Noun

(en noun)

An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.

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A result that is desired; an intention.

The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.

* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:

United began with more purpose in the early phase of the second half and Liverpool were grateful for Glen Johnson's crucial block from Young's goalbound shot.

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The subject of discourse; the point at issue.

(Spenser)

The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.

The purpose of turning off the lights overnight is to save energy.

(obsolete) Instance; example.

(rfquotek, L'Estrange)

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.

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#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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#(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.

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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)