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works

US // (wɜːks) //

作品,工程,工作,作业

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : a place where a number of people are employed, such as a factory
    • : the sum total of a writer's or artist's achievements, esp when considered togetherthe works of Shakespeare
    • : the deeds of a person, esp virtuous or moral deeds performed as religious actsworks of charity
    • : the interior parts of the mechanism of a machine, etcthe works of a clock
    • : in the works informal in preparation
    • : spanner in the works See spanner
    • : the works slang full or extreme treatmenta very violent physical beatingto give someone the works
    • : slang a syringe
    • : of or denoting a racing car, etc, that is officially entered by a manufacturer in an eventa works entry

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Examples

  • Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?

  • They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.

  • Mrs. Kouachi works at a nursery and has worn the veil since she made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.

  • Indeed, although he works here in the old town, he lives in the new part of the city where he walks his dog in the morning.

  • Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.

  • Adequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.

  • He was rector of the university of Ilfeldt 40 years, and published several learned works.

  • Her best-known works are portrait busts, which are numerous.

  • She apparently prefers to paint single figures of women and young girls, but her works include a variety of subjects.

  • The reader is referred to larger works upon urinalysis for details.