
by a flat or sharp.
False return (Law), an untrue return made to a process by
the officer to whom it was delivered for execution.
False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are
five pairs in man.
False roof (Arch.), the space between the upper ceiling and
the roof. --Oxford Gloss.
False token, a false mark or other symbol, used for
fraudulent purposes.
False scorpion (Zool.), any arachnid of the genus
Chelifer. See Book scorpion.
False tack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling
away again on the same tack.
False vampire (Zool.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South
America, formerly erroneously supposed to have
blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and {ghost
vampire}. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the
genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.
False window. (Arch.) See False door, above.
False wing. (Zool.) See Alula, and Bastard wing, under
Bastard.
False works (Civil Engin.), construction works to
facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding,
bridge centering, etc.
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Glass works
(gcide) | Glass \Glass\ (gl[.a]s), n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[ae]s; akin
to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf.
AS. gl[ae]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. Glare, n., Glaze, v.
t.]
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1. A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent
substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture,
and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime,
potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes
and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for
lenses, and various articles of ornament.
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Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides;
thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous),
red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium,
yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown;
gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium,
emerald green; antimony, yellow.
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2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance,
and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
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3. Anything made of glass. Especially:
(a) A looking-glass; a mirror.
(b) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time;
an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a
vessel is exhausted of its sand.
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She would not live
The running of one glass. --Shak.
(c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the
contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous
liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
(d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the
plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears
glasses.
(e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
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Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as,
glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or
glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
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Bohemian glass, Cut glass, etc. See under Bohemian,
Cut, etc.
Crown glass, a variety of glass, used for making the finest
plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of
silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of
lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of
crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it
in the process of blowing.
Crystal glass, or Flint glass. See Flint glass, in the
Vocabulary.
Cylinder glass, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in
the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally,
opened out, and flattened.
Glass of antimony, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with
sulphide.
Glass cloth, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
Glass coach, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for
the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so
called because originally private carriages alone had
glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
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Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from
which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this
term, which is never used in America, hired
carriages that do not go on stands. --J. F.
Cooper.
Glass cutter.
(a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window
panes, ets.
(b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and
polishing.
(c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for
cutting glass.
Glass cutting.
(a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of
glass into panes with a diamond.
(b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by
appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand,
emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied;
especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth
ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental
scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
Glass metal, the fused material for making glass.
Glass painting, the art or process of producing decorative
effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and
combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of
lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting
and glass staining (see Glass staining, below) are used
indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows,
and the like.
Glass paper, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used
for abrasive purposes.
Glass silk, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion,
on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
Glass silvering, the process of transforming plate glass
into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a
deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
Glass soap, or Glassmaker's soap, the black oxide of
manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take
away color from the materials for glass.
Glass staining, the art or practice of coloring glass in
its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in
a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass.
Cf. Glass painting.
Glass tears. See Rupert's drop.
Glass works, an establishment where glass is made.
Heavy glass, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially
of a borosilicate of potash.
Millefiore glass. See Millefiore.
Plate glass, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates,
and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and
the best windows.
Pressed glass, glass articles formed in molds by pressure
when hot.
Soluble glass (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium,
found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder,
or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for
rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial
stone, etc.; -- called also water glass.
Spun glass, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
Toughened glass, Tempered glass, glass finely tempered or
annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by
plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine,
etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the
process, Bastie glass.
Water glass. (Chem.) See Soluble glass, above.
Window glass, glass in panes suitable for windows.
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glassworks
(gcide) | glassworks \glassworks\ n.
a place where glass is made.
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Iron works
(gcide) | Iron \I"ron\ ([imac]"[u^]rn), a. [AS. [imac]ren, [imac]sen. See
Iron, n.]
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1. Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar,
dust.
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2. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness.
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3. Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of
endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:
(a) Rude; hard; harsh; severe.
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Iron years of wars and dangers. --Rowe.
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Jove crushed the nations with an iron rod.
--Pope.
(b) Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution.
(c) Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will.
(d) Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious.
"Him death's iron sleep oppressed." --Philips.
