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# working

«working» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **doing a job, or doing its job right** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (form of work); adjective (working); noun (the working, workings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Working means doing a job, or doing its job right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#m1)

2) A working machine is one that is not broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#m2)

3) The working, or working out, of a maths problem is the steps written down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#m3)

4) Working people have jobs; working hours are the hours of a job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#m4)

5) A working model really moves or runs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: people working (time and pay); machines that work versus broken ones; «show your working» — the steps written down. In everyday life: working parents, working hours, a working lift, a working holiday. Phrases: «working hours», «in working order», «show your working», «hard-working».

### examples

- Each working after its own way, physically and spiritually. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x1)
- walking, seeing, hearing, working, coition, smelling, sleep, anger, swallowing and laughing. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x2)
- Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. (Writings PSA.52.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x3)
- Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. (Writings PSA.74.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x4)
- 5 people are working on the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x5)
- Only 8 of the 10 lamps are working. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x6)
- After working 4 hours she stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x7)
- The working shows each step. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x8)
- Show your working, not just the answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x9)
- Our science group built a working volcano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x10)
- The lift is not working, so use the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x11)
- She is very hard-working and always finishes her tasks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x12)
- "I wonder you'd be working on the holiday!" said Tom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/#x13)

### note

«Show your working» (UK) = «show your work» (US). Maths: «working» things are the good part (total − broken). The «working» of a problem is the steps written down — no number by itself.

### In the corpora

- [Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.866/)
- [Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1265/)
- [Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/)
- [Overtime is working extra hours beyond the normal ones; sometimes it is paid at a higher rate, sometimes not paid at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/8/)
- [At the other end of working life comes retirement, when people stop paid work for good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «working» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/working/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.