Definition of "work"
- noun
Labour, employment, occupation, job.
The place where one is employed.
Effort expended on a particular task.
The result of a particular manner of production.
Something produced using the specified material or tool.
A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
A fortification.
The staging of events to appear as real.
- verb
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
To effect by gradual degrees.
To embroider with thread.
To set into action.
To cause to ferment.
To exhaust, by working.
To shape, form, or improve a material.
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
To use or manipulate to one's advantage.
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
To cause to work.
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
To influence.
To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
To move in an agitated manner.
To behave in a certain way when handled;.
To cause (someone) to feel (something).
To hurt; to ache.
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