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Note: Iron is often used in composition, denoting made of
iron, relating to iron, of or with iron; producing
iron, etc.; resembling iron, literally or figuratively,
in some of its properties or characteristics; as,
iron-shod, iron-sheathed, iron-fisted, iron-framed,
iron-handed, iron-hearted, iron foundry or
iron-foundry.
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Iron age.
(a) (Myth.) The age following the golden, silver, and
bronze ages, and characterized by a general
degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary
excellence. In Roman literature the Iron Age is
commonly regarded as beginning after the taking of
Rome by the Goths, A. D. 410.
(b) (Arch[ae]ol.) That stage in the development of any
people characterized by the use of iron implements in
the place of the more cumbrous stone and bronze.
Iron cement, a cement for joints, composed of cast-iron
borings or filings, sal ammoniac, etc.
Iron clay (Min.), a yellowish clay containing a large
proportion of an ore of iron.
Iron cross, a German, and before that Prussian, order of
military merit; also, the decoration of the order.
Iron crown, a golden crown set with jewels, belonging
originally to the Lombard kings, and indicating the
dominion of Italy. It was so called from containing a
circle said to have been forged from one of the nails in
the cross of Christ.
Iron flint (Min.), an opaque, flintlike, ferruginous
variety of quartz.
Iron founder, a maker of iron castings.
Iron foundry, the place where iron castings are made.
Iron furnace, a furnace for reducing iron from the ore, or
for melting iron for castings, etc.; a forge; a
reverberatory; a bloomery.
Iron glance (Min.), hematite.
Iron hat, a headpiece of iron or steel, shaped like a hat
with a broad brim, and used as armor during the Middle
Ages.
Iron horse, a locomotive engine. [Colloq.]
Iron liquor, a solution of an iron salt, used as a mordant
by dyers.
Iron man (Cotton Manuf.), a name for the self-acting
spinning mule.
Iron mold or Iron mould, a yellow spot on cloth stained
by rusty iron.
Iron ore (Min.), any native compound of iron from which the
metal may be profitably extracted. The principal ores are
magnetite, hematite, siderite, limonite, G["o]thite,
turgite, and the bog and clay iron ores.
Iron pyrites (Min.), common pyrites, or pyrite. See
Pyrites.
Iron sand, an iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron
ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.
Iron scale, the thin film which forms on the surface of
wrought iron in the process of forging. It consists
essentially of the magnetic oxide of iron, Fe3O4.
Iron works, a furnace where iron is smelted, or a forge,
rolling mill, or foundry, where it is made into heavy
work, such as shafting, rails, cannon, merchant bar, etc.
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See under Iron, a.
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Print works
(gcide) | Print \Print\, n. [See Print, v., Imprint, n.]
1. A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or
indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another;
as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the
foot in sand or snow.
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Where print of human feet was never seen. --Dryden.
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2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental
design upon an object; as, a butter print.
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3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or
mold; as, a print of butter.
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4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to
excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large
print; this line is in print.
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5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically:
(a) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved
plate. "The prints which we see of antiquities."
--Dryden.
(b) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or
other periodical. --Addison.
(c) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping,
especially calico or cotton cloth.
(d) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared
paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on
transparent paper.
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6. (Founding) A core print. See under Core.
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Blue print, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a
drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in
blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic
printing on peculiarly prepared paper.
In print.
(a) In a printed form; issued from the press; published.
--Shak.
(b) To the letter; with accurateness. "All this I speak in
print." --Shak.
Out of print. See under Out.
Print works, a factory where cloth, as calico, is printed.
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Public works
(gcide) | Public \Pub"lic\, a. [L. publicus, poblicus, fr. populus people:
cf. F. public. See People.]
1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people;
relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community;
-- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.
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To the public good
Private respects must yield. --Milton.
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He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of
the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. --D.
Webster.
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2. Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common;
notorious; as, public report; public scandal.
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Joseph, . . . not willing to make her a public
example, was minded to put her away privily. --Matt.
i. 19.
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3. Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public
house. "The public street." --Shak.
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public act or public statute (Law), an act or statute
affecting matters of public concern. Of such statutes the
courts take judicial notice.
Public credit. See under Credit.
Public funds. See Fund, 3.
