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Dizionario inglese


work

/wɜːk/
/wəik/

noun
(heading) Employment.
(heading) Effort.
Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. (Example: We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.)
(heading) Product; the result of effort.
The staging of events to appear as real.
Ore before it is dressed.
The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.) (Example: Tell me you're using clean works at least.)

work

/wɜːk/
/wəik/

verb
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. (Example: He’s working in a bar.)
To effect by gradual degrees. (Example: he worked his way through the crowd)
To embroider with thread.
To set into action. (Example: He worked the levers.)
To cause to ferment.
To ferment.
To exhaust, by working. (Example: The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.)
To shape, form, or improve a material. (Example: He used pliers to work the wire into shape.)
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality. (Example: she works the night clubs)
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
To provoke or excite; to influence. (Example: The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.)
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage. (Example: She knows how to work the system.)
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence. (Example: I cannot work a miracle.)
To cause to work. (Example: He is working his servants hard.)
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for. (Example: he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work)
To influence. (Example: They worked on her to join the group.)
To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
To move in an agitated manner. (Example: A ship works in a heavy sea.)
To behave in a certain way when handled (Example: this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well)
(with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
To hurt; to ache.
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