work
- Noun. (uncountable) Labour, employment, occupation, job.
- Noun. (uncountable) The place where one is employed.
- Noun. (uncountable) Effort expended on a particular task.
- Noun. (uncountable, often) The result of a particular manner of production.
- Noun. (uncountable, often) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- Noun. (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (uncountable, thermodynamics) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.[http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055 See http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055].
- Noun. (countable) A fortification.
- Noun. (uncountable, slang) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Verb. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- Verb. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
- Verb. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- Verb. (transitive) To set into action.
- Verb. (transitive, Zymurgy) To cause to ferment.
- Verb. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
- Verb. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Verb. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- Verb. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
- Verb. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
- Verb. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause to work.
- Verb. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- Verb. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Verb. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
- Verb. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- Verb. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
- Verb. (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to feel.
- Verb. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
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