English Dictionary

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
Source : opted (174452)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (174453)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (174454)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (174455)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (174456)  - auto

The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
Source : opted (174457)  - auto

Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
Source : opted (174458)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (174459)  - auto

Ore before it is dressed.
Source : opted (174460)  - auto

Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
Source : opted (174461)  - auto