works

/wɜːks/ · noun

Meaning

(heading) Employment.
(heading) Effort.
Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
(heading) Product; the result of effort.
The staging of events to appear as real.
Ore before it is dressed.
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
To effect by gradual degrees.
To embroider with thread.
To set into action.
To cause to ferment.
To ferment.
A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
(with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
(with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).

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