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- English Word Wordy Definition Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
- English Word Wordy Definition Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
- English Word Wordy Definition Containing many words; full of words.
- English Word Wore Definition imp. of Wear.
- English Word Wore Definition imp. of Ware.
- English Word Wore Definition of Wear
- English Word Work Definition Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
- English Word Work Definition The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.
- English Word Work Definition That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
- English Word Work Definition Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
- English Word Work Definition Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
- English Word Work Definition The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
- English Word Work Definition Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
- English Word Work Definition 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.
- English Word Work Definition Ore before it is dressed.
- English Word Work Definition Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
- English Word Work Definition To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
- English Word Work Definition Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
- English Word Work Definition Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
- English Word Work Definition To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
- English Word Work Definition To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
- English Word Work Definition To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
- English Word Work Definition To ferment, as a liquid.
- English Word Work Definition To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
- English Word Work Definition To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
- English Word Work Definition To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
- English Word Work Definition To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
- English Word Work Definition To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.
- English Word Work Definition To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
- English Word Work Definition To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.