All workings synonyms

noun workings

• structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
• system — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
• tool — an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
• apparatus — The apparatus of an organization or system is its structure and method of operation.
• appliance — An appliance is a device or machine in your home that you use to do a job such as cleaning or cooking. Appliances are often electrical.
• components — A part or element of a larger whole, esp. a part of a machine or vehicle.
• contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
• doohickey — a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
• gadget — a mechanical contrivance or device; any ingenious article.
• gears — Plural form of gear.
• gimmick — an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
• innards — the internal parts of the body; entrails or viscera.
• motor — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
• black box — A black box is an electronic device in an aircraft which records information about its flights. Black boxes are often used to provide evidence about accidents.
• means — to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend: I meant to compliment you on your work. Synonyms: contemplate.
• method — a procedure, technique, or way of doing something, especially in accordance with a definite plan: There are three possible methods of repairing this motor.
• agency — An agency is a business which provides a service on behalf of other businesses.
• operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
• procedure — subroutine
• process — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
• technique — the manner and ability with which an artist, writer, dancer, athlete, or the like employs the technical skills of a particular art or field of endeavor.
• execution — The carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order, or course of action.
• functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
• medium — a middle state or condition; mean.
• performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
• rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
• m.o. — modus operandi.
• mo — moment (def 1).
• approach — When you approach something, you get closer to it.
• manner — mainour.
• modus vivendi — manner of living; way of life; lifestyle.
• way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• basics — The basics of something are its simplest, most important elements, ideas, or principles, in contrast to more complicated or detailed ones.
• brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
• essentials — Plural form of essential.
• fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
• mechanics — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
• nitty-gritty — the essential substance or details of a matter; basics; crux: Let's skip the chitchat and get down to the nitty-gritty.
• interior — being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.
• belly — The belly of a person or animal is their stomach or abdomen. In British English, this is an informal or literary use.
• entrails — A person or animal's intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed.
• bowels — innards; entrails
• centre — A centre is a building where people have meetings, take part in a particular activity, or get help of some kind.
• center — a point equally distant from all points on the circumference of a circle or surface of a sphere
• contents — everything that is inside a container
• guts — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
• heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
• middle — equally distant from the extremes or outer limits; central: the middle point of a line; the middle singer in a trio.
• recesses — temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
• soul — the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.