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PRONUNCIATION OF WORK-HARDENING

work-hardening  [ˈwɜːkˌhɑːdənɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORK-HARDENING

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Work-Hardening is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WORK-HARDENING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of work-hardening in the English dictionary

The definition of work-hardening in the dictionary is the process of hardening a metal.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WORK-HARDENING


air-conditioning
ˈɛəkənˌdɪʃ ənɪŋ
awakening
əˈweɪkənɪŋ
conditioning
kənˈdɪʃənɪŋ
deadening
ˈdedənɪŋ
gardening
ˈɡɑːdənɪŋ
governing
ˈɡʌvənɪŋ
happening
ˈhæpənɪŋ
hardening
ˈhɑːdənɪŋ
maddening
ˈmædənɪŋ
opening
ˈəʊpənɪŋ
poisoning
ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ
positioning
pəˈzɪʃənɪŋ
puddening
ˈpʊdənɪŋ
questioning
ˈkwɛstʃənɪŋ
reasoning
ˈriːzənɪŋ
saddening
ˈsædənɪŋ
strengthening
ˈstreŋθənɪŋ
threatening
ˈθrɛtənɪŋ
unpardoning
ʌnˈpɑːdənɪŋ
widening
ˈwaɪdənɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORK-HARDENING

work over
work permit
work placement
work prospects
work space
work station
work surface
work through
work up
work-harden
work-in
work-in-progress
work-rule
work-sharer
work-sharing
work-study
work-study student
work-to-rule
work-worn
work/life balance

WORDS THAT END LIKE WORK-HARDENING

beginning
christening
deepening
easy listening
enlightening
evening
frightening
good evening
grand opening
intervening
life-threatening
lightening
listening
screening
sharpening
shortening
thickening
tightening
weakening
whitening
worsening

Synonyms and antonyms of work-hardening in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «work-hardening» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WORK-HARDENING

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The translations of work-hardening from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «work-hardening» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

加工硬化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trabajo - endurecimiento
570 millions of speakers

English

work-hardening
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

काम सख्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العمل تصلب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

упрочнение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

- encruamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কঠিন কাজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

écrouissage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerja keras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kaltverfestigung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

加工硬化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가공 경화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Work-hardening
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

công việc làm cứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேலை கெட்டியாகின்றன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्यरत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iş-sertleştirme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incrudimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

praca utwardzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зміцнення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de lucru - întărire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έργο - σκλήρυνση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

werk - verharding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

arbetshärdning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

work- herding
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of work-hardening

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WORK-HARDENING»

The term «work-hardening» is regularly used and occupies the 71.980 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WORK-HARDENING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «work-hardening» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «work-hardening» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about work-hardening

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORK-HARDENING»

Discover the use of work-hardening in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to work-hardening and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Aluminum: Properties and Physical Metallurgy
WORK HARDENING Work hardening is used extensively to produce strain- hardened tempers of the non-heat treatable alloys (Table 1). The severely cold worked or full-hard condition (HIS temper) is usually obtained with cold work equal to ...
John E. Hatch, 1984
2
Modern Physical Metallurgy and Materials Engineering: ...
Grain boundaries affect work-hardening by acting as barriers to slip from one grain to the next. In addition, the continuity criterion of polycrystals enforces complex slip in the neighbourhood of the boundaries which spreads across the grains ...
R. E. Smallman, Ray J. Bishop, 1999
3
Bonica's Management of Pain
A more multidisciplinary approach is seen with work hardening, which incorporates behavioral and vocational components with a formal focus on return to job-specific tasks or positions. Work conditioning is routinely coordinated with acute ...
Scott Fishman, Jane Ballantyne, James P. Rathmell, 2010
4
Advances in Industrial Ergonomics and Safety: Proceedings of ...
Edited by Anil Milal Taylor & Francis 1989 RETURNING TO WORK: THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF WORK HARDENING IN INDUSTRIAL REHABILITATION Carol Carey Sharp The Physical Restoration Center West Palm Beach, ...
Anil Mital, 1989
5
Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction
Work Conditioning Work conditioning generally follows acute care and precedes work hardening. Like traditional occupational therapy intervention, work conditioning focuses on remediation of underlying physical or cognitive deficits to  ...
Mary Vining Radomski, Catherine A. Trombly Latham, 2008
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Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitation, Treatment, and Case ...
The VRC must ensure that the work hardening experience provides good feedback to the injured worker and work to maintain an employer's willingness to continue to provide access to the work hardening setting. Work hardening experiences ...
Mark J. Ashley, 2003
7
Magnesium Technology 2011
60OI2 60015 Figure 8 plots the work hardening rate derived from true stress vs. true strain as a function of net flow stress for various heat indices for both PD and TD. For the specimens tested in PD or RD (Figure 8(a)), the work hardening rate  ...
Wim H. Sillekens, Sean R. Agnew, Neale R. Neelameggham, 2011
8
Dislocations in Solids
Schematic review of work hardening stages. (a) three-stage work hardening ( stressistrain) curves of tensile-deformed f.c.c. single crystals orientated for single slip; (b) plot of normalized work hardening rate 0 against normalized shear flow ...
Frank R.N. Nabarro, M.S. Duesbery, 2002
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Handbook of Metal Treatments and Testing
The same conditions apply in the manufacture of tube and extruded sections where the amount of cold work being applied can be carefully controlled. The use of forging as a work hardening technique requires considerably more skill and care ...
R.B. Ross, 1988
10
Mechanical Behaviour of Materials: Volume I: Elasticity and ...
3.2.1.3 Cyclic work-hardening Among the different materials, and also, for a given material, according to its range of loading, there is a great variety of responses to cyclic loadings, whether these are applied as stresses between limits crm and ...
Dominique François, André Pineau, André Zaoui, 1998

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORK-HARDENING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term work-hardening is used in the context of the following news items.
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Washington State Pain Clinic Instills 'Don't Give Up' Attitude
RIW's newest initiative is its “work-hardening” facility, where patients can simulate the kind of work they might do in a job, such as moving freight, running power ... «Pain Medicine News, Sep 13»
2
Precipitation Hardening Nickel-Chromium Alloy - Alloy 718
Alloy 718 can be machined readily in the solution treated condition but the material's high strength and work-hardening characteristics should be taken into ... «Azom.com, Jul 13»
3
Voc-Rehab may have Forever Changed for the Worse
He underwent two knee surgeries and then an unbelievably long period of physical therapy and later work-hardening followed. He later underwent total knee ... «WorkCompCentral, Nov 12»
4
Life Expectancy: Factors That Affect Cartridge Case Life
Guns with rear lock-up such as lever actions like this Marlin can cause extra brass work-hardening around the case head because it shifts back slightly on firing. «Rifle Shooter Magazine, Aug 12»
5
Inspection of Aircraft Landing Gear Components by Barkhausen …
The work-hardening and work-softening in the materials of different hardness was also observed. Chrome grinding and abusive grinding also showed that at ... «NDT.net, Jun 06»

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