Working

Working may refer to:

  • Working (musical), a 1978 musical
  • Working (TV series), a situation comedy
  • Working (book), a book by Studs Terkel
  • Working!!, a manga by Karino Takatsu
  • Holbrook Working (1895–1985), statistician and economist
  • Working the system, using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome
  • Cold working, the strengthening of a metal by plastic deformation
  • Hot working, processes where metals are plastically deformed above their recrystallization temperature
  • Multiple working, having more than one locomotive hauling a train under the control of one driver
  • Live-line working, the maintenance of electrical equipment, often operating at high voltage, while the equipment is energised
  • Single-line working, using one train track out of two

Famous quotes containing the word working:

    “Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there’s no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better—but you keep working anyway.”
    —Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)