Work Definition
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English
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- (UK) IPA: /wɜːk/
- (Geordie) IPA: /wɔk/
- (US) IPA: /wɝk/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(r)k
Etymology 1
Old English weorc, worc; akin to Old Frisian werk, wirk, Old Saxon, Dutch werk, German Werk, Old High German werc, werah, Icelandic & Swedish verk, Danish værk, Gothic gawaúrki, Ancient Greek ἔργον (“work”), Avestan verez (to work), Armenian գործ (gorç, “work”). Cognates include: bulwark, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright.
Noun
work (countable and uncountable; plural works)
- (uncountable) Labour, employment, occupation, job.
- My work involves a lot of travel.
- (uncountable) The place where one is employed.
- He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
- (uncountable) Effort expended on a particular task.
- Holding a brick over your head is hard work.
- It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
- (uncountable, 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.
- Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
- (uncountable, thermodynamics) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.[1].
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- It is a work of art.
- (countable) A fortification.
- William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:work
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun "work"Translations
labour, employment, occupation, job
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Etymology 2
Old English wyrċan, cognate with Old Frisian werka, wirka, Old Saxon wirkian (Dutch werken), Old High German wurken (German wirken), Old Norse yrkja (Swedish yrka), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽.
Verb
to work (third-person singular simple present works, present participle working, simple past and past participle worked or rarely wrought)
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- He’s working in a bar.
- Followed by in. Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
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- I work in a national park.
- She works in the human resources department.
- He mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry.
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- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
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- I work as a cleaner.
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- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
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- She works for Microsoft.
- He works for the president.
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- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
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- I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.
- I work with computers.
- I work with the homeless people from the suburbs.
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- (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
- He worked his way through the crowd.
- The dye worked its way through.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To set into action.
- He worked the levers.
- (transitive, Zymurgy) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
- (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
- He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
- (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- She works the night clubs.
- The salesman works the Midwest.
- This artist works mostly in acrylics.
- (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
- (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
- The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
- (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- She knows how to work the system.
- (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- I cannot work a miracle.
- (transitive) To cause to work.
- He is working his servants hard.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- He pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?
- He looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work.
- My plan didn’t work.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- They worked on her to join the group.
- (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- His fingers worked with tension.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;
- This dough does not work easily.
- The soft metal works well.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to feel
- 1909, Robert W. Service, “The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike”, in Ballads of a Cheechako:
- So sad it seemed, and its cheek-bones gleamed, and its fingers flicked the shore; / And it lapped and lay in a weary way, and its hands met to implore; / That I gently said: “Poor, restless dead, I would never work you woe; / Though the wrong you rue you can ne’er undo, I forgave you long ago.”
- 1909, Robert W. Service, “The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike”, in Ballads of a Cheechako:
Derived terms
phrasal verbs derived from work (verb)
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Translations
to do a specific task
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Work
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Look up work in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Work may refer to: Human labour:- Employment
- House work
- Labour (economics), measure of the work done by human beings
- Manual labour, physical work done by people
- Wage labour, in which a worker sells their labour and an employer buys it
- Work (project management), the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task
- Work (physics) (mechanical work), the amount of energy transferred by a force
- Work (thermodynamics), the quantity of energy transferred from one system to another
- Karma, or "deed" in Sanskrit, causes the cycle of cause and effect, or Saṃsāra, in Indian religions
- Work (Christian theology), acts of charity
- Work (1915 film), a 1915 silent film co-starring Edna Purviance
- WORK (FM), an American FM radio station licensed to serve Barre, Vermont
- Work (professional wrestling), a staged event
- Work (painting), by Ford Madox Brown
- Work: A Story of Experience, a novel by Louisa May Alcott
- Work, a 1978 play by Ron Milner
- work (copyright law), the subject-matter of copyright law
- The Work, band
- Work Records (aka "WORK" or "The WORK Group"), a music label under Sony Records
- Work 1989-2002, a release by the electronic music duo Orbital
- "Work" (Ciara song), a single by Ciara
- "Work" (Jars of Clay song), a song by Jars of Clay
- "Work" (Jimmy Eat World song), a song by the rock band Jimmy Eat World
- "Work", a song by Bob Marley from his album Uprising
- "Work" (Kelly Rowland song), a single by Kelly Rowland
- "Work" (The Saturdays song), a song by British pop group The Saturdays
- Work Work, a song by N Dubz
- Work (album), a album by Shout Out Louds
- Weorc or Work (Anglo-Saxon leader) who gave his name to Workington or 'Weorc-inga-tun', meaning the 'tun' (settlement) of the 'Weorcingas' (the people of Weorc or Work)
- Working (musical), a 1978 musical
- Working (TV series), a situation comedy
- Working (book), a book by Studs Terkel
- Working!!, a manga by Karino Takatsu
- Holbrook Working, a statistician and economist
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