Nike's mechanical workhorse that fine-tunes the design of clubheads.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the workhorse of the Semantic Web.
Van de Graaff generators are the current workhorse of nuclear stucture research.
It is a roBust engine which is really a "little workhorse".
While the processor might be the workhorse of a machine, graphical capability is essential for games.
But one of Linux's most important strengths is serving as the workhorse of the storage domain.
My husband never paid any attention to me. I was just a workhorse bringing up three children.
"Melittin is a workhorse," said Dr. Wickline, "it's very stable on the nanoparticles, and it's easily and cheaply produced."
But Parlour was so much more than a workhorse and would blossom under the tutelage of arsene Wenger.
Above (top) is Hubble's detailed view of the dark cosmic dust cloud, released to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the workhorse orbiting observatory.
The workhorse of the UEF air efforts, the Scorcher is an effective area bomber that is useful against all types of targets, both mobile and stationary.
There are around 1,000 Boeing 777s in service, and the plane is a long haul workhorse, plying some of the longest routes.
For now, it looks like Boeing's customers are waiting it out to see what the aircraft maker will do with its aging single-aisle workhorse, the Boeing 737.
Given that the list is the workhorse of the Python container types (as you'll see many times throughout the rest of the articles in this series), this example may seem overly simplistic.
For all its inroads in the workplace, neither the iPad nor any other tablet has displaced the PC, the workhorse of information workers for three decades - at least not yet.
But it's a workhorse in modern medicine. Because it keeps blood from clotting, it is used to prevent clots in patients at risk and to keep IVs flowing smoothly.
Given that the team nixed Wang's involvement in the World Baseball Classic because of concerns over his right shoulder-- which caused him to miss two months in the second half of2005-- it was unthinkable that he would turn into the staff's workhorse.
