work
IPA: wˈɝk
noun
- (uncountable) Employment.
- labour, occupation, job.
- The place where one is employed.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- (dated) A factory; a works.
- (uncountable) Effort.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- Product; the result of effort.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees;
- (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To set into action.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
- (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
- (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
- (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
- (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- (transitive, law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (transitive) To cause to work.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
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Examples of "work" in Sentences
- Most visitors to this blog come during work days when they are supposed to be doing work*.
- In this first year of practical work, _the main point is the formation of correct habits of work_.
- And that worked proved invaluable for our work on law review and for *my work* as a practicing lawyer.
- They are trying to free themselves from the typical boss-servant work relationship and form more of a work partnership.
- I could doubtless spend another hour or two browsing the You Tube clips of their work -- I'll save that for dessert when I've done some work*&%# first.
- Somewhere in Nick's Daedalus project is a great thread of discussion of those who are burned out of guild leadership talk about work, and then there's *work* in an mmorpg.
- England be drawn to take part in a work of such fascinating interest — “_a work_,” if I may once more quote the words of our Bishop in Japan, “_that must be done at once if it is to be done at all_.”
- If anyone has seen such a study that shows that various humans require more calories to do the same amount of work note: a 110lb woman walking 1 mile is not doing the same _work_ as a 300lb man walking 1 mile, I'd love to see it.
- They finished the erection in about one hundred and three hours; and thinking of their heroic, courageous and persevering conduct, one is reminded of the building of Nehemiah's wall, which was even less difficult and dangerous than this work on the Bell Rock: -- "So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof; _for the people had a mind to work_."
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