What is "workings"

Usage examples of "workings".

I was telling Evans one night, I remember, of some wonderful workings I had found whilst hunting koodoo and eland in what is now the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal.

I see they have come across these workings again lately in prospecting for gold, but I knew of them years ago.

What all these passages are, of course I cannot say, but we thought that they must be the ancient workings of a mine, of which the various shafts and adits travelled hither and thither as the ore led them.

Table-delicacies, paper, wooden shoes, hats, wax and earthenware are manufactured, and there are slate and millstone workings and dye-works.

Nick into the fold, allowing him more responsibility, more access to the inner workings of his business dealings.

The same process of destroying the heroic convention was further promoted by the ruthless analysis of the psychological workings that result in the display of courage, which are composed of vanity, lack of imagination, and stereotyped thinking.

Von Neumann made the astonishing assertion that the McCulloch-Pitts neural network model, on which his own digital computer architecture was based, was fundamentally flawed as a model for computing machines and even for understanding the workings of the brain itself.

I cannot describe the technical workings, but I believe such an artefact is the source of their knowledge.

The workings of the multi-stage refrigeration made a rushing sound beneath his feet.

The fact that one people are white, another yellow, another red, another brown, and yet another black has its cause in the workings of a law of nature which we do not fully understand.