Temporary Disabled. :) please Go back work - Simple English Wiktionary www.fgks.org » Address: [go: up one dir, main page] Include Form Remove Scripts Accept Cookies Show Images Show Referer Rotate13 Base64 Strip Meta Strip Title Session Cookies Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Links Main PageSimple talkCommunity portalStatisticsNew changesShow any entryHelpGive to WiktionaryWord lists Search Search Create account Log in Personal tools Create account Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more ContributionsTalk Contents move to sidebar hide Beginning 1 Pronunciation 2 Verb Toggle Verb subsection 2.1 Related words 3 Noun Toggle Noun subsection 3.1 Related words Toggle the table of contents work 71 languages ÆngliscالعربيةAragonésAsturianuAzərbaycancaবাংলা閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gúБългарскиBrezhonegCatalàČeštinaCorsuCymraegDanskDeutschEestiΕλληνικάEnglishEspañolEuskaraفارسیFrançais한국어Հայերենहिन्दीHrvatskiIdoInterlingueÍslenskaItalianoಕನ್ನಡҚазақшаKiswahiliKurdîລາວLatinaLatviešuLëtzebuergeschLietuviųLimburgsMagyarМакедонскиMalagasyമലയാളംမြန်မာဘာသာNa Vosa VakavitiNederlands日本語NorskOccitanOromooOʻzbekcha / ўзбекчаភាសាខ្មែរPlattdüütschPolskiPortuguêsРусскийGagana SamoaSängöShqipSuomiSvenskaதமிழ்తెలుగుไทยTürkçeУкраїнськаاردوVènetoTiếng Việt中文 EntryTalk English ReadEditView history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions ReadEditView history General What links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkPage informationCite this pageGet shortened URLDownload QR code Print/export Create a bookDownload as PDFPage for printing From Wiktionary work is on the Basic English 850 List. word - work - worm work is one of the 1000 most common headwords. word - work - world Pronunciation[change] (UK) IPA (key): /wɜːk/ (US) IPA (key): /wɝk/ Audio (US)(file) Audio (UK)(file) Verb[change] Plain form work Third-person singular works Past tense worked Past participle worked Present participle working (intransitive) If you work, you do a job, usually for money. My father works at Microsoft. I got to work at 7:30 each morning. (intransitive) If you work you are doing something that needs effort. I worked on my school paper all night long. (intransitive) If somethings works it has done what it was supposed to do. If my computer didn't work I couldn't type this. I'm glad our plan worked. (intransitive) How something works is how it does what it does. I would like to know more about how cars work. The rules here just do not work that way. Related words[change] worker Noun[change] Singular work Plural works (uncountable) Your work is your job. (uncountable) Work is effort it takes to do something. That is, its what makes you tired when you do something hard. Moving heavy logs takes a lot of work. (uncountable); (physics) Work is force through a distance (force times distance). This is how much energy you used to move something. (countable) A work is the product of something, the result of working on it. That is, its something someone has made. The painting was a great work of art. Shakespeare wrote many literary works. Related words[change] energy power Categories: BE850BNC1 headwordsVerbsRegular verbsIntransitive verbsNounsUncountable nounsPhysicsCountable nounsWork Toggle limited content width
Plain form work
Third-person singular works
Past tense worked
Past participle worked
Present participle working
Singular work
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