work

Signification

Noun

1. Employment.
2. Employment.
3. Employment.
4. Employment.
5. Effort.
6. Effort.
7. Effort.
8. Effort.
9. Effort.
10. Product; the result of effort.
11. Product; the result of effort.
12. Product; the result of effort.
13. Product; the result of effort.
14. (slang) The staging of events to appear as real.
15. Ore before it is dressed.
16. (slang) 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 do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
3. To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
4. To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
5. To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
6. To effect by gradual degrees;
7. To effect by gradual degrees.
8. To embroider with thread.
9. To set into action.
10. To cause to ferment.
11. To ferment.
12. To exhaust, by working.
13. To shape, form, or improve a material.
14. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
15. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
16. To provoke or excite; to influence.
17. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
18. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
19. To cause to work.
20. To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
21. To influence.
22. To move in an agitated manner.
23. To behave in a certain way when handled
24. To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
25. (obsolete) To hurt; to ache.
26. (slang) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wɜː(ɹ)k/

Étymologie

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.
Akin to Scots wark, Saterland Frisian Wierk, West Frisian wurk, Dutch werk, German Werk, German Low German Wark, Danish værk, Norwegian Bokmål verk, Norwegian Nynorsk verk, Swedish verk and yrke, Icelandic verk, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌹 (gawaurki), Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (from ϝέργον (wérgon)), Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰 (vər^əz, “to work, to perform”), Armenian գործ (gorc, “work”), Albanian argëtoj (“entertain, reward, please”). English cognates include bulwark, boulevard, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright. Doublet of erg and ergon.

Phrases

How would you like to work for me ?

Comment aimeriez-vous travailler pour moi?

How many people work here ?

Combien de personnes travaillent ici?

The work is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

L'œuvre est actuellement dans la collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art.

After he was fired , the two left Puerto Rico to work in Miami , Florida .

Après avoir été licencié, les deux ont quitté Porto Rico pour travailler à Miami, en Floride.

Their work made heavy use of improvised dialogue .

Leur travail a fait un usage intensif d'un dialogue improvisé.

Mann soon found work as an engineering apprentice .

Mann a rapidement trouvé du travail en tant qu'apprenti en ingénierie.

These situations were real training at work and the application of real Kumite .

Ces situations étaient une véritable formation au travail et l'application du vrai kumite.

It eventually set up a subsidiary , Exelixis Plant Sciences , for the agricultural work .

Il a finalement mis en place une filiale, Exelixis Plant Sciences, pour les travaux agricoles.