name
Meaning 1
plural of Work
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
works
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /wɜːks/
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General-American: /wɝks/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)ks
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CMU ARPABET: W ER1 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
plural of work in its countable senses
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial facilities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The steel works almost fills the valley.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A mechanism or machinery; the means by which something happens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only, with-definite-article
Examples
- I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: all the marbles, bag and baggage, everytang, everything but the galley stove, everything but the kitchen sink, everything under the sun, full monty, hook, line and sinker, kit and caboodle, lock, stock and barrel, the whole bang shoot, the whole nine yards, the works, whole ball of wax, whole hog, whole enchilada, whole kit and caboodle, whole package, whole shebang, whole shitting match, whole shooting match, whole smash
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only, with-definite-article
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A heroin or other drug addict's equipment: syringes, needles, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
third-person singular simple present indicative of work
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
performance of moral or religious acts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- salvation by deeds
- the reward for good works
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deeds
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: activity
noun
Meaning 10
buildings for carrying on industrial labor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: plant, industrial plant
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: building complex, complex
Narrower terms: bottling plant, brewery, distillery, still, factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory, mint, packinghouse, packing plant, recycling plant, refinery, saltworks, sewage disposal plant, disposal plant, smelter, smeltery
noun
Meaning 11
the internal mechanism of a device
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: workings
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mechanism
noun
Meaning 12
everything available; usually preceded by `the'
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we saw the whole shebang
- a hotdog with the works
- we took on the whole caboodle
- for $10 you get the full treatment
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle, whole kit, whole caboodle, whole works, full treatment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: entirety, entireness, integrality, totality
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: werken — plural form of work (in its countable senses)
- German: Arbeiten — plural form of work (in its countable senses)
- Hungarian: művek — plural form of work (in its countable senses)
- Hungarian: munkák — plural form of work (in its countable senses)
- Hungarian: munkálatok — plural form of work (in its countable senses)
- Ido: labori — plural form of work (in its countable senses)
- Polish: prace — plural form of work (in its countable senses)
- Bulgarian: механизъм (mehanizǎm) — a mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens
- Finnish: kone — a mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens
- Hungarian: gépezet — a mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens
- Hungarian: szerkezet — a mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens
- Hungarian: óramű — a mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens
- Hungarian: óraszerkezet — a mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens
- Hungarian: felépítés — a mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens
- Polish: mechanizm — a mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens
- Bulgarian: завод (zavod) — a factory
- Bulgarian: фабрика (fabrika) — a factory
- Estonian: tehas — a factory
- Hungarian: gyár — a factory
- Hungarian: üzem — a factory
- Hungarian: -mű — a factory
- Hungarian: művek — a factory
- Hungarian: telep — a factory
- Māori: wharemahi — a factory
- Polish: fabryka — a factory
- Polish: zakład — a factory
- Hungarian: minden — everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food
- Hungarian: komplett — everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food
- Hungarian: az egész — everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food
- Hungarian: mindenség — everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food
- Hungarian: hóbelevanc — everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food
- Hungarian: miskulancia — everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food
- Dutch: daden — an act associated with moral or religious standing
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