{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "wərk" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (RP)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (southern England)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom; akin to Scots wark, Saterland Frisian Wierk, West Frisian wurk, Dutch werk, German Werk, German Low German Wark, Danish værk, Norwegian Bokmål verk, Norwegian Nynorsk verk, Swedish verk and yrke, Icelandic verk, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌹 (gawaurki), Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (from ϝέργον (wérgon)), Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰‎ (vərəz, “to work, to perform”), Armenian գործ (gorc, “work”), Albanian argëtoj (“entertain, reward, please”). English cognates include bulwark, boulevard, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright. Doublet of ergon.", "From Middle English werken and worchen, from Old English wyrċan and wircan (Mercian), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Old Frisian werka, wirka, Old Saxon wirkian, Low German warken, Dutch werken, Old High German wurken (German wirken, werken and werkeln), Old Norse yrkja and orka, (Swedish yrka and orka), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waurkjan)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(heading, uncountable) employment.", "submean": [ "labour, occupation, job.\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:occupation\nMy work involves a lot of travel.\n", "The place where one is employed.\nHe hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.", "(by extension) One's employer.\nI want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.", "(dated) A factory; a works.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(heading, uncountable) effort.", "submean": [ "effort expended on a particular task.\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:work\nHolding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.", "Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.\nWe know what we must do. Let's go to work.\nWe don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.\n", "Something on which effort is expended.\nThere's lots of work waiting for me at the office.", "(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.\nWork is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.", "(physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(heading) Product; the result of effort.", "submean": [ "(uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.\nThere's a lot of guesswork involved.", "(uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.\nWe've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.", "(countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.\nIt is a work of art.\nthe poetic works of Alexander Pope\n", "(countable) A fortification.\nWilliam the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works." ] }, { "mean": "(uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real." }, { "mean": "(mining) Ore before it is dressed." }, { "mean": "(slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)\nTell me you're using clean works at least." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(product (combining form)): -ing" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.\nHe’s working in a bar.", "submean": [ "Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).\nI work in a national park\nshe works in the human resources department\nhe mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry", "Followed by as. Said of one's job title\n\nI work as a cleaner.", "Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.\nshe works for Microsoft\nhe works for the president", "Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.\nI work closely with my Canadian counterparts\nyou work with computers\nshe works with the homeless people from the suburbs" ] }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees;\nto work into the earth" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.\nhe worked his way through the crowd\nthe dye worked its way through\nusing some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To embroider with thread." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To set into action.\nHe worked the levers." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cause to ferment." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To ferment." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To exhaust, by working.\nThe mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.\nHe used pliers to work the wire into shape." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.\nshe works the night clubs\nthe salesman works the Midwest" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.\nThe rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.\nShe knows how to work the system." }, { "mean": "(transitive, law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.\nI cannot work a miracle." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cause to work.\nHe is working his servants hard." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.\n\nhe 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" }, { "mean": "(intransitive, figuratively) To influence.\nThey worked on her to join the group." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.\nHis fingers worked with tension.\nA ship works in a heavy sea." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled\nthis dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well" }, { "mean": "(ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad)." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache." }, { "mean": "(slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.\nI would never have thought those pieces would go together, but she is working it like nobody's business." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "\"work\" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 334." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }