WORKING OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does working out mean? 

• WORKING OUT (noun)
  The noun WORKING OUT has 1 sense:

1. developing in intricate and painstaking detail

  Familiarity information: WORKING OUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKING OUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Developing in intricate and painstaking detail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

elaboration; working out

Hypernyms ("working out" is a kind of...):

development (act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining)

 Context examples 

Besides, there are one or two details which are not finished off, and it is one of those cases which are worth working out to the very end.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Considering how much work is coming through your office, working out would be a perfect way to keep stress at bay.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

While the cooking mania lasted she went through Mrs. Cornelius's Receipt Book as if it were a mathematical exercise, working out the problems with patience and care.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) or the result of this activity.

(Design, NCI Thesaurus)

If you only knew the problem I have to face, and that I am working out, you would pity, and tolerate, and pardon me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I went up to my London rooms, where I spent seven weeks working out a few experiments in organic chemistry.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet he was absolutely incapable of working out the practical points which must be gone into before a case could be laid before a judge or jury.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars will circulate in Libra until November 18, so the first three weeks of November will find you working out the details of a strategy and getting ready for a launch or debut of something new.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Our boat lay, rising and falling, upon the long, smooth rollers, and Evans and I, who were the most educated of the party, were sitting in the sheets working out our position and planning what coast we should make for.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)