work.

Employment. Labour, occupation, job.

My work involves a lot of travel.

Employment. The place where one is employed.

He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.

Employment. One's employer.

I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.

Employment. A factory; a works.

Effort. Effort expended on a particular task.

Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.

Effort. Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

We know what we must do. Let's go to work.

We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.

Effort. Something on which effort is expended.

There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.

Effort. Something on which effort is expended. Cosmetic surgery.

has had a lot of work done

Effort. Something on which effort is expended. Prison gang violence.

putting in work

Effort. A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.

Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.

Effort. A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.

Product; the result of effort. The result of a particular manner of production.

There's a lot of guesswork involved.

Product; the result of effort. Something produced using the specified material or tool.

We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.

Product; the result of effort. A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.

It is a work of art.

the poetic works of Alexander Pope

Product; the result of effort. A fortification.

William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.

The staging of events to appear as real.

Ore before it is dressed.

The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

Tell me you're using clean works at least.

The confident attitude of a drag queen.

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

He's working in a bar.

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].

I work in a national park.

She works in the human resources department.

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. Said of one's job title [with as].

I work as a cleaner.

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].

She works for Microsoft.

He works for the President.

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].

I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.

You work with computers, right?

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. To be employed or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

She works the night clubs.

The salesman works the Midwest.

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. To be employed or operate in, through, or by means of.

She's working the phones.

To be operative in a specified way. To behave in a certain way when handled

This dough does not work easily.

The soft metal works well.

To be operative in a specified way. To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

He pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?

He looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work.

To be operative in a specified way. To be appealing; to be approved of.

The chef's steak frites just didn't work for me.

That shirt doesn't work on her.

To be operative in a specified way. To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

To be operative in a specified way. To hurt; to ache.

To be operative in a specified way. To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.

I would have never thought those pieces would go together, but she is working it like nobody's business.

To be operative in a specified way. To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To set into action.

He worked the levers.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To exhaust, by working.

The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To shape, form, or improve a material.

He used pliers to work the wire into shape.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To provoke or excite; to influence.

The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

She knows how to work the system.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

I cannot work a miracle.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To force or compel to work.

He is working his servants hard.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To influence.

They worked on her to join the group.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To use intensely and successfully.

He worked that basketball like a boss!

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To be employed at (a job or role).

That summer I worked a job at the beach.

To continue laboriously. To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.

to work into the earth

To continue laboriously. To move or progress slowly [with one's way].

He worked his way through the crowd.

The dye worked its way through.

To continue laboriously. To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.

Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.

To continue laboriously. To move in an agitated manner.

His fingers worked with tension.

A ship works in a heavy sea.

To ferment (produce alcohol from sugars). To ferment.

To ferment (produce alcohol from sugars). To cause to ferment.

To embroider with thread.