| 释义 | View usage for: (wɑːrk, wɔːrk) noun  a Scot word for work  (wɜːk) noun1. physical or mental effort directed towards doing or making something 2. paid employment at a job or a trade, occupation, or profession 3. a duty, task, or undertaking 4. something done, made, etc, as a result of effort or exertion  a work of art 5. materials or tasks on which to expend effort or exertion 6.   another word for workmanship (sense 3) 7. the place, office, etc, where a person is employed 8. any piece of material that is undergoing a manufacturing operation or process; workpiece 9. a. decoration or ornamentation, esp of a specified kind b. (in combination)  wirework  woolwork 10. an engineering structure such as a bridge, building, etc 11.  informal plastic surgery performed for cosmetic reasons 12.  physics the transfer of energy expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which itspoint of application moves in the direction of the forceAbbreviation: W, w 13. a structure, wall, etc, built or used as part of a fortification system 14.  at work 15.  make short work of 16. (modifier) of, relating to, or used for work  work clothes  a work permit verb17. (intransitive) to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something 18. (intransitive) to be employed 19. (transitive) to carry on operations, activity, etc, in (a place or area)  that sales team works the southern region 20. (transitive) to cause to labour or toil  he works his men hard 21. to operate or cause to operate, esp properly or effectively  to work a lathe  that clock doesn't work 22. (transitive) to till or cultivate (land) 23. to handle or manipulate or be handled or manipulated  to work dough 24. to shape, form, or process or be shaped, formed, or processed  to work copper 25. to reach or cause to reach a specific condition, esp gradually  the rope worked loose 26. (transitive) mainly US and Canadian to solve (a mathematical problem) 27. (intransitive) to move in agitation  her face worked with anger 28. (transitive; often foll by up) to provoke or arouse  to work someone into a frenzy 29. (transitive) to effect or accomplish  to work one's revenge 30. to make (one's way) with effort  he worked his way through the crowd 31. (transitive) to make or decorate by hand in embroidery, tapestry, etc  working a sampler 32. (intransitive) (of a mechanism) to move in a loose or otherwise imperfect fashion 33. (intransitive) (of liquids) to ferment, as in brewing 34. (transitive) informal to manipulate or exploit to one's own advantage 35. (transitive) slang to cheat or swindleDerived formsworkless (ˈworkless)  adjectiveworklessness (ˈworklessness) nounWord origin Old English weorc  (n), wircan, wyrcan  (vb); related to Old High German wurchen,  German wirken,  Old Norse yrkja,  Gothic waurkjan |