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What (who) is work - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Worked; Work (disambiguation); Do work; Work (song); Superwork; Human labor; Human Labour; Human labour; Human Labor; WORK
work
I
n.
labor
1) to do work (they never do any work)
2) to begin; quit, stop work (they quit work at one o'clock)
3) to take on work
4) to undo smb.'s work
5) backbreaking, hard; delicate; demanding; dirty, scut; easy, light; exhausting, tiring; physical work
6) meticulous, precise; shoddy, slipshod, sloppy work
7) fieldwork; paper work
8) (misc.) he never does a lick/stitch (AE)/stroke of work; to make short work of smt. ('to dispose of smt. quickly')
employment
9) to go to work
10) to return to work
11) to take off from work
12) to leave work (early)
13) at work (they are still at work)
14) out of work (they have been out of work for a week)
result of research, labor, artistic effort
15) to exhibit; hang one's works (in a gallery)
16) a literary; scholarly work
17) collected; published; selected works
18) (misc.) work in progress; a work of art
service
19) social work (to do social work)
20) undercover work (to do undercover work for the police)
treatment
21) root-canal work (to do root-canal work on smb.)
misc.
22) to go to work on smb. ('to put pressure on smb.') (see also works)
II
v.
1) ('to labor') to work hard, strenuously
2) (d; intr.) to work against ('to oppose') (to work against a proposed law)
3) (d; intr.) ('to labor') to work at, on (they were working on a new book; you have to work at being friendlier with people)
4) (d; intr.) ('to be employed; to labor') to work for (she works for a large firm; to work for a living)
5) (d; intr.) to work for ('to support') (to work for a good cause)
6) (d; refl.) ('to excite') to work into (she worked herself into a rage)
7) (d; tr.) to work into ('to insert') (she worked a few jokes into her speech)
8) (d; intr.) to work through ('to go through') (to work through difficult material)
9) (d; intr.) ('to progress') to work towards (to work towards a common goal)
10) (d; intr.) ('to collaborate') to work with (to work closely with one's colleagues)
11) (misc.) to work far into the night; to work one's way through college; to work one's way through a crowd; I slowly worked my way through the long report; the committee worked to reduce tension; to work against the clock
work
I. v. n.
1.
Act, operate, be in action.
2.
Labor, toil, moil, drudge, be or keep at work, be diligent, be industrious.
3.
Move, perform, succeed, get on.
4.
Strive, endeavor, aim, attempt, try, exert one's self.
5.
Ferment, effervesce.
6.
Heave, be tossed, be agitated.
II. v. a.
1.
Labor upon, operate upon.
2.
Produce, originate, accomplish, effect, cause, engender, beget, lead to, bring about.
3.
Keep at work, keep employed.
4.
Exert, strain.
5.
Embroider, broider, stitch, decorate with the needle.
III. n.
1.
Toil, labor (that fatigues), exertion, drudgery.
2.
Occupation, employment, business.
3.
Product (of labor), performance, production, fruit, achievement, deed, action, feat.
4.
Fabric, structure, manufacture.
5.
Composition, book, literary production.
6.
Management, treatment.
Work
·noun To ferment, as a liquid.
II. Work ·noun Ore before it is dressed.
III. Work ·add. ·noun Break; twist.
IV. Work ·vt To cause to ferment, as liquor.
V. Work ·add. ·noun Ore before it is dressed.
VI. Work ·noun Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
VII. Work ·noun The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
VIII. Work ·noun To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
IX. Work ·noun Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
X. Work ·vt To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
XI. Work ·noun Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to Conduce.
XII. Work ·vt To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
XIII. Work ·vt To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
XVI. Work ·noun To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to Labor; to Toil.
XVII. Work ·vt To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to Govern; to Manage; as, to work a machine.
XVIII. Work ·noun Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
XIX. Work ·add. ·noun The causing of motion against a resisting force, measured by the product of the force into the component of the motion resolved along the direction of the force.
XX. Work ·noun To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to Labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
XXI. Work ·noun Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
XXII. Work ·noun To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to Strain; to Labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
XXIII. Work ·noun The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.
XXIV. Work ·noun That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
XXV. Work ·noun Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
XXVI. Work ·noun To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort;
- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
XXVII. Work ·vt To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to Accomplish; to Originate; to Effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
XXVIII. Work ·noun The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. ·see Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.
Wikipedia
Work
Work may refer to:
- Work (human activity), intentional activity people perform to support themselves, others, or the community
- Manual labour, physical work done by humans
- House work, housework, or homemaking
- Working animal, an animal trained by humans to perform tasks
- Work (physics), the product of force and displacement
- Work (electric field), the work done on a charged particle by an electric field
- Work (thermodynamics), energy transferred by the system to its surroundings
- Creative work, a manifestation of creative effort
- Work of art
Examples of use of work
1. Just landing the debate took "work, work, work," said Khayat.
2. The really important work will be when the canine cognitive work meets the canine genome work.
3. "You work and work and work your whole life, and in the end, there‘s nothing.
4. Where once our daily life interrupted our work, now our work interrupts our work.
5. It undermines our work, the work of the police and the work of crime prevention generally.