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tabletops.<br />

works n.pl. 1 plant, factory, workshop, shop, mill: We were taken on<br />

a tour of the works to see how the marble is carved. 2<br />

mechanism, machinery, workings, (moving or working) parts;<br />

clockwork, Colloq innards, insides, Slang guts: We once had a<br />

clock with all the works exposed. 3 the works. a everything,<br />

the lot, Colloq the whole kit and caboodle, the whole shooting<br />

match, everything but the kitchen sink, Chiefly US and Canadian<br />

the whole shebang: We ordered two hamburgers with the works. b<br />

a thrashing, a beating, a drubbing, a battering, a flogging, a<br />

lambasting: When he refused to tell them where the money was<br />

hidden, they gave him the works.<br />

world n. 1 earth, planet, sphere, globe, Terra; universe, cosmos,<br />

existence, creation, life: Do you believe the world is round?<br />

Buckland lives in his own, private world. 2 humanity, mankind,<br />

people, the human race, society, the public, men, humankind,<br />

everybody, everyone, the world at large: We know what he thinks<br />

of the world, but what does the world think of him? 3 area,<br />

sphere, domain, community, clique, crowd, circle, fraternity,<br />

faction, set, coterie: What value does the art world place on<br />

Longchamps' paintings? 4 period, time, age, era, epoch,<br />

time(s): They have produced an excellent series of programmes<br />

on the ancient world. 5 bring into the world. a deliver, have,<br />

give birth to, beget, Rare or dialect birth: Grandmother<br />

brought sixteen children into the world. b deliver, midwife:<br />

The town family doctor brought hundreds of children into the<br />

world in his long career. 6 for all the world. precisely,<br />

exactly, in all respects, in every respect, in every way, just:<br />

He behaved for all the world like a man possessed by the devil.<br />

7 on top of the world. ecstatic, delighted, elated, happy,<br />

exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, Brit in the seventh heaven, US<br />

in seventh heaven, Colloq on cloud nine, Brit over the moon:<br />

George has been on top of the world ever since Prudence agreed<br />

to marry him. 8 out of this world. marvellous, wonderful,<br />

exceptional, unbelievable, incredible, excellent, superb, Colloq<br />

great, smashing, fantastic, fabulous, Slang out of sight,<br />

far-out, Brit magic, US to the max: The place we stayed at<br />

Ibiza was out of this world!<br />

worldly adv. 1 mundane, earthly, terrestrial, temporal, physical,<br />

carnal, fleshly, corporeal, human; lay, non-spiritual,

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