Work
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Labour, employment, occupation, job. The place where one is employed. Effort expended on a particular task. A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move. A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.. A literary, artistic, or intellectual production. A fortification. The staging of events to appear as real.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. # Followed by in. Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business). #*: I work in a national park. #*: She works in the human resources department. #*: He mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry. # Followed by as. Said of one's job title #*: I work as a cleaner. # Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs. #*: She works for Microsoft. #*: He works for the president. # Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients. #*: I work closely with my Canadian counterparts. #*: I work with computers. #*: I work with the homeless people from the suburbs. To effect by gradual degrees. To embroider with thread. To set into action. To cause to ferment. To exhaust, by working. To shape, form, or improve a material. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones. To provoke or excite; to influence. To use or manipulate to one's advantage. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence. To cause to work. To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for. (figuratively) To influence. To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth. To move in an agitated manner. To behave in a certain way when handled;
Example sentence: Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Ferment
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.To stir up, agitate, cause unrest.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Something, such as a yeast that causes fermentation.A state of agitation or of turbulent change.A catalyst.
Example sentence: The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.