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Works vs Borks - What's the difference?

works | borks |

As verbs the difference between works and borks

is that works is (work) while borks is (bork).

As a noun works

is .

works

English

(wikipedia works)

Noun

(head)
  • .
  • (plurale tantum) A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
  • (plurale tantum) A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
  • *, chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
  • Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
  • (plurale tantum) Acts associated with moral or religious standing.

    • Derived terms

    * brassworks * bronzeworks * clayworks * copperworks * freezing works * good works * ironworks * metalworks * skunkworks * steelworks * waterworks

    Verb

    (head)
  • (work)

    • See also

    * in the works * the whole nine yards * the whole shebang

    Statistics

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    borks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bork)

    • bork

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of .{{cite web citation , title=American Topics , accessdate=2008-11-14 , last=Higbee , first=Arthur , coauthors= , date=1993-01-13 , work=International Herald Tribune , publisher=International Herald Tribune, archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20051026100058/http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/01/13/topi_3.php, archivedate=2005-10-26}}

    Verb

  • (US, politics, often, pejorative) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
  • * 2002 , Orrin G. Hatch, Capital Hill Hearing Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, February 7, 2002, {{cite web citation
    • , title=Statement of The Honorable Orrin Hatch , accessdate=2008-11-14 , last=Hatch , first=Orrin G. , coauthors= , date=2007-02-07 , work=The Nomination of Charles W. Pickering to be United States Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Circuit , publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary}}
    After an eight-year hiatus, these groups are back on the scene, ready to implement an apparent vicious strategy of Borking any judicial nominee who happens to disagree with their view of how the world should be.
  • * 2004 , Mark Tushnet, A Court Divided , p340
    • Forcing their adversaries to bork nominees may, they may think, lead voters in the middle to think less well of liberals, enhancing the distaste for Washington politics that has helped conservatives gain political power.
  • * 2006 , Jeffrey Lord, Borking Rush'', in ''American Spectator , October 30, 2006
    • Above all it discusses the best tactics to defeat a borking'. Having been in the Reagan White House when Robert Bork was '''borked''', I knew something about the subject, which was a huge help when the same ' borking guns were turned on my friend Judge Smith years later.

    Etymology 2

    * Possibly derived from (borken), which is an intentional misspelling of the word (broken) (e.g. The computer is borken ). The word is often used in ironic or humorous contexts. * Possibly derived from usage described under Etymology 1.

    Verb

  • To misconfigure, especially a computer or other complex device.
  • To break or damage.

    • References

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