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Worked vs Collaborate - What's the difference?

worked | collaborate |

As verbs the difference between worked and collaborate

is that worked is (work) while collaborate is to work together with others to achieve a common goal.

As an adjective worked

is designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.

worked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (work)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
  • * 1811 , William Singers, "On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans", Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland , page 73:
  • A heavy rich loam'' is, perhaps, the best of any; but ''carse'' lands, and well worked and manured ''clay soils, are also very suitable.
  • Wrought.
  • # Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
  • #* 1832 , James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage , page 39:
  • ...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand...
  • # Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
  • #* 1803 , William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire , page 84:
  • ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.
  • Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
  • * 1835 , R.H. Nicholls and Francis Walkingame, Taplin's Improved Edition of Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant , page 108:
  • Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.

    References

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    collaborate

    English

    Verb

    (collaborat)
  • To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
  • Let's collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.
  • To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
  • If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.

    See also

    * collaborator * collaboration

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