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Definition of "work"
verb: be employed; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college"
verb: have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water"
verb: shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
noun: a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time"
verb: move in an agitated manner; "His fingers worked with tension"
verb: move into or onto; "work the raisins into the dough"; "the student worked a few jokes into his presentation"; "work the body onto the flatbed truck"
verb: behave in a certain way when handled; "This dough does not work easily"; "The soft metal works well"
verb: cause to work; "he is working his servants hard"
verb: operate in a certain place, area, or specialty; "She works the night clubs"; "The salesman works the Midwest"; "This artist works mostly in acrylics"
verb: operate in or through; "Work the phones"
verb: exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"
verb: arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"
verb: gratify and charm, usually in order to influence; "the political candidate worked the crowds"
verb: provoke or excite; "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy"
verb: proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity; "work your way through every problem or task"; "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived"; "Start from the bottom and work towards the top"
noun: (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force; "work equals force times distance"
noun: activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
verb: cause to operate or function; "This pilot works the controls"; "Can you work an electric drill?"

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Work may refer to: In physics: Mechanical work, the amount of energy transferred by a force; Work (thermodynamics), the quantity of energy transferred from one system to another (More)

In physics, mechanical work is the amount of energy transferred by a force. Like energy, it is a scalar quantity, with SI units of joules. The term work was first coined in the ... (More)

In thermodynamics, work is the quantity of energy transferred from one system to another without an accompanying transfer of entropy. It is a generalization of the concept of ... (More)

Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as: "A person in the service of another under any ... (More)

In economics, labour (or labor) is a measure of the work done by human beings. It is conventionally contrasted with such other factors of production as land and capital. (More)

Work" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Kelly Rowland. It was written by Rowland, Scott Storch and Jason "Pooh Bear" Boyd and co-produced by Storch and Boyd for ... (More)

The commandment to keep Shabbat as a day of rest is repeated many times in the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. (See for example Exodus 31:12-17 quoted below. (More)

In fine art, a work of art (or artwork or work) is a creation, such as a song, book, film, video game, print, sculpture or a painting, that has been made in order to be a thing of ... (More)

Manual labour (or manual labor) is physical work done with the hands, especially in an unskilled job such as fruit and vegetable picking, road building, or any other field where ... (More)

Work (1852-1865) is a painting by Ford Madox Brown, which is generally considered to be his most important work. It attempts to portray, both literally and analytically, the ... (More)

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