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.
#*
#*:“[…] 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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love English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .
The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
(label) Strong affection.
# An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
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#*
, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
# A deep or abiding liking for something.
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# A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
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#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
- He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
(countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
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* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
- Open the temple gates unto my love .
(colloquial)
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(euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
*1986, Ben Elton & al., ":
*:—What think you, my lord, of... love ?
*:—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
* 1664 , (Robert Boyle), Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours,
- Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love -Hood.
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba .
Synonyms
* (sense) baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird
* (term of address) mate, lover. darling, sweety
Antonyms
* (strong affection) hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite
* (absence of love) indifference
Verb
( lov)
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
- I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
* 2013 February 26, and (Nate Ruess), (Just Give Me a Reason) :
- Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
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To need, thrive on.
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(colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like .
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To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
* John 3:16
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
* Matthew: 37-38
- You shall love' the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall ' love your neighbor as yourself.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, 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 […], or offering services that let you
To derive delight from a fact or situation.
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To lust for.
(euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
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Antonyms
* hate, despise
Derived terms
* all's fair in love and war
* cupboard love
* in love
* I love you
* fall in love
* first love
* lady love
* love affair
* love at first sight
* love bird/lovebird
* love bite/lovebite
* love bomb
* love bug
* lovebunny
* love child
* loved-up
* love egg
* love feast
* love game
* love grass
* love handle
* love-hate
* love-in
* love-in-a-mist
* love is blind
* love life
* lovely
* love-making
* love match
* love nest
* love potion
* lover
* love rat
* lovertine
* love seat
* loveship
* love-shyness
* lovesick
* love song
* lovestone
* love story
* love tap
* love toy
* love triangle
* lovey-dovey
* loving kindness
* loyal love
* make love
* unrequited love
* no love lost
* puppy love
* tough love
* true love
* unconditional love
Related terms
* lov
* luv
* wuv
See also
* charity
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l).
Verb
(lov)
To praise; commend.
To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
Etymology 3
From the phrase Neither for love nor for money , meaning "nothing".
The previously held belief that it originated from the (etyl) term , due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted.
Noun
( -)
(racquet sports) Zero, no score.
- So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
* The Field
- He won the match by three sets to love .
* John Betjeman, A Subaltern's Love Song
- Love -thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, / The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, / With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, / I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.
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