work
/wɜːk/ · noun
Meaning
- (heading) Employment.
- (heading) Effort.
- Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
- (heading) Product; the result of effort.
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- Ore before it is dressed.
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To embroider with thread.
- To set into action.
- To cause to ferment.
- To ferment.
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