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works

work
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [wurk]
    • /wɜrk/
    • /wɜːk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [wurk]
    • /wɜrk/

Definitions of works word

  • noun works exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. 1
  • noun works productive or operative activity. 1
  • noun works employment, as in some form of industry, especially as a means of earning one's livelihood: to look for work. 1
  • noun works one's place of employment: Don't phone him at work. 1
  • noun works something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking: The students finished their work in class. 1
  • noun works materials, things, etc., on which one is working or is to work. 1

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Origin of works

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (noun) Middle English worke, Old English worc, replacing Middle English werk(e), Old English weorc, cognate with Old Frisian, Old Saxon werk, Old High German werah, werc (German Werk), Old Norse verk, Greek érgon; (v.) Middle English worken, derivative of the noun, replacing Middle English wyrchen, Old English wyrcean; cognate with German wirken, Old Norse verkja, Gothic waurkjan

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Works

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

works popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

Synonyms for works

noun works

  • mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
  • workings — Plural form of working.
  • machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
  • everything — All things; all the things of a group or class.
  • entirety — The whole of something.

Antonyms for works

noun works

  • entertainments — Plural form of entertainment.
  • failures — Plural form of failure.
  • losses — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
  • hates — Feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone).
  • avocations — Plural form of avocation.

verb works

  • stops — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • halts — Plural form of halt.
  • refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • stays — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.

Top questions with works

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