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Working vs Worked - What's the difference?

working | worked |

As verbs the difference between working and worked

is that working is present participle of lang=en while worked is past tense of work.

As adjectives the difference between working and worked

is that working is that is or are functioning while worked is designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.

As a noun working

is operation; action.

working

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) wirking, warking, (etyl) werking, (etyl) Wirkung.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (usually plural) Operation; action.
  • Method of operation.
  • Fermentation.
  • (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
    • Leave him alone; he's working .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That is or are functioning.
    • a working ventilator
  • That suffices but requires additional work.
    • a working copy of the script
  • In paid employment.
    • working mothers
  • Of or relating to employment.
    • the working week
  • Enough to allow one to use something.
    • a working knowledge of computers
    Synonyms
    * (functioning''): functioning; up (''mainly used of computers ) * (that suffices but requires further work ): draft, provisional, temporary * (in paid employment ): employed, in employment * (of or relating to employment ): work * (enough to allow one to use something ): basic
    Antonyms
    * (functioning''): broken, broken-down, down (''mainly used of computers )

    Related terms

    * work

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    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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