Bantam work
() Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware. |
Coal works
() A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
Copper works
() A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. |
Grotto-work
(n.) Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. |
Hand-work
(n.) See Handiwork. |
Iron works
() See under Iron, a. |
Maintenance
(n.) The act of maintaining |
Maintenance
(n.) That which maintains or supports |
Maintenance
(n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. |
Sabrina work
() A variety of applique work for quilts, table covers, etc. |
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. |
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
(n.) To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic. |
Work
(v. t.) To labor or operate upon |
Work
(v. t.) To produce or form by labor |
Work
(v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously |
Work
(v. t.) To influence by acting upon |
Work
(v. t.) To form with a needle and thread or yarn |
Work
(v. t.) To set in motion or action |
Work
(v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor. |
work flow
workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
care
maintenance
upkeep | activity involved in maintaining something in good working order, he wrote the manual on car care |
| scheduled maintenance | maintenance at a regularly scheduled time |
| work | activity directed toward making or doing something, she checked several points needing further work |
works
deeds | performance of moral or religious acts, salvation by deeds, the reward for good works |
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 |
| maintenance criminal maintenance | the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community, unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit |
| 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 |
sustenance
sustentation
sustainment
maintenance upkeep | the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence, they were in want of sustenance, fishing was their main sustainment |
| 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 |
| dye-works | a workshop where dyeing is done |
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 |
| plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
| public works | structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use |
sewage system
sewer system
sewage works | facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage |
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 |
works
workings | the internal mechanism of a device |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| works program | a program to provide jobs on public works paid for by government funds |
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 |
working papers
work papers
work permit | a legal document giving information required for employment of certain people in certain countries |