'To work at' definitions:
Definition of 'To work at'
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- Work \Work\ (w[^u]rk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Worked (w[^u]rkt), or Wrought (r[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Working.] [AS. wyrcean (imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht); akin to OFries. werka, wirka, OS. wirkian, D. werken, G. wirken, Icel. verka, yrkja, orka, Goth. wa['u]rkjan. [root]145. See Work, n.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you. --Ex. v. 18. [1913 Webster]
- Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well. [1913 Webster]
- We bend to that the working of the heart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce. [1913 Webster]
- We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. --Rom. viii. 28. [1913 Webster]
- This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil. [1913 Webster]
- They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded. --Isa. xix. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea. [1913 Webster]
- Confused with working sands and rolling waves. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth. [1913 Webster]
- Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To ferment, as a liquid. [1913 Webster]
- The working of beer when the barm is put in. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic. [1913 Webster]
- Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. --Grew. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- To work at, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in.
- To work to windward (Naut.), to sail or ply against the wind; to tack to windward. --Mar. Dict. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To work at'
- To work in,
- To work into,
- To work off,
- To work out,
- To work up,
- Work,
- Worked,
- Workful,
- Working,
- at work,
- do work,
- in the works,
- out of work,
- work against,
- work at,
- work for,
- work in,
- work off,
- work on,
- work out,
- work over,
- work through,
- work up,
- worked up,
- working out,
- workings,
- works,
- Bantam work,
- Basket work,
- Berlin work,
- Bolster work,
- Brick works,
- Church work,
- Coal works,
- Copper works,
- Crown work,
- Day's work,
- Drawn work,
- False works,
- Finished work,
- Gatch work,
- Gingerbread work,
- Glass works,
- Hand work,
- Iron works,
- Lip work,
- Loam work,
- Louver work,
- Machine work,
- Master work,
- Mosaic work,
- Muscular work,
- Neat work,
- Nulled work,
- Print works,
- Public works,
- Purfled work,
- Random work,
- Range work,
- Reticulated work,
- Rustic work,
- Sabrina work,
- Sorrento work,
- Stream works,
- Tabernacle work,
- Table work,
- To go to work,
- To set at work,
- To set on work,
- To set to work,
- To strike work,
- To work a passage,
- To work a traverse,
- To work the goaf,
- To work the gob,
- To work to windward,
- Topiary work,
- Unit of work,
- Upper works,
- Vermicular work,
- Vermiculated work,
- Virtual work,
- Working beam,
- Working class,
- Working day,
- Working drawing,
- Working house,
- Working model,
- Working pit,
- Working point,
- Works of supererogation,
- art work,
- body of work,
- cold work,
- complete works,
- detective work,
- dirty work,
- dramatic work,
- drove work,
- electrical work,
- field work,
- intelligence work,
- line of work,
- literary work,
- missionary work,
- piece of work,
- police work,
- put to work,
- reference work,
- scut work,
- sewage works,
- social work,
- tambour work,
- undercover work,
- welfare work,
- whole works,
- work animal,
- work bench,
- work camp,
- work day,
- work flow,
- work force,
- work in progress,
- work load,
- work of art,
- work papers,
- work party,
- work permit,
- work shift,
- work shoe,
- work song,
- work stoppage,
- work study,
- work surface,
- work table,
- work time,
- work to rule,
- work toward,
- work unit,
- work well,
- work wonders,
- work-in,
- working agreement,
- working capital,
- working dog,
- working girl,
- working group,
- working man,
- working memory,
- working papers,
- working party,
- working person,
- working principle,
- working rule,
- works council,
- works covenant of,
- works good,
- works program,
- Grotto-work,
- Repouss'e work,
- To work double tides,
- Tut-work,
- Wonder-working,
- Working-day,
- dye-works,
- hot-work,
- make-work,
- pis'e work,
- work-board,
- work-clothes,
- work-clothing,
- work-shirt,
- work-shy,
- working-class,
- hot-work steel,
- sheet-metal work,
- tool-and-die work,
- work-study program,
- propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar