单词 | worked-out |
释义 | > as lemmasworked-out worked-out adj. (a) (of a mine, etc.) exhausted; cf. to work out 3 at work v. Phrasal verbs 1; (b) (of a plan, idea, etc.) formulated or developed in detail; cf. to work out 8 at work v. Phrasal verbs 1. Π 1800 J. Evans Tour N. Wales viii. 204 The mines were at length neglected for want of means for the reduction of the ore. This is the grand reason of so many of the apparent worked-out mines. 1854 C. Darwin Let. 31 Jan. in Corr. (1989) V. 172 I am, also, a slow worker, & have heaps of my own half-worked out materials. 1882 Rep. Director of Mint Production of Precious Metals 641 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (47th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 216) XXIII The worked-out space becomes more or less filled with bowlders. 1908 Stage Year Bk. 21 An ingeniously conceived and vigorously worked-out spectacle play. 1971 C. J. White Introd. Coal Mining Industry vii. 63 All worked-out sites are graded, levelled and drained. 2011 Independent 5 Dec. 42/1 Facebook didn't really have a worked-out policy on where its social network blurred into a commercial network. < as lemmas |
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