Work vs. Service

Worknoun

Employment.

Worknoun

Labour, occupation, job.

Worknoun

The place where one is employed.

Worknoun

One's employer

Worknoun

Effort.

Worknoun

Effort expended on a particular task.

Worknoun

Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

Worknoun

Something on which effort is expended.

Worknoun

(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.

Worknoun

A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.

Worknoun

Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.

Worknoun

(heading) Product; the result of effort.

Worknoun

The result of a particular manner of production.

Worknoun

Something produced using the specified material or tool.

Worknoun

(countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.

Worknoun

(countable) A fortification.

Worknoun

The staging of events to appear as real.

Worknoun

(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.

Workverb

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

Workverb

Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.

Workverb

Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.

Workverb

(transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.

Workverb

(transitive) To embroider with thread.

Workverb

(transitive) To set into action.

Workverb

(transitive) To cause to ferment.

Workverb

(intransitive) To ferment.

Workverb

(transitive) To exhaust, by working.

Workverb

(transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.

Workverb

(transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

Workverb

(transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.

Workverb

(transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.

Workverb

(transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

Workverb

(transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

Workverb

(transitive) To cause to work.

Workverb

(intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

Workverb

To influence.

Workverb

(intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.

Workverb

(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).

Workverb

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.

Worknoun

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.

Worknoun

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.

Workverb

Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.

Workverb

To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.

Workverb

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.

Workverb

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.

Workverb

To ferment, as a liquid.

Workverb

To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.

Workverb

To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.

Workverb

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.

Workverb

To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.

Workverb

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;

Worknoun

a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing;

Worknoun

the occupation for which you are paid;

Worknoun

applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading);

Worknoun

the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it);

Worknoun

a place where work is done;

Worknoun

(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;

Workverb

have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected;

Workverb

perform as expected when applied;

Workverb

shape, form, or improve a material;

Workverb

give a work-out to;

Workverb

proceed along a path;

Workverb

operate in a certain place, area, or specialty;

Workverb

proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity;

Workverb

move in an agitated manner;

Workverb

cause to happen or to occur as a consequence;

Workverb

cause to work;

Workverb

prepare for crops;

Workverb

behave in a certain way when handled;

Workverb

have and exert influence or effect;

Workverb

operate in or through;

Workverb

cause to operate or function;

Workverb

provoke or excite;

Workverb

gratify and charm, usually in order to influence;

Workverb

make something, usually for a specific function;

Workverb

move into or onto;

Workverb

make uniform;

Workverb

use or manipulate to one's advantage;

Workverb

find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of;

Workverb

cause to undergo fermentation;

Workverb

go sour or spoil;

Workverb

arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion;

Servicenoun

An act of being of assistance to someone.

Servicenoun

(economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.

Servicenoun

A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.

Servicenoun

(computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.

Servicenoun

The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group

Servicenoun

The military.

Servicenoun

A set of dishes or utensils.

Servicenoun

(sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.

Servicenoun

A religious rite or ritual.

Servicenoun

(legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.

Servicenoun

A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.

Servicenoun

A musical composition for use in churches.

Servicenoun

(obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.

Servicenoun

(nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.

Serviceverb

(transitive) To serve.

Serviceverb

(transitive) To perform maintenance.

Serviceverb

To inseminate through sexual intercourse

Serviceverb

To perform a sexual act.

Servicenoun

A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.

Servicenoun

The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love.

Servicenoun

The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.

Servicenoun

Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.

Servicenoun

Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.

Servicenoun

Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.

Servicenoun

Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail.

Servicenoun

Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.

Servicenoun

The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.

Servicenoun

The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpŒna or an attachment.

Servicenoun

The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.

Servicenoun

The act of serving the ball.

Servicenoun

Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13.

Servicenoun

work done by one person or group that benefits another;

Servicenoun

a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation

Servicenoun

the act of public worship following prescribed rules;

Servicenoun

an act of help or assistance;

Servicenoun

employment in or work for another;

Servicenoun

a force that is a branch of the armed forces

Servicenoun

the performance of duties by a waiter or servant;

Servicenoun

periodic maintenance on a car or machine;

Servicenoun

tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table

Servicenoun

(sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play;

Servicenoun

the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone;

Servicenoun

Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958)

Servicenoun

a means of serving;

Servicenoun

the act of mating by male animals;

Servicenoun

(law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him

Serviceverb

be used by; as of a utility;

Serviceverb

make fit for use;

Serviceverb

mate with;

Servicenoun

the action of helping or doing work for someone

Servicenoun

an act of assistance

Servicenoun

assistance or advice given to customers during and after the sale of goods

Servicenoun

the action of serving food and drinks to customers

Servicenoun

short for service charge

Servicenoun

a period of employment with a company or organization

Servicenoun

employment as a servant

Servicenoun

the use which can be made of a machine

Servicenoun

a system supplying a public need such as transport, communications, or utilities such as electricity and water

Servicenoun

a public department or organization run by the state

Servicenoun

the armed forces

Servicenoun

an area with parking beside a major road supplying petrol, refreshments, and other amenities to motorists.

Servicenoun

a ceremony of religious worship according to a prescribed form

Servicenoun

a periodic routine inspection and maintenance of a vehicle or other machine

Servicenoun

a set of matching crockery used for serving a particular meal

Servicenoun

(in tennis and other racket sports) the action or right of serving to begin play.

Servicenoun

a serve.

Servicenoun

the formal delivery of a document such as a writ or summons.

Serviceverb

perform routine maintenance or repair work on (a vehicle or machine)

Serviceverb

supply and maintain systems for public utilities and transport and communications in (an area)

Serviceverb

perform a service or services for (someone)

Serviceverb

pay interest on (a debt)

Serviceverb

(of a male animal) mate with (a female animal)

Serviceverb

have sexual intercourse with or give sexual gratification to (someone).