workhorse
/ˈwəːkhɔːs/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈwəːkhɔːs/
workhorse
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Aw vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
wor - khorse -> workhorse
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘We experimented with teams of Percheron and Belgian workhorses.’
- ‘After 26 years of horse power, we sold our six workhorses (yes, we were guilty of ‘get bigger or get out’), completing our switch to using hand power.’
- ‘Edmund kept two horses for himself, but the rest were workhorses for the land or pulling carriages.’
- ‘They tend to be more workhorses than show horses.’
- ‘They are workhorses and the one I chose is both affordable and powerful.’
- ‘As machinery began to overtake the use of workhorses, the Black Forest horse became endangered.’
- ‘Transistors are best known as the workhorses of the computing world; a computer's microprocessor chip contains millions of these tiny, voltage-controlled switches.’
- ‘Sure, you've got tanks and jeeps, but the real workhorses of this war are helicopters and PBR patrol boats.’
- ‘And it wasn't made any easier by the fact that the genius works like a horse and that the workhorse made himself into a genius during the season.’
- ‘Communications satellites have become the workhorses in this area due to their effectiveness and efficiency.’
- ‘Thundering across fields remains the preserve of a small band of well-built, farm-ready workhorses with indestructible axles.’
- ‘Motors and drives - the workhorses of many dairy plants - can play an important role in lowering kilowatt hours.’
- ‘Lloyd was a workhorse out of the Blue Jays' bullpen in 1999, and that may have been one of the factors that led to his shoulder surgery in 2000.’
- ‘Despite all this, the truck, a workhorse used by farmers and builders throughout the world, still managed to drive into the Top Gear studio after only relatively minor repairs.’
- ‘Galvanometers are the workhorses behind many laser-based, materials-processing applications such as ablating, cutting, drilling, marking, and welding.’
- ‘Common diode lasers - the type used in laser pointers and grocery-store scanners - are cheap laboratory workhorses for colors ranging from orange to infrared.’
- ‘Both players mix OK strikeout numbers with good groundball rates, and both are workhorses with solid control.’
- ‘‘They've been the workhorses of the industry and are absolutely our best friends, ’ the microbiologist says.’
- ‘Gradually he made a name for himself as (so he put it) a workhorse and not a show horse; his fellow senators came to admire him.’
- ‘He's also near the top of the offensive rebounding charts and is among the NBA's biggest workhorses in terms of minutes played.’
Synonyms
active person, aholic, ambitious person, ball of fire, beaver, bondservant, busy bee, busy person, captive, chattel, doer, drudge, dynamo, eager beaver, factotum, fireball, go-getter, good worker, greasy grind, grind, hard worker, help, hireling, hot shot, hustler, industrious person, laborer, lackey, live wire, mainstay, menial, no slouch, nose to grindstone, old pro, peon, pillar, pistol, plodder, pro, retainer, rock, self-starter, serf, servant, sharpy, skivvy, slave, slogger, spark plug, subservient, thrall, toiler, vassal, victim, workaholic, worker
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