单词 | work |
释义 | Word Frequency work(wɜːk) noun 1. physical or mental effort directed towards doing or making something 2. paid employment at a job or a trade, occupation, or profession 3. a duty, task, or undertaking 4. something done, made, etc, as a result of effort or exertion a work of art 5. materials or tasks on which to expend effort or exertion 6. another word for workmanship (sense 3) 7. the place, office, etc, where a person is employed 8. any piece of material that is undergoing a manufacturing operation or process; workpiece 9. a. decoration or ornamentation, esp of a specified kind b. (in combination) wirework woolwork 10. an engineering structure such as a bridge, building, etc 11. informal plastic surgery performed for cosmetic reasons 12. physics the transfer of energy expressed as the product of a force and the distance throughwhich its point of application moves in the direction of the force Abbreviation: W, w13. a structure, wall, etc, built or used as part of a fortification system 14. at work 15. make short work of 16. (modifier) of, relating to, or used for work work clothes a work permit verb 17. (intransitive) to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something 18. (intransitive) to be employed 19. (transitive) to carry on operations, activity, etc, in (a place or area) that sales team works the southern region 20. (transitive) to cause to labour or toil he works his men hard 21. to operate or cause to operate, esp properly or effectively to work a lathe that clock doesn't work 22. (transitive) to till or cultivate (land) 23. to handle or manipulate or be handled or manipulated to work dough 24. to shape, form, or process or be shaped, formed, or processed to work copper 25. to reach or cause to reach a specific condition, esp gradually the rope worked loose 26. (transitive) mainly US and Canadian to solve (a mathematical problem) 27. (intransitive) to move in agitation her face worked with anger 28. (transitive; often foll by up) to provoke or arouse to work someone into a frenzy 29. (transitive) to effect or accomplish to work one's revenge 30. to make (one's way) with effort he worked his way through the crowd 31. (transitive) to make or decorate by hand in embroidery, tapestry, etc working a sampler 32. (intransitive) (of a mechanism) to move in a loose or otherwise imperfect fashion 33. (intransitive) (of liquids) to ferment, as in brewing 34. (transitive) informal to manipulate or exploit to one's own advantage 35. (transitive) slang to cheat or swindle Derived forms workless (ˈworkless) adjective worklessness (ˈworklessness) noun Word origin Old English weorc (n), wircan, wyrcan (vb); related to Old High German wurchen, German wirken, Old Norse yrkja, Gothic waurkjan |
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