Public house, an inn, or house of entertainment.
Public law.
(a) See International law, under International.
(b) A public act or statute.
Public nuisance. (Law) See under Nuisance.
Public orator. (Eng. Universities) See Orator, 3.
Public stores, military and naval stores, equipments, etc.
Public works, all fixed works built by civil engineers for
public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but
strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed
at the public cost.
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Stream works
(gcide) | Stream \Stream\ (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre['a]m; akin to OFries.
str[=a]m, OS. str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum,
str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw. str["o]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth,
Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to
flow, Skr. sru. [root]174. Cf. Catarrh, Diarrhea,
Rheum, Rhythm.]
1. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing
continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as
a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or
fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as,
many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam
came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead
from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
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2. A beam or ray of light. "Sun streams." --Chaucer.
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3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of
parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. "The
stream of beneficence." --Atterbury. "The stream of
emigration." --Macaulay.
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4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
"The very stream of his life." --Shak.
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5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving
causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
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Gulf stream. See under Gulf.
Stream anchor, Stream cable. (Naut.) See under Anchor,
and Cable.
Stream ice, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in
some definite direction.
Stream tin, particles or masses of tin ore found in
alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is
the principal agent used in separating the ore from the
sand and gravel.
Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial
deposit of tin ore is worked. --Ure.
To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the
current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or
check it.
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Syn: Current; flow; rush; tide; course.
Usage: Stream, Current. These words are often properly
interchangeable; but stream is the broader word,
denoting a prevailing onward course. The stream of the
Mississippi rolls steadily on to the Gulf of Mexico,
but there are reflex currents in it which run for a
while in a contrary direction.
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Upper works
(gcide) | Upper \Up"per\, a.; comp. of Up.
Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place,
position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper
lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a
legislature.
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The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See {To
have the upper hand}, under Hand. --Jowett (Thucyd.).
Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highest court of
common law (formerly King's Bench) during the
Commonwealth.
Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor's cases.
See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
Upper covert (Zool.), one of the coverts situated above the
bases of the tail quills.
Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the
spar deck.
Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of
shoes.
Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually
of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes.
Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten
thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or
wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.]
Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail.
Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a
vessel that are properly above water.
Upper world.
(a) The atmosphere.
(b) Heaven.
(c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the
underworld.
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Waxworks
(gcide) | Waxworks \Wax"works`\, n. pl.
An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition; as,
Madame Toussaud's Waxworks.
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Works of supererogation
(gcide) | Supererogation \Su`per*er`o*ga"tion\, n. [L. supererogatio a
payment in addition.]
The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or
necessity requires.
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Works of supererogation (R. C. Ch.), those good deeds
believed to have been performed by saints, or capable of
being performed by men, over and above what is required
for their own salvation.
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Workship
(gcide) | Workship \Work"ship\, n.
Workmanship. [R.]
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Workshop
(gcide) | Workshop \Work"shop`\, n.
A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
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dye-works
(wn) | dye-works
n 1: a workshop where dyeing is done |
gasworks
(wn) | gasworks
n 1: the workplace where coal gas is manufactured |
glassworks
(wn) | glassworks
n 1: a workplace where glass is made |
ironworks
(wn) | ironworks
n 1: the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are
made |
metalworks
(wn) | metalworks
n 1: factory where metal castings are produced [syn: foundry,
metalworks] |
public works
(wn) | public works
n 1: structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or
docks) constructed at government expense for public use |
saltworks
(wn) | saltworks
n 1: a plant where salt is produced commercially |
sewage works
(wn) | sewage works
n 1: facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off
liquid and solid sewage [syn: sewage system, {sewer
system}, sewage works] |
sheltered workshop
(wn) | sheltered workshop
n 1: a workshop that offers jobs to members of the physically or
developmentally disabled population |
steelworks
(wn) | steelworks
n 1: a factory where steel is made [syn: steel mill,
steelworks, steel plant, steel factory] |
waterworks
(wn) | waterworks
n 1: a public utility that provides water [syn: water company,
waterworks]
2: workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed
for a community |
whole works
(wn) | whole works
n 1: everything available; usually preceded by `the'; "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, works, {full
treatment}] |
works council
(wn) | works council
n 1: (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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