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Works

noun
1.
Buildings for carrying on industrial labor.  Synonyms: industrial plant, plant.
2.
Everything available; usually preceded by 'the'.  Synonyms: full treatment, kit and boodle, kit and caboodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, whole works.  "A hotdog with the works" , "We took on the whole caboodle" , "For $10 you get the full treatment"
3.
Performance of moral or religious acts.  Synonym: deeds.  "The reward for good works"
4.
The internal mechanism of a device.  Synonym: workings.


Work

noun
1.
Activity directed toward making or doing something.
2.
A product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing.  Synonym: piece of work.  "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"
3.
The occupation for which you are paid.  Synonym: employment.  "A lot of people are out of work"
4.
Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading).  Synonym: study.  "No schools offer graduate study in interior design"
5.
(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.
6.
A place where work is done.  Synonym: workplace.
7.
The total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it).  Synonyms: body of work, oeuvre.  "Picasso's work can be divided into periods"
verb
(past & past part. worked or wrought; pres. part. working)
1.
Exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity.  "She worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"
2.
Be employed.  Synonym: do work.  "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"
3.
Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected.  Synonym: act.  "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"
4.
Perform as expected when applied.  Synonyms: function, go, operate, run.  "Does this old car still run well?" , "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
5.
Shape, form, or improve a material.  Synonyms: process, work on.  "Process iron" , "Work the metal"
6.
Give a workout to.  Synonyms: exercise, work out.  "My personal trainer works me hard" , "Work one's muscles" , "This puzzle will exercise your mind"
7.
Proceed along a path.  Synonym: make.  "Make one's way into the forest"
8.
Operate in a certain place, area, or specialty.  "The salesman works the Midwest" , "This artist works mostly in acrylics"
9.
Proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity.  "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived" , "Start from the bottom and work towards the top"
10.
Move in an agitated manner.
11.
Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.  Synonyms: bring, make for, play, wreak.  "Wreak havoc" , "Bring comments" , "Play a joke" , "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"
12.
Cause to work.  Synonym: put to work.
13.
Prepare for crops.  Synonyms: crop, cultivate.  "Cultivate the land"
14.
Behave in a certain way when handled.  "The soft metal works well"
15.
Have and exert influence or effect.  Synonyms: act upon, influence.  "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"
16.
Operate in or through.
17.
Cause to operate or function.  "Can you work an electric drill?"
18.
Provoke or excite.
19.
Gratify and charm, usually in order to influence.
20.
Make something, usually for a specific function.  Synonyms: forge, form, mold, mould, shape.  "Form cylinders from the dough" , "Shape a figure" , "Work the metal into a sword"
21.
Move into or onto.  "The student worked a few jokes into his presentation" , "Work the body onto the flatbed truck"
22.
Make uniform.  Synonym: knead.  "Work the clay until it is soft"
23.
Use or manipulate to one's advantage.  Synonym: exploit.  "She knows how to work the system" , "He works his parents for sympathy"
24.
Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.  Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work out.  "Work out your problems with the boss" , "This unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out" , "Did you get it?" , "Did you get my meaning?" , "He could not work the math problem"
25.
Cause to undergo fermentation.  Synonym: ferment.  "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
26.
Go sour or spoil.  Synonyms: ferment, sour, turn.  "The wine worked" , "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
27.
Arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion.



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"Works" Quotes from Famous Books



... when the souls of those who had enjoyed the reward of their good works in the moon descend to the earth in order to undergo a new embodiment, there cleaves to them a remainder (anu/s/aya) of their former deeds which determines the nature ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 • George Thibaut
... valour in defending her. The baroness was not a young woman, and she was a hardbound Blue. She had been the first to discover the prodigy, and had pruned, corrected, and published him; he was one of her political works, promising to be the most successful. An old affair apparently; but the association of a woman's name with Alvan's, albeit the name of a veteran, roused the girl's curiosity, leading her to think his mental and magnetic powers must be of the very highest, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... got a mate that works in my shop; he's chucked the Dining Room because they give him too much to eat. He found another place where they gave him four pennyworth of meat and two vegetables and it was quite as much as he ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
... family and school libraries, such as Chaucer's poems, and other writings of a kindred character, is unfit for perusal by inexperienced and unsophisticated young ladies. Some of this literature is actually too vile for any one to read, and if written to-day by any poet of note would cause his works to be committed to the stove and the rag-bag in ...
— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg
... where you will, a perfect cloud of midges keeps hovering round your head, each tiny bloodsucker sounding his diminutive horn, in the full and perfect belief that he discourses most excellent music. Even so, in London, are you surrounded with these philosophers of the Cider-cellar. Their works stare you every where in the face; the magazines abound with their wit; their songs, consisting for the most part of prurient parodies, are resonant throughout the purlieus of Covent Garden. What is worse than all, they have wriggled themselves ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various


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