work

Substantiv

1. 1

   Employment. Labour, occupation, job.

   My work involves a lot of travel.

   Come on Neriſſa, I haue worke in hand / That you yet know not of; wee'll ſee our husbands / Before they thinke of vs?

   And in euery worke that he began[…]he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

   Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew’s cap and bells.

2. 2

   Employment. The place where one is employed.

   He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.

3. 3

   Employment. One's employer.

   I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.

4. 4

   veraltendEmployment. A factory; a works.

   In trials of a Martin furnace in a steel work at Remscheiden, Germany, a lining of zirconia was found in good condition after[…]

5. 5

   Effort. 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.

   Fifteen years of hard work went into the property's creation, which was undertaken by a legion of architects, designers, preservation and restoration experts, engineers, consultants, and artists.

6. 6

   Effort. Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

   We know what we must do. Let's go to work.

   We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.

   The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

7. 7

   Effort. Something on which effort is expended.

   There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.

8. 8

   Effort. Something on which effort is expended. Cosmetic surgery.

   has had a lot of work done

   Luckily, our eyes have grown accustomed after decades of Botox, fillers and extreme “work” going mainstream, so we don’t notice the weirdness and read it instead as maximum hotness. Thank you, progress!

9. 9

   SlangEffort. Something on which effort is expended. Prison gang violence.

   putting in work

10. 10

    Effort. 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.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:work.

11. 11

    Effort. A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.

    Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

12. 12

    Product; the result of effort. The result of a particular manner of production.

    There's a lot of guesswork involved.

13. 13

    Product; the result of effort. Something produced using the specified material or tool.

    We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.

14. 14

    Product; the result of effort. A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.

    It is a work of art.

    the poetic works of Alexander Pope

    To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:

    The haſty multitude / Admiring enter'd, and the work ſome praiſe / And ſome the Architect:

15. 15

    Product; the result of effort. A fortification.

    William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.

16. 16

    SlangThe staging of events to appear as real.

17. 17

    Ore before it is dressed.

18. 18

    SlangThe equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

    Tell me you're using clean works at least.

    He gave me a sour look. “All right is it? Well, you shoot some then.” I cooked up a grain and got out my works ready to take the shot.

    If you buy new works, clean them before using them. If you share works, clean them before you or the next person uses them. Blood may be in your works even if you can't see it. Clean your works either with rubbing alcohol (available in drugstores), a household bleach solution (three tablespoons of bleach in a cup of water), or boiling water.

    While in San Francisco, where the AIDS crisis was particularly devastating, they saw numerous public awareness signs reading “Bleach Your Works” posted around the city, urging IV drug users to clean their needles with bleach to help staunch the spread of the disease.

19. 19

    The confident attitude of a drag queen.

    All told, werk is about creativity, virtuosity, and a certain kind of mastery.

    If the voice coming out of my body is legibly male, it complicates my presence. The work starts to approach that mysterious state of werq.

Verb

1. 1

   To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

   He's working in a bar.

   The world’s favorite airport and Asian mega-hub, Singapore Changi, is eagerly working towards opening its new Jewel and Terminal 5.

2. 2

   To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].

   I work in a national park.

   She works in the human resources department.

   He mostly works in logging but sometimes works in carpentry too.

3. 3

   To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. Said of one's job title [with as].

   This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

   I work as a cleaner.

4. 4

   To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].

   She works for Microsoft.

   He works for the President.

5. 5

   To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].

   I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.

   You work with computers, right?

   She works with the homeless people from the suburbs.

6. 6

   To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. To be employed or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

   She works the night clubs.

   The salesman works the Midwest.

7. 7

   To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. To be employed or operate in, through, or by means of.

   She's working the phones.

8. 8

   To be operative in a specified way. To behave in a certain way when handled

   This dough does not work easily.

   The soft metal works well.

9. 9

   To be operative in a specified way. 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.

   Once again, the WiFi isn't willing to work. When the guard comes to check tickets, I ask him if it ever works. He rolls his eyes and tells me it rarely does. He says I'll be lucky if I get it to connect. I give up trying.

10. 10

    To be operative in a specified way. To be appealing; to be approved of.

    The chef's steak frites just didn't work for me.

    That shirt doesn't work on her.

11. 11

    To be operative in a specified way. To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

    And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, till I said to myself, “I wrought him a weal and he requited me with my ill; by Allah, never more will I do any man a service so long as I live!”

    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."

12. 12

    veraltetTo be operative in a specified way. To hurt; to ache.

    ‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’

13. 13

    SlangTo be operative in a specified way. To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.

    I would have never thought those pieces would go together, but she is working it like nobody's business.

14. 14

    To be operative in a specified way. To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.

    Plus, all that gym work means you've got muscles for days. You gotta werk it, babe." She puts a swish and swing into her next few steps before she bursts out laughing, and I have to join in.

    Today, almost three decades later, the sentence, "You better work" from the song is used on a daily basis.

15. 15

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To set into action.

    He worked the levers.

16. 16

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To exhaust, by working.

    The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.

    They were told of a ſilver mine, that had been worked by the Spaniards, ſomewhere in the Healthſhire Hills, in St. Catharine; but they were not able to diſcover it.

17. 17

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To shape, form, or improve a material.

    He used pliers to work the wire into shape.

18. 18

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To provoke or excite; to influence.

    The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.

    "Still, boozers can be worked sometimes. Most people can, if you encourage their kink. One old woman staked me for three months because she got such a kick out of scandalmongering the neighbours to me."

19. 19

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

    She knows how to work the system.

20. 20

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

    I cannot work a miracle.

    Failure to hold the annual meeting, or to otherwise conduct the business of the annual meeting, shall not work a forfeiture or dissolution of the Cooperative.

21. 21

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To force or compel to work.

    He is working his servants hard.

22. 22

    übertragenTo cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To influence.

    They worked on her to join the group.

23. 23

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To use intensely and successfully.

    He worked that basketball like a boss!

24. 24

    To continue laboriously. To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.

    to work into the earth

    We worked back again and picked up our intended route, but we did not find the clear run I had hoped for.

25. 25

    To continue laboriously. To move or progress slowly [with one's way].

    He worked his way through the crowd.

    The dye worked its way through.

26. 26

    To continue laboriously. To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.

    Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.

    So the pure limpid Stream, when foul with Stains / Of ruſhing Torrents, and deſcending Rains, / Work’s it ſelf clear, and as it runs, refines; / ’Till by Degrees, the floating Mirrour ſhines, / […]

27. 27

    To continue laboriously. To move in an agitated manner.

    His fingers worked with tension.

    A ship works in a heavy sea.

    Here vex’d with Winter Storms Benacus raves, / Confus’d with working Sands and rolling Waves; / Rough and tumultuous like a Sea it lyes, / So loud the Tempeſt roars, ſo high the Billows riſe.

28. 28

    To ferment (produce alcohol from sugars). To ferment.

29. 29

    To ferment (produce alcohol from sugars). To cause to ferment.

    For Inanimate Things, you may trie the Force of Imagination, vpon Staying the Working of Beere, when the Barme is put in; Or vpon the Comming of Butter, or Cheeſe, after the Cherming, or the Rennet bee put in.

30. 30

    To embroider with thread.

Formen

Plural

works

Präteritum

worked, wrought

Partizip II

worked, wrought

Partizip I

working

3. Person Singular

works