occupation occupancy moving in | the act of occupying or taking possession of a building, occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal |
scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
works deeds | performance of moral or religious acts, salvation by deeds, the reward for good works |
dye-works | a workshop where dyeing is done |
earthwork | an earthen rampart |
escalator moving staircase moving stairway | a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt |
ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
moving van | a van used for moving home or office furniture |
plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
public works | structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use |
sewage system sewer system sewage works | facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage |
works workings | the internal mechanism of a device |
worldly concern earthly concern world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
works program | a program to provide jobs on public works paid for by government funds |
earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
a movie film picture moving picture moving-picture show motion picture motion-picture show picture show pic flick | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement, they went to a movie every Saturday night, the film was shot on location |
wave moving ridge | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |
tremor earth tremor microseism | a small earthquake |
a Hizballah Hezbollah Hizbollah Hizbullah Lebanese Hizballah Party of God Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine Revolutionary Justice Organization Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
mover public mover moving company removal firm removal company | a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another |
Earth earth | the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell), it was hell on earth |
hell hell on earth hellhole snake pit the pits inferno | any place of pain and turmoil, the hell of battle, the inferno of the engine room, when you're alone Christmas is the pits, |
crust Earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth |
Earth earth world globe | the rd planet from the sun, the planet we live on, the Earth moves around the sun, he sailed around the world |
land dry land earth ground solid ground terra firma | the solid part of the earth's surface, the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land, the earth shook for several minutes, he dropped the logs on the ground |
surface Earth's surface | the outermost level of the land or sea, earthquakes originate far below the surface, three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water |
earth-god earth god | a god of fertility and vegetation |
earth-goddess earth goddess | a goddess of fertility and vegetation |
earth mother | the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility |
lion's foot gall of the earth Nabalus serpentarius Prenanthes serpentaria | common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
chufa yellow nutgrass earth almond ground almond rush nut Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
heath pea earth-nut pea earthnut pea tuberous vetch Lathyrus tuberosus | European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey |
wild potato vine wild sweet potato vine man-of-the-earth manroot scammonyroot Ipomoea panurata Ipomoea fastigiata | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root, sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato |
man-of-the-earth Ipomoea leptophylla | a morning glory with long roots of western United States |
truffle earthnut earth-ball | any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber, grow naturally in southwestern Europe |
earthtongue earth-tongue | any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
moving expense | the cost of moving your residence from one location to another |
a whole shebang whole kit and caboodle kit and caboodle whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works works full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
rare earth rare-earth element lanthanoid lanthanide lanthanon | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers through ) |
ader wax earth wax mineral wax ozokerite ozocerite | a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum, some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles |
earth color | a colored mineral used as a pigment |
alkaline earth alkaline-earth metal | any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium) |
bleaching clay bleaching earth | an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils |
potter's clay potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron, used in making pottery or for modeling |
earth ground | the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface, they dug into the earth outside the church |
diatomaceous earth diatomite kieselguhr | a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material |
earth | once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) |
fuller's earth | an absorbent soil resembling clay, used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent |
get cracking bestir oneself get going get moving get weaving get started get rolling | start to be active, Get cracking, please! |