work Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) worc, weorc, . English cognates include bulwark, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright.
Noun
Employment.
#Labour, occupation, job.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand / That you yet know not of.
#*Bible, 2 (w) xxxi. 21
#*:In every work that he beganhe did it with all his heart, and prospered.
#*, chapter=15
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
#The place where one is employed.
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Effort.
#Effort expended on a particular task.
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##Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
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#(lb) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
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#*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston , magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine
, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo , meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work .}}
#(lb) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.[ ]See http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055 .
Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
(lb) Product; the result of effort.
# The result of a particular manner of production.
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# Something produced using the specified material or tool.
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#(lb) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:to leave no rubs or blotches in the work
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:The work some praise, / And some the architect.
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#*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work , a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
#(lb) A fortification.
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The staging of events to appear as real.
(lb) Ore before it is dressed.
:(Raymond)
Synonyms
* (employment) See also
* (productive activity) See also
Derived terms
* artwork
* at work
* body of work
* bodywork
* breastwork
* bridgework
* busy work
* casework
* clockwork
* derivative work
* dirty work
* dreamwork
* earthwork
* field work, fieldwork
* finger work
* firework
* fretwork
* groundwork
* guesswork
* hard work
* handiwork
* homework
* housework
* ironwork
* leg work, legwork
* lifework
* masterwork
* needlework
* openwork
* overwork
* paintwork
* paperwork
* patchwork
* piece of work
* piecework
* public works
* reference work
* road work, roadwork
* schoolwork
* shift work, shiftwork
* spadework
* teamwork
* waterworks
* waxwork
* wickerwork
* woodwork
* work ethic
* work of art
* worklist
* workly
* workout
* workplace
* workroom
* workshop
* workstation
* workstead
* workup
See also
* -ing
References
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Verb
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
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# Followed by in'' (or ''at , etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- I work''' in a national park; she '''works''' in the human resources department; he mostly '''works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
# Followed by as . Said of one's job title
#* , chapter=17
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
- I work as a cleaner.
# Followed by for . Said of a company or individual who employs.
- she works''' for Microsoft; he '''works for the president
# Followed by with . General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- I work''' closely with my Canadian counterparts; you '''work''' with computers; she '''works with the homeless people from the suburbs
To effect by gradual degrees.
- he worked''' his way through the crowd; the dye '''worked''' its way through; using some tweezers, she '''worked the bee sting out of her hand
* Addison
- So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains / Of rushing torrents and descending rains, / Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, / Till by degrees the floating mirror shines.
To embroider with thread.
To set into action.
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To cause to ferment.
To ferment.
* Francis Bacon
- the working of beer when the barm is put in
To exhaust, by working.
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To shape, form, or improve a material.
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To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
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To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
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To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
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To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
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To cause to work.
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To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The tao of tech
, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
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(figuratively) To influence.
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To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
To move in an agitated manner.
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- A ship works in a heavy sea.
* Addison
- confused with working sands and rolling waves
To behave in a certain way when handled;
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(transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
* {{quote-book, passage=So sad it seemed, and its cheek-bones gleamed, and its fingers flicked the shore; / And it lapped and lay in a weary way, and its hands met to implore; / That I gently said: “Poor, restless dead, I would never work you woe; / Though the wrong you rue you can ne’er undo, I forgave you long ago.”
, author=Robert W. Service
, title=( Ballads of a Cheechako), chapter=( The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike), year=1909}}
(obsolete) To hurt; to ache.
* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), ''(w, Le Morte d'Arthur), Book XXI:
- ‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’
Derived terms
* work at
* work off
* work on
* work out
* work over
* work up
* rework
* worker
* working
* work it
* work like a beaver
* work like a charm
* work like a dog
* work like a horse
* work like a Trojan
* work the crowd
* work the room
* work to rule
* work wonders
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language English
Etymology 1
(etyl) language, from (etyl) language, from .
Noun
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(lb) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
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* 1867', ''Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe'', quoted in '''1983 in ''History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 (ISBN 0913580856), page 240:
- Hence the natural language' of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a ' language , capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
* {{quote-book, page=50, year=1900, author=(w)
, title= The History of the Caliph Vathek
, passage=No language could express his rage and despair.}}
* 2000 , Geary Hobson, The Last of the Ofos (ISBN 0816519595), page 113:
- Mr. Darko, generally acknowledged to be the last surviving member of the Ofo Tribe, was also the last remaining speaker of the tribe's language .
(lb) The ability to communicate using words.
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(lb) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
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- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language , he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
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* 2001 , Eugene C. Kennedy, ?Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor (ISBN 0824519132):
- A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
A body of sounds, signs and signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
A computer language; a machine language.
* 2015 , Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages (ISBN 3319133144), page 94:
- In fact pointers are called references in these languages' to distinguish them from pointers in ' languages like C and C++.
(lb) Manner of expression.
* (rfdate) Cowper:
- Their language simple, as their manners meek,
(lb) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
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(lb) Profanity.
*{{quote-book, page=500, year=1978, author=James Carroll
, title= Mortal Friends , isbn=0440157897
, passage="Where the hell is Horace?" ¶ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language ."}}
Synonyms
* (form of communication) tongue, speech (spoken language)
* (vocabulary of a particular field) lingo (colloquial), jargon, terminology, phraseology, parlance
* (computer language) computer language, programming language, machine language
* (particular words used) phrasing, wording, terminology
Derived terms
* artificial language
* auxiliary language
* bad language
* body language
* computing language
* constructed language
* endangered language
* extinct language
* foreign language
* formal language
* foul language
* international language
* language barrier
* language code
* language cop
* language death
* language extinction
* language family
* language lab, language laboratory
* language model
* language of flowers
* language planning
* language police
* language pollution
* language processing
* language school
* language shift
* language technology
* language transfer
* languaging
* machine language
* mathematical language
* mind one's language
* natural language
* pattern language
* programming language
* private language
* secular language
* sign language
* speak someone's language
* standard language
* vehicular language
* vernacular language
Related terms
* langue
* lingual
* linguine
* linguistics
* tonguage
Verb
To communicate by language; to express in language.
* (rfdate) Fuller:
- Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.
See also
* lexis, term, word
* bilingual
* linguistics
* multilingual
* trilingual
Etymology 2
Alteration of (m).
Noun
( en noun)
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
* 1896 , William Horatio Clarke, The Organist's Retrospect , page 79:
- A flue-pipe is one in which the air passes through the throat, or flue, which is the narrow, longitudinal aperture between the lower lip and the tongue, or language'.
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