Word Finder - works

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(heading) Employment.

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(heading) Effort.

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

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We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.

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(heading) Product; the result of effort.

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The staging of events to appear as real.

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Ore before it is dressed.

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The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

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Tell me you're using clean works at least.

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To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

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He’s working in a bar.

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To effect by gradual degrees.

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he worked his way through the crowd

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To embroider with thread.

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To set into action.

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He worked the levers.

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To cause to ferment.

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To ferment.

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To exhaust, by working.

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The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.

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To shape, form, or improve a material.

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He used pliers to work the wire into shape.

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To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

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she works the night clubs

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

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To provoke or excite; to influence.

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The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.

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To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

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She knows how to work the system.

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To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

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I cannot work a miracle.

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To cause to work.

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He is working his servants hard.

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

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he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work

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To influence.

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They worked on her to join the group.

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

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To move in an agitated manner.

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A ship works in a heavy sea.

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To behave in a certain way when handled

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this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well

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(with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

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To hurt; to ache.

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A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.

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A stray wrench can really gum up the works.

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A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.

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The steel works almost fills the valley.

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(with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.

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I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.

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(with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).

The math works the same over time.

My father works in the field, and I take care of the sheep.

It's a very interesting game, though I don't understand how it works exactly.

Later, after everyone had gone, Dean sent out for pizza and both men knocked off a large pie with the works and enough scotch to get silly.

The corn-growers and the revenue collectors were ruined by exorbitant imposts or by the iniquitous cancelling of contracts; temples and private houses were robbed of their works of art; and the rights of Roman citizens were disregarded.

She works with social services.

When Lotze published these works, medical science was still much under the influence of Schelling's philosophy of nature.

The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

It works for us.

His complete works were published in Hungarian at Budapest in 1880-1895.

That was when the water works started.

The large industrial population of the town is occupied in the manufacture of lace, which extended hither from Nottingham; there are also railway carriage works.

Don't think that's how it works.

The spell lasts twenty four hours, but it works.

Dad, this phone is inside a little country store and the lady that works here said it would be all right to give you this number.

Right. Because that always works.

On the strength of these works he offered himself as a candidate for the university chair of jurisprudence, but as he had no personal or family influence was not elected.

The third may be disregarded; but the first and second editions are almost distinct works.

The list of his works occupies five pages in Saxe's Onomasticon.

In her latest works she went back to her earlier themes of romantic and unchartered love, but the scene is shifted from Berri, which she felt she had exhausted, to other provinces of France, and instead of passionate manifestos we have a gallery of genre pictures treated in the spirit of Francois le champi.

Other medical works translated into Latin are the Medicamenta Cordialia, Canticum de Medicina, Tractatus de Syrupo Acetoso.

See the works of Denham, Clapperton, Barth and Nachtigal cited in the biographical notices; Geog.

Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare's works are read and studied around the globe.

Moore's Law works because many thousands of people compete with each other to drive technology forward.

In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying that Napoleon felt the danger of extending his line, that he sought a battle and that his marshals advised him to stop at Smolensk, and of making similar statements to show that the danger of the campaign was even then understood.

I know it works.

I don.t give a shit how it works.

He was an accomplished pianist and composer, although he never published any of his works.

It's the way the world works.

That's how the system works.

He made great contributions to the knowledge of Saadia, and planned a complete edition of Saadia's works in Arabic and French.

Her works are in very deed the echo of our times.

The collected edition of George Sand's works was published in Paris (1862-1883) in 96 volumes, with supplement 109 volumes; The Histoire de Ma Vie appeared in 20 volumes in 1854-1855.

These Hebrew translations were, in their turn, rendered into Latin (by Buxtorf and others) and in this form the works of Jewish authors found their way into the learned circles of Europe.

He translated the works of Bahya, Halevi, Saadiah and the grammatical treatises of Janah.

A large number of cotton mills furnish the chief source of industry; printing, dyeing and bleaching of cotton and calico, spinning and weaving machine making, iron and steel works, and collieries in the neighbourhood, are also important.

Cannock has tool, boiler, brick and tile works.

It is the principal seat of the linen trade in the county, and has extensive cloth and thread factories, bleachfields and chemical works.

Erith has large engineering and gun factories, and in the neighbourhood are gunpowder, oil, glue and manure works.

The southern outfall works of the London main drainage system are at Crossness in the neighbouring lowland called Plumstead Marshes.

Carrara erected a statue to his memory in 1876, and in 1887 the Societe d'economie politique celebrated his centenary with a notice of his life and works.

Representations of apotheoses occur on several works of art; the most important are the apotheosis of Homer on a relief in the Townley collection of the British Museum, that of Titus on the arch of Titus, and that of Augustus on a magnificent cameo in the Louvre.

His published works include numerous sermons and addresses.

A just appreciation of the genius and the writings of Propertius is made sensibly more difficult by the condition in which his works have come down to us.

These are subdivided into twenty provinces, each administered by an administrator of native affairs by whose side is the provincial council consisting of natives and occupied with the discussion of ways and means and questions of public works.

His chief works were Latin versions of Plutarch,.

The last of the direct descendants of Simon Grynaeus was his namesake Simon (1725-1799), translator into German of French and English anti-deistical works, and author of a version of the Bible in modern German (1776).

Extensive works have been carried out along the sea front.

There are blast furnaces, iron foundries, engineering works, iron ship-building yards, extensive saw-mills, flour-mills and a manufactory of "blue and white" pottery.

When the storm had blown over he returned to London, and employed his leisure in works which were less political in their tone.