works
pronunciation
How to pronounce works in British English:
UK [wə:ks]
How to pronounce works in American English:
US [wəks]
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- Noun:
- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- everything available; usually preceded by `the'
- performance of moral or religious acts
- the internal mechanism of a device
Word Origin
- works (n.)
- Old English, "(someone's) deeds, acts, or actions, the things one has done in life," often especially "good deeds, acts of piety, demonstrations of virtue," plural of work (n.). Meaning "operations pertinent to maintaining a large physical place" (private, religious, or municipal) is from late 14c. Meaning "industrial place" (usually with qualifying adjective) is from late 15c. To be in the works in the extended sense of "in the process of being done or made" is by 1973.
Example
- 1. The system works in tandem with warning lights on the dashboard .
- 2. * Nine well-known chinese authors are suing apple ( aapl ) for selling illegal versions of their works .
- 3. Unfortunately , the metro is just about the only thing left in the country that works .
- 4. For starters , the venture capital round had been in the works for more than a month .
- 5. I mean he 's been in the senate , he knows how the senate works .