Worked vs Repair - What's the difference?
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(work)
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:
Wrought.
# Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
#* 1832 , James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage , page 39:
# Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
#* 1803 , William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire , page 84:
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:
The act of repairing something.
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The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
* Milton
* Wordsworth
To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
* Shakespeare
The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
* Clarendon
A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
* Dryden
To transfer oneself to another place.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair .
*1850 , , (Jane Eyre)
*:I heard the visitors repair to their chambers.
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*:That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde. I had nothing more exciting on hand than to wait for word from Von Lindowe. I sincerely hoped that it would not be long, for it is not my forte to sit twiddling my thumbs.
As verbs the difference between worked and repair
is that worked is (work) while repair is to restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy or repair can be to transfer oneself to another place or repair can be to pair again.As an adjective worked
is designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.As a noun repair is
the act of repairing something or repair can be the act of repairing or resorting to a place.worked
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- A heavy rich loam'' is, perhaps, the best of any; but ''carse'' lands, and well worked and manured ''clay soils, are also very suitable.
- ...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...
- ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.
- Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.
References
*repair
English
Etymology 1
Coined between 1300 and 1350 from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
Derived terms
* disrepairVerb
(en verb)- to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship
- to repair a shattered fortune
- secret refreshings that repair his strength
- Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness.
- to repair a loss or damage
- I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* repairable / reparable, repairerEtymology 2
(etyl) . Cognate to repatriate.Noun
(en noun)- our annual repair to the mountains
- The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
- There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair .