Work vs Part - What's the difference?
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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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, title= #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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, title= #(lb) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.
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.
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To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
# Followed by in'' (or ''at , etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
# Followed by as . Said of one's job title
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# Followed by for . Said of a company or individual who employs.
# Followed by with . General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
To effect by gradual degrees.
* Addison
To embroider with thread.
To set into action.
To cause to ferment.
To ferment.
* Francis Bacon
To exhaust, by working.
To shape, form, or improve a material.
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
To cause to work.
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
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, title= (figuratively) To influence.
To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
To move in an agitated manner.
* Addison
To behave in a certain way when handled;
(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.”
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(obsolete) To hurt; to ache.
* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), ''(w, Le Morte d'Arthur), Book XXI:
(label) A portion; a component.
#A fraction of a whole.
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#*:Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
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, title= #A distinct element.
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, passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
#*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title=
, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part' by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the ' part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
#A group inside a larger group.
#Share, especially of a profit.
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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
#A section of a document.
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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .
# A factor.
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Duty; responsibility.
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#Position or role (especially in a play).
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, title= #(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
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#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.
#*Bible, (w), ix.40:
#*:He that is not against us is on our part .
#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .
(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)
A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
*:men of considerable parts
* (1800-1859)
*:great quickness of parts
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
(lb) To leave.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted .
*(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
*:It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
*(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
*:his precious bag, which he would by no means part from
To cut hair with a parting; shed.
(lb) To divide in two.
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*1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
*:I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
(lb) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
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To divide up; to share.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) III:
*:He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
*(Bible), (w) xix. 24
*:They parted my raiment among them.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee
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*:He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state
(lb) To have a part or share; to partake.
*(Bible), 1 (w) xxx. 24
*:They shall part alike.
To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
*(Bible), (w) xxiv. 51
*:While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted , and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
(lb) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:The liver minds his own affair,/ And parts and strains the vital juices.
To leave; to quit.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:since presently your souls must part your bodies
To leave (an IRC channel).
*2000 , "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess...'' (on newsgroup ''alt.support.boy-lovers )
*:He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).
Fractional; partial.
Partly; partially; fractionally.
Work is a related term of part.
As nouns the difference between work and part
is that work is employment while part is party (political group).As a verb work
is to do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.work
English
(wikipedia work)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) worc, weorc, . English cognates include bulwark, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright.Noun
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.}}
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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 .}}
See http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055.
Synonyms
* (employment) See also * (productive activity) See alsoDerived 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 * workupSee also
* -ingReferences
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- I work''' in a national park; she '''works''' in the human resources department; he mostly '''works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
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.
- she works''' for Microsoft; he '''works for the president
- I work''' closely with my Canadian counterparts; you '''work''' with computers; she '''works with the homeless people from the suburbs
- 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
- 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.
- the working of beer when the barm is put in
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
- A ship works in a heavy sea.
- confused with working sands and rolling waves
- ‘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 wonderspart
English
Noun
(en noun)Towards the end of poverty, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
An internet of airborne things
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Synonyms
* portion, component, element * faction, party * position, role * parting (UK), (l), (l)/(l) * (jump) chelek * See alsoHolonyms
* wholeDerived terms
* part and parcel * part of speechVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* part ways * part withAdjective
(-)- Fred was part owner of the car.