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working(2) (iou) and Biot's breathing sign (medicine)


working(2) (iou)



working noun. ME.
[from WORK verb + -ING1.]
I. gen.
The action of WORK verb; an instance or the result of this; the activity or performance of work; the way a thing works. (Foll. by -off, -out, -over, -up, etc.) ME.
Westminster Gazette Working is agreeable to my Nature and to my Health. Guardian The government said it would improve the working of the economy.
II.
a. collect. sing. & in pl. A person's actions or deeds. arch. LME.
W. P. Mackay In the twelfth chapter of Revelation we have depicted a remarkable series of Satan's workings.
b. collect. sing. & (now usu.) in pl. The processes or functioning of the mind, conscience, etc. L16.
N. Rowe The secret workings of my Brain Stand all reveal'd to thee.
a. Performance or execution of a particular work or act. LME-L17.
b. Freemasonry. (The observance of) a rite, a system of ritual. L19.
Making, manufacture, construction; the manner or style in which something is made, handiwork, workmanship. LME-E18.
The action of operating or performing work on something, manipulation, Management; spec. (a) exploitation of the resources of (a mine, quarry, etc.); (b) the putting into operation of a scheme, system, legislation, etc. LME.
W. Raleigh The working of a Myne There. J. Moxon A piece of Ivory..strong enough to bear working till they bring it to as small a Cilinder as they can.
Influential operation; influence, effectiveness. arch. LME.
Mathematical calculation or calculations. Now chiefly spec., the record of the successive steps taken or calculations made in solving a mathematical problem. Cf. WORK noun 7. LME.
Aching; pain (rare). Also, stomachic or intestinal disturbance. LME-E18.
Fermentation of liquor. M16.
Restless movement of water, esp. the sea; straining of a ship etc. so as to slacken the fastenings. L16.
b. Agitated twitching or convulsive movement of the face or features. E19.
The proper action or movement of (a part of) a machine etc. M17.
III. Decorative work. rare. M16-E18.
A mine, a quarry; a part of this which is being worked or has been worked. M18.
Mineral Magazine While examining and surveying the disused workings of the..mine.
Comb. (not all clearly separable from collocations of the adjective): working breakfast: see working lunch below; working copy: of a book or Other document used or annotated by someone working on its contents; working day (a) a workday; (b) the part of a day or amount of time per day devoted or allotted to work; working dinner: see working lunch below; working drawing a scale drawing of a building, machine, part, etc., serving as a guide in construction or manufacture; working hours: normally devoted to work; working-house = WORKHOUSE 1, 2; working hypothesis: used as a basis for action; working knowledge: adequate to work with; working load the maximum load that (a part of) a machine or Other structure is designed to bear; the amount of work a person is assigned to do; working lunch etc. a lunch etc. at which those present discuss business; working memory Psychology the part of short-term memory which is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing; working model: see MODEL noun 2b; working order the condition in which a machine, system, etc., works satisfactorily or in a specified way; working-out (a) the calculation of results; (b) the elaboration of details; working outline: forming the basis of a finished drawing; working party (a) Military a party detailed for a special piece of work outside ordinary duties; (b) (now Hist.) a group of women, meeting to do work (esp. Sewing) for a good cause; (c) a committee or group appointed to study and report on a particular question, and to make recommendations based on its findings; (d) a group of prisoners engaged on outdoor work, esp. outside the perimeter of the prison; working plan: serving as the basis for the construction of a building, Management of a project, etc.; working drawings; working space (a) Computing = working storage below; (b) = work-space (b) s.v. WORK noun; working storage Computing part of a computer's memory that is used by a program for the storage of intermediate results or Other temporary items; working surface, working top = worktop s.v. WORK noun.

Biot's breathing sign (medicine)


Biot's breathing sign
<clinical sign> Irregular periods of apnea alternating with four or five deep breaths; seen with increased intracranial pressure.