work
Definitions
Noun
- Activity directed toward making or doing something
- A product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- The occupation for which you are paid
- Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (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
- A place where work is done
- The total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
Verb
- Exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
- Be employed
- Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- Perform as expected when applied
- Shape, form, or improve a material
- Give a workout to
- Proceed along a path
- Operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- Proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- Move in an agitated manner
- Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- Cause to work
- Prepare for crops
- Behave in a certain way when handled
- Have and exert influence or effect
- Operate in or through
- Cause to operate or function
- Provoke or excite
- Gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- Make something, usually for a specific function
- Move into or onto
- Make uniform
- Use or manipulate to one's advantage
- Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- Cause to undergo fermentation
- Go sour or spoil
- Arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "work".
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "work".
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "work".
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "work" in a sentence.
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
---|---|---|---|
1 | work of | 1 | 25 |
2 | work on | 1 | 12 |
3 | work is | 1 | 10 |
4 | work in | 1 | 9 |
5 | work was | 1 | 5 |
6 | work as | 1 | 5 |
7 | work and | 1 | 4 |
8 | work for | 1 | 3 |
9 | work has | 1 | 3 |
10 | work to | 1 | 3 |
11 | work the | 1 | 2 |
12 | work west | 1 | 2 |
13 | work began | 2 | 2 |
14 | work with | 1 | 2 |
15 | work by | 1 | 2 |
16 | work building | 2 | 2 |
17 | work involving | 3 | 2 |
18 | work ethic | 2 | 2 |
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "work" in a sentence.
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
---|---|---|---|
1 | the work | 1 | 19 |
2 | to work | 1 | 15 |
3 | of work | 1 | 7 |
4 | his work | 1 | 6 |
5 | this work | 1 | 5 |
6 | and work | 1 | 5 |
7 | their work | 1 | 3 |
8 | major work | 2 | 3 |
9 | that work | 1 | 2 |
10 | construction work | 3 | 2 |
11 | whose work | 1 | 2 |
12 | innovative work | 4 | 2 |
13 | which work | 1 | 2 |
14 | important work | 3 | 2 |
15 | a work | 1 | 2 |
16 | later work | 2 | 2 |
17 | all work | 1 | 2 |
18 | other work | 2 | 2 |
19 | noted work | 2 | 2 |
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "work" in the same piece of text.
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
---|---|---|---|
1 | construction | 3 | 4 |
2 | want | 1 | 4 |
3 | century | 3 | 2 |
4 | appeared | 2 | 2 |
5 | featured | 2 | 2 |
6 | fact | 1 | 2 |
7 | found | 1 | 2 |
8 | whose | 1 | 2 |
9 | time | 1 | 2 |
10 | attention | 3 | 2 |
11 | initial | 3 | 2 |
12 | norman's | 2 | 2 |
13 | extensive | 3 | 2 |
14 | important | 3 | 2 |
15 | much | 1 | 2 |
16 | contributed | 4 | 2 |
17 | additional | 4 | 2 |
18 | must | 1 | 2 |
19 | based | 1 | 2 |
20 | system | 2 | 2 |
21 | cameras | 3 | 2 |
22 | interdisciplinary | 7 | 2 |
23 | townes | 1 | 2 |
24 | gray's | 1 | 2 |
25 | documents | 3 | 2 |
26 | musical | 3 | 2 |
27 | sometimes | 2 | 2 |
28 | religions | 3 | 2 |
29 | protests | 2 | 2 |
30 | years | 1 | 2 |
31 | luu | 2 | 2 |
32 | impressed | 2 | 2 |
33 | paris | 2 | 2 |
34 | major | 2 | 2 |
35 | continued | 3 | 2 |
36 | journalistic | 4 | 2 |
37 | argued | 2 | 2 |
38 | people | 2 | 2 |
39 | whatever | 3 | 2 |
40 | similar | 3 | 2 |
41 | drawn | 1 | 2 |
42 | amount | 2 | 2 |
43 | detroit | 2 | 2 |
44 | dearborn | 2 | 2 |
45 | went | 1 | 2 |
46 | welfare | 2 | 2 |
47 | social | 2 | 2 |
48 | none | 1 | 2 |
49 | life | 1 | 2 |
50 | began | 2 | 2 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 34
Fragments: 145
Sound Alikes: 4
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 18
Words that Precede: 19
Statistically Associated: 50
Consonant Matches: 3
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
This Word in the News:
Just Like That | Deepika Padukone and the debate about work culture in Bollywood | Latest News India
Jun 8, 2025 Hindustan Times
Jun 8, 2025 Hindustan Times
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Jun 7, 2025 The New York Times
Jun 7, 2025 The New York Times