Dictionary entry details
• WORKS (noun)
Meaning:
Buildings for carrying on industrial labor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
industrial plant; plant; works
Context example:
they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles
Hypernyms ("works" is a kind of...):
building complex; complex (a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures)
Domain member category:
gas system (facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "works"):
bottling plant (a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps)
disposal plant; sewage disposal plant (a plant for disposing of sewage)
saltworks (a plant where salt is produced commercially)
refinery (an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance)
recycling plant (a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials)
packing plant; packinghouse (a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products)
mint (a plant where money is coined by authority of the government)
factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)
distillery; still (a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation)
brewery (a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation)
smelter; smeltery (an industrial plant for smelting)
Meaning:
Everything available; usually preceded by 'the'
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
whole works; whole shebang; whole kit and caboodle; whole kit and boodle; whole kit; whole caboodle; kit and caboodle; kit and boodle; full treatment; works
Context examples:
we saw the whole shebang / a hotdog with the works / we took on the whole caboodle / for $10 you get the full treatment
Hypernyms ("works" is a kind of...):
entireness; entirety; integrality; totality (the state of being total and complete)
Meaning:
Performance of moral or religious acts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
deeds; works
Context examples:
salvation by deeds / the reward for good works
Hypernyms ("works" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Meaning:
The internal mechanism of a device
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
workings; works
Hypernyms ("works" is a kind of...):
mechanism (device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
