yakka
swot
w
-ergy
ergo-
bat
⠐⠺
taskwork
marquetry
laboring
social commentary
xyloglyphy
at work
workwise
ecdotic
crank the handle
up
lapidary
dilogy
speculative fiction
coordinator
co-ordinator
ergocentric
handicraft
handcraft
handwork
back catalogue
handiwork
labouring
darg
do one's job
go
employed
microfiction
high fantasy
low fantasy
moil
perspiration
toiling
workless
hustle
mechanics
operance
sweat
hard yakka
work in progress
task
base on
job
out-tray
load
dink
allwork
coming and going
functioning
spadework
book
beaver away
prework
duodecalogue
labour
operation
ingrain
take up the slack
pick up the slack
God's work
grain
jobbing
procedure
décollage
heavy lifting
beaver
matter painting
self-review
art
collar-work
intratask
antiwork
cringe comedy
coact
work
toil
space opera
manual labour
crackalackin'
opuscule
plagiarism
feelgoodery
window of time
dig in
manual labor
pea patch
ecdotic
up
ergocentric
employed
workless
functioning
intratask
antiwork
workwise
yakka
swot
w
bat
taskwork
marquetry
laboring
social commentary
xyloglyphy
lapidary
dilogy
speculative fiction
coordinator
co-ordinator
handicraft
handcraft
handwork
back catalogue
handiwork
labouring
darg
go
microfiction
high fantasy
low fantasy
moil
perspiration
toiling
mechanics
operance
sweat
hard yakka
work in progress
task
job
out-tray
load
dink
allwork
coming and going
spadework
book
prework
duodecalogue
labour
operation
God's work
jobbing
procedure
décollage
heavy lifting
matter painting
self-review
art
collar-work
cringe comedy
space opera
manual labour
opuscule
plagiarism
feelgoodery
window of time
manual labor
pea patch
work
crank the handle
do one's job
go
hustle
base on
beaver away
yakka
ingrain
take up the slack
pick up the slack
grain
beaver
coact
work
sweat
toil
crackalackin'
dig in
suffix
prefix
noun
- A stroke of work.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- Rate of motion; speed.
- Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- A rough walking stick.
- The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- Shale or bituminous shale.
- An old woman.
verb
symbol
noun
- A work of this kind.
- The expression of one's point of view or feelings towards society, usually through literature.
verb
- To perform a process; to do some work.
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adj
- Functional; working.
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Aloft.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Facing upwards.
- Well-informed; current.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
prep
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
noun
- The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- An up quark.
- An upstairs room of a two story house.
- A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
verb
noun
- An act; the working or operation.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
verb
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- Hard work.
- The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
- A spot; a defilement.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
verb
noun
verb
- To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To work.
- To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
- To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To rush or hurry.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
noun
noun
- Hard work; toil.
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- An extremely competitive player.
- The sweating sickness.
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
verb
- To work hard.
- To stress out.
- To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To emit sweat.
- To worry about (something).
- To cause to perspire.
- To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
- To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
- To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- To emit moisture.
- To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
- To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- To worry.
- To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
noun
noun
- A task.
- A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- A sex act.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- Plastic surgery.
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
verb
- To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
- To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
- To work as a jobber.
- To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- To take the loss.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
noun
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- The charge of powder for a firearm.
- A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- The viral load
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- Nonsense; rubbish.
- prepaid phone credit
- The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- A large number or amount.
- The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
verb
- To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- To put runners on first, second and third bases
- To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- To provide in abundance.
- To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- To receive a load.
- To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- to top up or purchase phone credits
- To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To be put into use in an apparatus.
- To put a load on something.
- To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
noun
- A major division of a long work.
- A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- Records of the accounts of a business.
- A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
- Six tricks taken by one side.
- Four of a kind.
- The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- The script of a musical or opera.
- A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
- The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- Any source of instruction.
- The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
- A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
verb
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- To receive the highest grade in a class.
- To leave.
- To reserve (something) for future use.
- To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- simple past tense of bake
- To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
- To travel very fast.
noun
- Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- The act of a mother giving birth.
- A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- A group of moles.
- The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
verb
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- To toil, to work.
noun
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- the state of being in effect or being operative
- a business especially one run on a large scale
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
verb
- thoroughly work in
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- form into grains
- become granular
noun
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a cereal grass
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
noun
verb
noun
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a full beard
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
noun
- The study and the product of these processes.
- Aesthetic value.
- The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
- A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
- A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
- Artwork.
adj
adj
verb
verb
- To cause to work.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
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