What is the definition of the word 'work'?

Answer 1

1: activity in which one exerts strength or faculties to do or perform something: a: sustained physical or mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve an objective or result b: the labor, task, or duty that is one's accustomed means of livelihood c: a specific task, duty, function, or assignment often being a part or phase of some larger activity

2 a: energy expended by natural phenomena b: the result of such energy work of sea and wind> c: the transference of energy that is produced by the motion of the point of application of a force and is measured by multiplying the force and the displacement of its point of application in the line of action

3 a: something that results from a particular manner or method of working, operating, or devising work> work> b:something that results from the use or fashioning of a particular material work>

4 a: a fortified structure (as a fort, earthen barricade, or trench) bplural : structures in engineering (as docks, bridges, or embankments) or mining (as shafts or tunnels)5plural but sing or plural in constr : a place where industrial labor is carried on : plant, factory

6plural : the working or moving parts of a mechanism works of a clock>

7 a: something produced or accomplished by effort, exertion, or exercise of skill work of many hands> b: something produced by the exercise of creative talent or expenditure of creative effort : artistic production work by a major writer>

8plural : performance of moral or religious acts works>

9 a: effective operation : effect, result work> b: manner of working : workmanship, execution

10: the material or piece of material that is operated upon at any stage in the process of manufacture

11plural a: everything possessed, available, or belonging works, rod, reel, tackle box, went overboard> works> b: subjection to drastic treatment : all possible abuse -usually used with getworks> or giveworks>

- at work