Bantam work
() Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware. |
Division
(n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided |
Division
(n.) That which divides or keeps apart |
Division
(n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body |
Division
(n.) Disunion |
Division
(n.) Difference of condition |
Division
(n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. |
Division
(n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another |
Division
(n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species. |
Division
(n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer. |
Division
(n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion. |
Division
(n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs. |
Division
(n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided. |
Division
(n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable. |
Division
(n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts |
Division
(n.) A grade or rank in classification |
Grotto-work
(n.) Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. |
Hand-work
(n.) See Handiwork. |
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 |
| division | the act or process of dividing |
word division
hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
division partition
partitioning
segmentation
sectionalization
sectionalisation | the act of dividing or partitioning, separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
| 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 |
| division | an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication, the quotient of two numbers is computed |
| long division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail |
| short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
| 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 |
| division Archaebacteria | in some classifications considered a kingdom |
| division Eubacteria | oneelled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella |
Cyanophyta
division Cyanophyta | prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom, coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) |
Schizophyta
division Schizophyta | former term for the Cyanophyta |
Protista
division Protista | eukaryotic oneelled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae |
Heterokontophyta
division Heterokontophyta | algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths, terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications |
Chrysophyta
division Chrysophyta | mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment, yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta |
Phaeophyta
division Phaeophyta | coextensive with class Phaeophyceae, in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta |
Euglenophyta
division Euglenophyta | free-swimming flagellate algae |
Chlorophyta
division Chlorophyta | large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls, classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae, obviously ancestral to land plants |
Rhodophyta
division Rhodophyta | lower plants, mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae |
Cynodontia
division Cynodontia | a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth |
Dicynodontia
division Dicynodontia | a division of Therapsida |
brogan
brogue
clodhopper
work shoe | a thick and heavy shoe |
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) |