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Meaning:
Noun:
- countable A fortification.
- countable A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- uncountable Effort expended on a particular task.
- uncountable Labour, employment, occupation, job.
- 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.
- slang|professional wrestling The staging of events to appear as real.
- uncountable The place where one is employed.
- thermodynamics A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.
[[http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055 See http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]].
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Verb:
- intransitive (''figuratively'') To influence.
- intransitive To behave in a certain way when handled;
- intransitive To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- intransitive To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
- intransitive To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- intransitive To move in an agitated manner.
- Zymurgy To cause to ferment.
- transitive To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- transitive To cause to work.
- transitive To effect by gradual degrees.
- transitive To embroider with thread.
- transitive To exhaust, by working.
- transitive To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- transitive To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
- transitive To provoke or excite; to influence.
- transitive To set into action.
- transitive To shape, form, or improve a material.
- transitive To use or manipulate to one?s advantage.
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