Look up: work

1. Work
   Work is slang for to cheat or swindle.
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2. Work
   Work is slang for to cheat or swindle.
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3. Work
   The use of mental or physical effort to produce a good or service.
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4. Work
   The activity by which human beings produce from the natural world and so ensure their survival. Work should not be thought of exclusively as paid employment. In traditional cultures, there was only a rudimentary monetary system, and very few people worked for money payments. In modern societies, the...
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5. work
   [n] - (physics) a manifestation of energy 2. [n] - a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing 3. [n] - activity directed toward making or doing something 4. [v] - behave in a certain way when handled 5. [v] - operate in a c...
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6. Work
   Application of a force through a distance; it is measured in joules (J, kJ, MJ).
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7. Work
   The product of the force along the direction of motion and the distance moved.Measured in energy units, joules.whereW = work done [J]F = applied force [N]s = distance moved in the direction of the force [m]
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8. work
   (Learning Modules / Mathematics / Gravity) Work is done whenever a force moves along its line of action ie: newtons times metres equals Joules of work.
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9. work
   Compare with heat. Work is the energy required to move an object against an opposing force. Work is usually expressed as a force times a displacement. Dropping a stone from a window involves no work, because there is no force opposing the motion (unless you consider air friction...). Pushing against...
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10. work
    Expression of the movement of an object against some force.
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11. work
    Physical work is done when a force makes something move. Work is defined by the formula, work done = force × displacement and its unit is the newton metre (Nm) or the joule (J).
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12. work
    The amount of energy transferred to a system
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13. Work
    The components, articles or work pieces being processed.
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14. Work
    employment at a job or occupation; either formal or informal.
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15. work
    the outcome of building or civil engineering,works taken as a whole that is sufficient of itself to fulfil an economic and technical function Category: Management in the public and private sector • quantity equal to the scalar product of a force and the corresponding displacement vector ...
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16. Work
    Work (wûrk) noun [ Middle English work , werk , weorc , Anglo-Saxon weorc , worc ; akin to OFries. werk , wirk , Old Saxon , D., & German werk , Old High German werc , werah , I...
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17. Work
    Work (wûrk) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Worked (wûrkt), or Wrought (rat); present participle & verbal noun Working .] [ Anglo-Saxon wyrcean (imp. wo...
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18. Work
    Work (wûrk) transitive verb 1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. « He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they for...
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19. Work
    Work noun 1. (Cricket) Break; twist. [ Cant] 2. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force, measured by the product of the force into the component of the motion resolved along the direction of the force. «...
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20. work
    <chemistry> Energy transferred by mechanical means, force acting over a distance. For chemical systems the sign for work is positive, if work is done on the system and negative, if work is done by the system. An example is the expansion of a gas against the external, atmospheric pressure. In t...
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21. work
    piece of work noun a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; `it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works`; `the symphony was hailed...
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22. work
    noun activity directed toward making or doing something; `she checked several points needing further work`
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23. work
    noun (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force; `work equals force times distance`
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24. work
    verb cause to work; `he is working his servants hard`
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25. work
    noun applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); `mastering a second language requires a lot of work`; `no schools offer graduate study in interior design`
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