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(verb) ferment; "What is working in the minds of the people?" |
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Synonyms: operate |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(noun) activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work" |
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Related Words: activity, aid, attention, busywork, care, duty, functioning, housekeeping, housewifery, housework, investigating, investigation, ironing, job, labor, labour, logging, loose end, make-work, mission, missionary work, nightwork, operation, paperwork, performance, polishing, procedure, project, service, shining, social service, spadework, subbing, substituting, task, tending, timework, toil, undertaking, unfinished business, wash, washing, welfare work |
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(verb) shape, form, or improve something: "work stone into tools"; "process iron" |
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Synonyms: process, work on |
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Related Words: make over, overwork, rack, retread, rework, till, tool, transform, transmute |
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(verb) move in ran agitated manner; "His fingers worked with tension" |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(verb) work one's way through a problem or task; "Start from the bottom and work towards the top" |
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Related Words: go, move, proceed |
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(verb) cause to work; "he is working his servants hard" |
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Synonyms: put to work |
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Related Words: apply, apply, computerize, employ, exercise, exploit, implement, overwork, rack, use, utilise, utilize, utilize, warm up, work |
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(verb) be employed; "Is your husband working again?" "My wife never worked" |
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Synonyms: do work |
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Related Words: bank, blackleg, break one's back, buckle down, consult, dig, drudge, fag, farm, fill, free-lance, grind, job, knuckle down, labor, labour, man, moil, moonlight, rat, scab, serve, slave, subcontract, take, toil, travail |
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(verb) exert oneself by doing mental or physical work |
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Related Words: assist, beaver, beaver away, busy, collaborate, cooperate, get together, go through, join forces, mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck around, occupy, peg away, plug away, potter, putter, run through, scant, serve, skimp, slog, tinker, volunteer, work, work at, work on, work through |
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Antonyms: idle |
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(verb) have a desired effect; do the trick; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly" |
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Synonyms: act |
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Related Words: come through, succeed |
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(verb) operate in a certain place, area, or specialty; "She works the night clubs"; "The salesman works the Midwest"; "This artist works mostly in acrylics" |
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Related Words: work |
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(noun) something produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing: "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works'; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time" |
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Synonyms: piece of work |
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Related Words: caning, chef-d'oeuvre, handcraft, handicraft, handiwork, handwork, ironwork, lacework, lacquerware, leatherwork, masterpiece, metalwork, openwork, product, production, publication, silverwork, wicker, wickerwork, woodwork, work in progress, workpiece |
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(noun) (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force; "work equals force times distance" |
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Related Words: energy |
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(verb) give a work-out to: "Some parents exercise their infants" |
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Synonyms: exercise |
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Related Words: put to work, warm up, work |
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(verb) find the solution to (a problem or question):"did you solve the problem?"; understand the meaning of; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?" |
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Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve |
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Related Words: answer, break, guess, infer, resolve, riddle, strike, understand |
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(verb) make uniform, as of dough or clay |
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Synonyms: knead |
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Related Words: manipulate |
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(verb) function properly; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in" |
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Synonyms: function, go, operate, run |
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Related Words: cut, double, roll, run, serve, service |
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(verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area" |
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Synonyms: bring, make for, play, wreak |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist; "She is our resident philosopher"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through law school" |
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Synonyms: be, follow |
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Related Words: boondoggle, carpenter, clerk, cooper, cox, intern, minister, page, skipper, specialize, vet, wait |
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(noun) the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods" |
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Synonyms: body of work, oeuvre |
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Related Words: end product, output, writing |
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(noun) a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today" |
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Synonyms: workplace |
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Related Words: beehive, brokerage, brokerage house, central, colliery, creamery, drill site, exchange, farm, fishery, forge, gasworks, geographic point, geographical point, glassworks, ironworks, job, lab, laboratory, laundry, lumberyard, oyster bank, oyster bed, oyster park, piscary, pit, proving ground, rope yard, ropewalk, roundhouse, science lab, shipyard, shop, shop floor, smithy, studio, sweatshop, tannery, telephone exchange, test bed, waterworks, workshop |
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(noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design" |
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Synonyms: study |
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Related Words: acquisition, learning |
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(noun) the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for a job"; "a lot of people are out of work" |
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Synonyms: employment, job |
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Related Words: appointment, berth, booking, business, coaching, coaching job, engagement, line, line of work, navigation, occupation, office, piecework, place, position, post, public service, sailing, salt mine, seafaring, service, services, situation, slot, spot, treadmill, workload |
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(verb) prepare for crops, of soil |
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Synonyms: crop, cultivate |
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Related Words: gear up, overcrop, overcultivate, prepare, ready, set, set up |
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(verb) deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization" |
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Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow, treat |
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Related Words: broach, discourse, discuss, initiate, spiel, talk about |
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(verb) pick one's way |
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Synonyms: airt, make one's way, work one's way |
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Related Words: bushwhack, claw, go across, go through, jostle, pass |
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