English Dictionary

work

IPA（発音記号）

/wɜː(ɹ)k/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 広義 古風 複合語中 頻度副詞 俗語 複数形 複数形のみ

Labour, occupation, job. / The place where one is employed. / (by extension) One's employer. / (dated) A factory; a works. / Effort expended on a particular task.

日本語の意味

労働、仕事、職業 / 職場 / 拡張的に雇用主を指す場合もある / （古語）工場、製造所 / 特定の作業にかける努力や労力

Her work as a teacher is both challenging and rewarding.

彼女の教師としての仕事は、挑戦的でありながらやりがいがあります。

意味（1）

Labour, occupation, job.

My work involves a lot of travel.

意味（2）

The place where one is employed.

He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.

意味（3）

(by extension) One's employer.

I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.

意味（4）

(dated) A factory; a works.

In trials of a Martin furnace in a steel work at Remscheiden, Germany, a lining of zirconia was found in good condition after […]

意味（5）

Effort expended on a particular task.

Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.

意味（6）

Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

We know what we must do. Let's go to work.

意味（7）

Something on which effort is expended.

There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.

意味（8）

(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.

Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.

意味（9）

(physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.

Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

意味（10）

(uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.

There's a lot of guesswork involved.

意味（11）

(uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.

We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.

意味（12）

(countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.

It is a work of art.

意味（13）

(countable) A fortification.

William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.

意味（14）

(uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.

意味（15）

(mining) Ore before it is dressed.

意味（16）

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

Tell me you're using clean works at least.

works （ plural ）