Work vs. Job
Worknoun
Employment.
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Labour, occupation, job.
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The place where one is employed.
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One's employer
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Effort.
Worknoun
Effort expended on a particular task.
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Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
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Something on which effort is expended.
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(physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
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A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
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Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
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(heading) Product; the result of effort.
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The result of a particular manner of production.
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Something produced using the specified material or tool.
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(countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
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(countable) A fortification.
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The staging of events to appear as real.
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(mining) Ore before it is dressed.
Worknoun
The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
Workverb
(intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
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Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
Workverb
Followed by as. Said of one's job title
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Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
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Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
Workverb
(transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
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(transitive) To embroider with thread.
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(transitive) To set into action.
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(transitive) To cause to ferment.
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(intransitive) To ferment.
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(transitive) To exhaust, by working.
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(transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
Workverb
(transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
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(transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
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(transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
Workverb
(transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
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(transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
Workverb
(transitive) To cause to work.
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(intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
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To influence.
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(intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
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(intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
Workverb
(intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
Workverb
To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
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To hurt; to ache.
Worknoun
Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physical labor.
Worknoun
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.
Worknoun
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.
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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.
Worknoun
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.
Worknoun
Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
Worknoun
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.
Worknoun
Ore before it is dressed.
Worknoun
Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
Worknoun
Break; twist.
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The causing of motion against a resisting force, measured by the product of the force into the component of the motion resolved along the direction of the force.
Worknoun
Ore before it is dressed.
Workverb
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.
Workverb
Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
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Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
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To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
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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.
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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.
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To ferment, as a liquid.
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To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
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To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
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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.
Workverb
To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
Workverb
To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.
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To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
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To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.
Workverb
To cause to ferment, as liquor.
Worknoun
activity directed toward making or doing something;
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a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing;
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the occupation for which you are paid;
Worknoun
applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading);
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the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it);
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a place where work is done;
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(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;
Workverb
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity;
Workverb
be employed;
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have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected;
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perform as expected when applied;
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shape, form, or improve a material;
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give a work-out to;
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proceed along a path;
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operate in a certain place, area, or specialty;
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proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity;
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move in an agitated manner;
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cause to happen or to occur as a consequence;
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cause to work;
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prepare for crops;
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behave in a certain way when handled;
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have and exert influence or effect;
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operate in or through;
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cause to operate or function;
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provoke or excite;
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gratify and charm, usually in order to influence;
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make something, usually for a specific function;
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move into or onto;
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make uniform;
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use or manipulate to one's advantage;
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find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of;
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cause to undergo fermentation;
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go sour or spoil;
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arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion;
Jobnoun
A task.
Jobnoun
An economic role for which a person is paid.
Jobnoun
(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
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(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
Jobnoun
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
Jobnoun
A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
Jobnoun
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
Jobnoun
(colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
Jobverb
(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
Jobverb
(intransitive) To work as a jobber.
Jobverb
To take the loss.
Jobverb
To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
Jobverb
To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
Jobverb
(intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
Jobverb
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
Jobverb
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
Jobverb
To hire or let in periods of service.
Jobnoun
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
Jobnoun
A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
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A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
Jobnoun
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
Jobnoun
A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
Jobnoun
A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a great job on the David statue.
Jobnoun
A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See job control language.
Jobnoun
The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man.
Jobverb
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
Jobverb
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
Jobverb
To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
Jobverb
To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
Jobverb
To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
Jobverb
To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
Jobverb
To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
Jobverb
To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
Jobnoun
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
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a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;
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the performance of a piece of work;
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the responsibility to do something;
Jobnoun
a workplace; as in the expression
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an object worked on; a result produced by working;
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a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved;
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a damaging piece of work;
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a crime (especially a robbery);
Jobnoun
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
Jobnoun
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
Jobnoun
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
Jobnoun
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Jobverb
profit privately from public office and official business
Jobverb
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Jobverb
work occasionally;
Jobverb
invest at a risk;
Job
A job, employment, work or occupation, is a person's role in society. More specifically, a job is an activity, often regular and often performed in exchange for payment ().
