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📖 Определения и значения для слова work

📒 to do something that involves physical or mental effort, especially as part of a job

  • I can't work if I'm cold.
  • The kids always work hard at school.
  • work on something The whole team is currently working on the project.

📒 to have a job

  • Both my parents work.
  • to work in an office/a factory
  • work for somebody/something She works for an engineering company.

📒 to make efforts to achieve something

  • work for something She dedicated her life to working for peace.
  • work to do something The committee is working to get the prisoners freed.
  • work together We have proved that different groups can work harmoniously together.

📒 to make yourself/somebody work, especially very hard

  • She works herself too hard.
  • He says they're working him hard.

📒 to function; to operate

  • The printer isn't working.
  • How does the device actually work?
  • Are they any closer to understanding how the brain works?

📒 to make a machine, device, etc. operate

  • Do you know how to work the coffee machine?
  • The machine is worked by wind power.

📒 to have the result or effect that you want

  • The pills the doctor gave me aren't working.
  • My plan worked, and I got them to agree.
  • The system seemed to work well.

📒 to have a particular effect

  • work against somebody Your age can work against you in this job.
  • work in somebody’s favour Speaking Italian should work in his favour.
  • You can make your youth work to your advantage.

📒 to manage or operate something to gain benefit from it

  • to work the land (= grow crops on it, etc.)
  • Boys who didn't go to school worked the land with their fathers.
  • He works a large area (= selling a company's goods, etc.).

📒 to make a material into a particular shape or form by pressing, stretching, hitting it, etc.

  • work something to work clay
  • to work gold
  • work something into something to work the mixture into a paste

📒 to use a particular material to produce a picture or other item

  • an artist working in oils
  • a craftsman working with wool

📒 to move violently

  • He stared at me in horror, his mouth working.

📒 to move or pass to a particular place or state, usually gradually

  • + adv./prep. It will take a while for the drug to work out of your system.
  • He worked his way to the top of his profession.
  • work yourself/something + adj. I was tied up, but managed to work myself free.

📒 to arrange something in a particular way, especially by being clever

  • Can you work it so that we get free tickets?
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