Workshop
['wɜːkʃɒp] or ['wɝkʃɑp]
Definition
(noun.) a brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving.
(noun.) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done.
Typist: Yvette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see workshops in your dreams, foretells that you will use extraordinary schemes to undermine your enemies.
Editor: Segre
Examples
- He drove it back to his workshop and made certain changes in the reel and the divider. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As soon as he was settled at the Boston office he opened a small workshop, where he might try to complete some of the many devices he had in mind. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And his faith met with its reward, for one day in 1840 a stranger rode up to the door of his workshop and offered fifty dollars for a reaper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He gave up his workshop in New York and opened a factory and experimenting shop in Newark, New Jersey, where he would have plenty of room for himself and his assistants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Bell was in the workshop, and Watson in the next room. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The man from whom Bell rented his workshop was Charles Williams, himself a manufacturer of electrical supplies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This is the inventor’s own statement, but it gives a very meagre notion of the many months’ experimenting in his workshop while he hunted for a suitable filament for his electric light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- His observations on the effects of heat seem to have be en drawn from the common processes of the home and the workshop. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He saw his father busy in his workshop at all spare moments, and he took him as a pattern. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He spent a great part of his time now in his workshop, making and grinding glasses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When he got back to his factory in New Haven he found that fire had wiped out his workshop, together with all his gins and papers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr. McCormick tried the machine in the harvesting of 1816, but it would not work, and had to be carted away to the workshop as an invention gone wrong. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Watson, who helped him construct the two armatures, or vibrating discs, at the end of an electrified wire that stretched from the workshop to an adjoining room. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- One must have one's workshop, otherwise one never ceases to be an amateur. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He remained in Columbia until the roads, public buildings, workshops and everything that could be useful to the enemy were destroyed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A thoroughly equipped observatory was provided, including prin ting-press and workshops for the construc tion of apparatus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then he fitted up a corner of the baggage-car of his train as a miniature laboratory, and filled it with the bottles and retorts that had been discarded at the railroad workshops. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Two well-lighted rooms on the second floor, so placed as to be inaccessible to visitors, were chosen for the workshops. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Many factories and workshops had to close for want of fuel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He built his first engine in the workshops at the West Moor Mine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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