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Worked vs Inworn - What's the difference?

worked | inworn |

As adjectives the difference between worked and inworn

is that worked is designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree while inworn is worn or worked into; inwrought.

As a verb worked

is past tense of work.

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.

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    inworn

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worn or worked into; inwrought.
  • (Milton)