Bantam work () Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware. |
Cross-days (n. pl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension. |
Dog days () A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September |
Grotto-work (n.) Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. |
Hand-work (n.) See Handiwork. |
Lost (v. t.) Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally |
Lost (v. t.) Parted with |
Lost (v. t.) Not employed or enjoyed |
Lost (v. t.) Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way |
Lost (v. t.) Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally |
Lost (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery |
Lost (v. t.) Not perceptible to the senses |
Lost (v. t.) Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things |
Love-sickness (n.) The state of being love-sick. |
Number (n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned |
Number (n.) A collection of many individuals |
Number (n.) A numeral |
Number (n.) Numerousness |
Number (n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable. |
Number (n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things. |
Number (n.) That which is regulated by count |
Number (n.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word |
Number (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind |
Number (n.) To count |
Number (n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude. |
Number (n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to |
Number (n.) To amount |
Sabrina work () A variety of applique work for quilts, table covers, etc. |
Sickness (n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased |
Sickness (n.) Nausea |
Sorrento work () Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere. |
Tut-work (n.) Work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom. |
Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron |
Work (n.) Exertion of strength or faculties |
Work (n.) The matter on which one is at work |
Work (n.) That which is produced as the result of labor |
Work (n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor |
Work (n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like |
Work (n.) The moving parts of a mechanism |
Work (n.) Manner of working |
Work (n.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg. |
Work (n.) Ore before it is dressed. |
Work (n.) Performance of moral duties |
Work (n.) To exert one's self for a purpose |
Work (n.) Hence, in a general sense, to operate |
Work (n.) Hence, figuratively, to be effective |
Work (n.) To carry on business |
Work (n.) To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state |
Work (n.) To make one's way slowly and with difficulty |
Work (n.) To ferment, as a liquid. |
work flow workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
work | activity directed toward making or doing something, she checked several points needing further work |
workload work load | work that a person is expected to do in a specified time |
busywork make-work | active work of little value, while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork |
welfare work social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
occupation business job line of work line | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money, he's not in my line of business |
employment work | the occupation for which you are paid, he is looking for employment, a lot of people are out of work |
electrical work | the craft of an electrician |
sheet-metal work | the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems) |
tool-and-die work | the craft of making special tools and dies |
police work police investigation | the investigation of criminal activities |
detection detecting detective work sleuthing | a police investigation to determine the perpetrator, detection is hard on the feet |
field work | an investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters |
time and motion study time-and-motion study time-motion study motion study time study work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
spying undercover work | the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes |
mission missionary work | the organized work of a religious missionary |
scut work shitwork | trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores, the hospital hired him to do scut work |
lost cause | a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable |
number crunching | performing complex and lengthy numerical calculations |
work-study program | an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study |
work-in | occasion when workers continue to work as a protest against e.g. proposed dismissal or closure of the factory |
social work | any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children |
work to rule | a job action in which workers cause a slowdown by doing only the minimum amount required by the rules of the workplace |
strike work stoppage | a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions, the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled |
work animal | an animal trained for and used for heavy labor |
brogan brogue clodhopper work shoe | a thick and heavy shoe |
driver number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
lost-and-found | repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them |
number | an item of merchandise offered for sale, she preferred the black nylon number, this sweater is an all-wool number |
number cruncher | a computer capable of performing a large number of mathematical operations per second |
oeuvre work body of work | 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 |
work piece of work | a product 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 |
workbench work bench bench | a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic |
workboard work-board | a horizontal board that provides a supported surface for manual work |
work camp prison camp prison farm | a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects |
work in progress | a piece of work that is not yet finished |
work of art | art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit) |
workplace work | a place where work is done, he arrived at work early today |
work-shirt | heavy-duty shirts worn for manual or physical work |
work surface | a horizontal surface for supporting objects used in working or playing games |
worktable work table | a table designed for a particular task |
number | a clothing measurement, a number shoe |
number figure | the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals, he had a number of chores to do, the number of parameters is small, the figure was about a thousand |
counterpart opposite number vis-a-vis | a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another |
study work | 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 |
pagination folio page number paging | the system of numbering pages |
number | the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural), in English the subject and the verb must agree in number |
literary composition literary work | imaginative or creative writing |
reference book reference reference work book of facts | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts, he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
number identification number | a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification, she refused to give them her Social Security number |