English Dictionary

work

/wɜː(ɹ)k/

verb

Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business). / Followed by as. Said of one's job title

I work in a hospital.

意味（1）

Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).

I work in a national park

意味（2）

Followed by as. Said of one's job title

This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

意味（3）

Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.

she works for Microsoft

意味（4）

Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.

I work closely with my Canadian counterparts

意味（5）

(intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees;

to work into the earth

意味（6）

(transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.

he worked his way through the crowd

意味（7）

(transitive) To embroider with thread.

意味（8）

(transitive) To set into action.

He worked the levers.

意味（9）

(transitive) To cause to ferment.

意味（10）

(intransitive) To ferment.

the working of beer when the barm is put in

意味（11）

(transitive) To exhaust, by working.

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

意味（12）

(transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.

He used pliers to work the wire into shape.

意味（13）

(transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

she works the night clubs

意味（14）

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

意味（15）

(transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.

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

意味（16）

(transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

She knows how to work the system.

意味（17）

(transitive, law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

I cannot work a miracle.

意味（18）

(transitive) To cause to work.

He is working his servants hard.

意味（19）

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

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

意味（20）

(intransitive, figuratively) To influence.

They worked on her to join the group.

意味（21）

(intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.

His fingers worked with tension.

意味（22）

(intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled

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

意味（23）

(ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, till I said to myself, I wrought him a weal and he requited me with my ill; by Allah, never more will I do any man a service so long as I live!

意味（24）

(obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’

意味（25）

(slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.

I would never have thought those pieces would go together, but she is working it like nobody's business.