workshop
a room, group of rooms, or building in which work, especially mechanical work, is carried on.
a seminar, discussion group, or the like, that emphasizes exchange of ideas and the demonstration and application of techniques, skills, etc.: a theater workshop; an opera workshop.
to experiment with different versions of (a play or other performance), often in a collaborative environment:Most comedians workshop their jokes in smaller clubs before adding them to a polished routine.
Origin of workshop
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How to use workshop in a sentence
It’s a great power tool for your beginner workshop as you go through your list of home projects.
Make every project a breeze with the right miter saw | PopSci Commerce Team | August 26, 2020 | Popular-ScienceTheir authors’ only real hope is to have their papers accepted in workshops, which rarely get the same attention from the community.
Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant | Amy Nordrum | August 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewWriting workshops still are best with real time, synchronous online classes, and students must take the risk of reading what they have written aloud to their classmates.
The solar array will be used for the workshop and telescope components of the Skylab cluster to be launched as a space station forerunner.
50 years ago, NASA prepared to launch America’s first space station | Maria Temming | July 20, 2020 | Science NewsOn July 9, we held “How and When We’ll Recover, By the Numbers” a workshop to help our readers better understand which metrics matter most right now.
I met Klay, a Marine veteran of Iraq, in 2008 at a writing workshop for veterans run by New York University.
The Veteran Who Took Home the National Book Award | Jacob Siegel | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis was the second meeting for the 21 women; their first workshop took place in New Delhi, India, in April.
Amid Unrest, Afghan Women Push For Role in Peace Process | Molly Raskin | October 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI was taking a writing workshop, and one of the tasks was to write down our “obsessions” at the beginning of each evening.
Into the Grindr of the Gay Dating Game: Sex, Death, and Aging in ‘Stealing Sam’ | Tim Teeman | September 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd then came the day when they walked into the London workshop of a musical instrument emporium.
Exile on Sesame Street: Keith Richards Writes a Kids’ Book | Malcolm Jones | September 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnother new Akhtar play opens later in the season at the always-excellent New York Theater workshop.
Fall Broadway Preview: 'This Is Our Youth,' Bradley Cooper as ‘The Elephant Man,' and More | Janice Kaplan | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHere began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockCertain it is however that while yet a youth he obtained employment in the workshop of Nicholas Amati.
Violins and Violin Makers | Joseph PearceWhen the men worked on their flint points, Fleetfoot liked to play near the workshop.
The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth DoppIt strikes me that your inactivity proceeds from your lack of concentration, in spite of your snug workshop.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyAnd so Flaker busied himself in the workshop when the men went out to hunt.
The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
British Dictionary definitions for workshop
/ (ˈwɜːkˌʃɒp) /
a room or building in which manufacturing or other forms of manual work are carried on
a room in a private dwelling, school, etc, set aside for crafts
a group of people engaged in study or work on a creative project or subject: a music workshop
(tr) to perform (a play) with no costumes, set, or musical accompaniment
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