English dictionary

work

noun

Pronunciation

/wɜːk/ /wəik/

Audio pronunciation

Parts of speech

noun verb

Definitions

noun

  1. (heading) Employment.
  2. (heading) Effort.
  3. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  4. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  5. The staging of events to appear as real.
  6. Ore before it is dressed.
  7. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

verb

  1. To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  2. To effect by gradual degrees.
  3. To embroider with thread.
  4. To set into action.
  5. To cause to ferment.
  6. To ferment.
  7. To exhaust, by working.
  8. To shape, form, or improve a material.
  9. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  10. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  11. To provoke or excite; to influence.
  12. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  13. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  14. To cause to work.
  15. To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  16. To influence.
  17. To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  18. To move in an agitated manner.
  19. To behave in a certain way when handled
  20. (with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
  21. To hurt; to ache.

Example sentences

We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
Tell me you're using clean works at least.
He’s working in a bar.
he worked his way through the crowd
He worked the levers.
The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
she works the night clubs
The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
She knows how to work the system.
I cannot work a miracle.
He is working his servants hard.
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
They worked on her to join the group.
A ship works in a heavy sea.
this dough does not work easily; the soft metal works well
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