work
Meaning
-
- Employment.
- Employment.
- Employment.
- Employment.
- Effort.
- Effort.
- Effort.
- Effort.
- Effort.
- Product; the result of effort.
- Product; the result of effort.
- Product; the result of effort.
- Product; the result of effort.
- (slang) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Ore before it is dressed.
- (slang) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
Concepts
work
job
labor
labour
operate
function
task
act
employment
do
business
toil
make
action
occupation
run
deed
duty
operation
activity
effort
serve
go
perform
use
forge
move
production
doing
produce
composition
service
do work
profession
working
opus
performance
affair
exploit
cause
play
exercise
creation
ferment
form
cultivate
works
knead
movement
book
practice
work out
process
influence
workplace
study
induce
behaviour
achievement
office
affect
writing
employ
stir
trade
chore
exertion
product
bring about
manage
behave
ways
conduct
matter
create
construct
position
construction
vocation
effective
be successful
succeed
enterprise
undertaking
mission
career
piece
mold
mould
work on
act upon
piece of work
actions
habit
movements
doings
procedure
establish
raise
accomplishment
feat
be effective
impact
carry out
be employed
handicraft
farm
commission
drudge
travail
puzzle out
bring
shape
crop
workmanship
effect
treat
proceed
deeds
habits
way
handle
work at
endeavor
compose
assignment
care
have a job
cut
build
deal
bring forth
officiate
manufacture
activate
responsibilities
essay
engender
application
post
utilization
usage
utilize
impinge
commit
render
ply
manipulate
wield
affairs
craftsmanship
trick
fatigue duty
manufacturing
ability
change
fluctuate
shake
shift
swing
vary
waver
striving
trouble
pains
manual labor
thrive
be fruitful
turn on
come off
take effect
errand
fag
sour
turn
figure out
lick
solve
make for
wreak
put to work
body of work
oeuvre
plant
embroider
arrange
till
agitate
excite
actuate
factory
art
pursuit
deportment
manner of life
manners
apply
tool
be industrious
hard work
productive activity
collective work
busy
be active
jobs
have an effect
edit
opera
settle
inject
take
draw
bring on
generate
give
place
get to
swot
paper
sit
skill
project
work well
line
struggle
set up
bear
appointment
capacity
station
leverage
take advantage of
avail
be efficacious
have effect
take action
wage
control
life
earn income
contribution
results
duties
maneuvering
manoeuvering
tactics
harvest
literary creation
conjugation
inflection
motion
talent
workings
come into play
be influenced
be touched
be transferred
manual labour
efficacy
vacancy
crack it
flourish
make good
make it
make the grade
meet with success
prosper
advantage
be useful
switch on
do a job
do a task
be engaged in
abligation
energy
brainchild
child
offspring
jerk
roll out
workswork
physical activity
any act
literary production
treatise
be busy
do a thing
graft
to-do
execution
embroidery
fermentation
weave
put in
insert
incorporate
bring to pass
engineer
press
prevail upon
persuade
incite
practise on
hoax
cheat
herd
toss
seethe
rage
development
fabric
facilities
installations
working place
fancywork
work assignment
structure
material
stuff
substance
practise
earn one’s living
piece of
action job
industriousness
obligation
serfdom
servitude
slavery
processing
workpiece
gadget
machine member
organ
literature
writings
cooperate
be busily employed
be diligent
design
outline
scheme
sketch
power
strength
at work
see
activities
do something
sculpt
carve
chip away
seasonal
adaptation
operable
cook
come on
advance
ascend
fare
go ahead
go deep
make headway
plow ahead
progress to
ride
roll
rush
attend to
camphorate
care for
carry on
cure
dispose of
doctor
fix up
keep
mind
nurse
nurture
tend
vet
attend
go across
go through
go to
go with
suit
take place
visit
address
alcoholise
alcoholize
drive
exert
go by
habituate
maintain
spend
accelerate
brisk
escalate
goose
quicken
screw up
adopt
dress
modify
revise
rewrite
scarify
education
studying
take apart
accomplish
conjure up
evoke
let
stir up
adjourn
apostatise
apostatize
change over
heave
immigrate
move over
pass
resort
stand back
step
switch
transition
palaver
pleach
prevail
bang
beat
buffet
drum
hammer
poke
pommel
ram
author
confect
equal
lay
pay
put on
put through
stage
fill
go about
fall
bring back
get
import
introduce
deliverable
stint
situation
machine
rack
appear
impress
kick in
prepossess
redound
seem
smell
strike
weigh
culture
incubate
budge
influenced
transferred
engage
occupy
employing
starting work
armed forces
military
tooling
suffice
cover
move around
going
happen
commitments
obligations
official
creations
busy oneself
mess about
potter about
trouble oneself
work as
execute
quality of work
ology
tasks
function well
arable
tillable
hunt
inquiry
investigation
manhunt
prospecting
quest
research
search
survey
text
be in operation
labor force
workday
workforce
be engage
be occupy
business-related
pursue an occupation
labor '' ''
dig
assist
help
tribute
homework
working position
revolve
turn around
professional
kung fu
thing
contracting
recruiting
human action
human activity
end product
final product
direction
policy
way to go
running
output
place of work
workroom
workshop
comming and going
uproar
functionality
operating capacity
operating procedure
operativity
workload
exercitation
pursuits
tool bit
craft
calling
line of work
occupations
professions
vocations
donkeywork
moil
nisus
housekeeping
housework
aspiration
assay
attempt
endeavour
experiment
lost cause
shot in the dark
test
the whole shooting match
trial
try
willingness
blueprint
campaign
crusade
usages
custom
utilise
sew
sew together
stitch
tack together
interject
jot
mark
lead
stimulate
scamper
branch out
originate
provoke
motivate
build up
erect
exteriorize
model, to
pug
set
transform
comport
bias
carry weight
answer
enucleate
resolve
sort out
understand
unriddle
decide
active
give instructions
instruct
instructions
purpose
clear
rise
fine
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/wɜː(ɹ)k/
Etymology
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.
Cognate with Western Frisian
wurk
Cognate with Dutch
werk
Cognate with German
Werk
Cognate with Dutch
werken
Cognate with German
wirken
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