Meaning of work | Babel Free

Definitions

1. work, job
2. A surname.
3. Employment.
   countable, uncountable
4. Labour, occupation, job.
   countable, uncountable
5. Of, relating to, designed for, or engaged in work.
6. The place where one is employed.
   countable, uncountable
7. first-person singular present indicative of trabajar
8. To get rid of by work or effort: work off extra pounds; work off a debt.
9. One's employer.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
10. In preparation; under development: has a novel in the works.
11. A factory; a works.
    countable, dated, uncountable
12. Without a job; unemployed.
13. Effort.
    countable, uncountable
14. Effort expended on a particular task.
    countable, uncountable
15. To perform labor or duties, as on a specified project: put in work on the plastering.
16. Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
    countable, uncountable
17. To engage in double-dealing; be duplicitous.
18. Something on which effort is expended.
    countable, uncountable
19. To function very well or have a very good effect or outcome.
20. Cosmetic surgery.
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable
21. To labor extremely hard; toil or travail.
22. Prison gang violence.
    countable, slang, uncountable
23. The transfer of energy from one object to another, especially in order to make the second object move in a certain direction. Work is equal to the amount of force multiplied by the distance over which it is applied. If a force of 10 newtons, for example, is applied over a distance of 3 meters, the work is equal to 30 newtons per meter (or 30 joules). Compare energy, power.
24. A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
    countable, uncountable
25. dull, laborious, or menial work. — drudge, n.
26. A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
27. Product; the result of effort.
    in-compounds, often, uncountable
28. The result of a particular manner of production.
    in-compounds, often, uncountable
29. Something produced using the specified material or tool.
    in-compounds, often, uncountable
30. A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
    countable
31. A fortification.
    countable
32. The staging of events to appear as real.
    slang, uncountable
33. Ore before it is dressed.
    countable, uncountable
34. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
    countable, plural, plural-only, slang, uncountable
35. The confident attitude of a drag queen.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

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

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

“Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.”

“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.”

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

“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!”

“has been putting in work”

“Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.”

“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.”

“There's a lot of guesswork involved.”

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

““[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?[…]””

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

“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.”

“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.”

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