Behaves vs Works - What's the difference?
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(behave)
(label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
* Bible, ii. 21
(label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
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, title= To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
(label) To act in a polite or proper way.
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(plurale tantum) A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
(plurale tantum) A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
*, chapter=22
, title= Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
(plurale tantum) Acts associated with moral or religious standing.
(work)
As verbs the difference between behaves and works
is that behaves is third-person singular of behave while works is third-person singular of work.As a noun works is
plural of lang=en.behaves
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Verb
(head)behave
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Verb
- those that behaved themselves manfully
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
- He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
- who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
Derived terms
* behave oneselfExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsworks
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(wikipedia works)Noun
(head)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
