Noun
1 buildings for carrying on industrial labor;
"they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles" [syn:
plant, industrial
plant]
2 everything available; usually preceded by
`the'; "we saw the whole shebang"; "a hotdog with the works"; "we
took on the whole caboodle"; "for $10 you get the full treatment"
[syn: whole
shebang, whole
kit and caboodle, kit and
caboodle, whole
kit and boodle, kit and
boodle, whole kit,
whole
caboodle, whole works,
full
treatment]
3 performance of moral or religious acts;
"salvation by deeds"; "the reward for good works" [syn: deeds]
4 the internal mechanism of a device [syn:
workings]
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Noun
works- Plural of work
- A mechanism or
machine; the means by
which something happens.
- A stray wrench can really gum up the works.
- Everything or everything that is available
or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
- I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.
- An act associated with
moral or religious standing.
- His works displayed his righteousness.
Translations
Plural form of work
A mechanism or machine; the means by which
something happens
- Finnish: kone
Everything or everything that is available or
possible; especially, all available toppings on food
An act associated with moral or religious
standing
Verb
works- third-person singular of work
Works may refer to:
- The Works, various music albums
- An author's or artist's body of work of art
- Engineering structures, projects, and so on, including:
- Public works, engineering projects carried out by the state on behalf of the community
- Earthworks (engineering), created through moving soil or unformed rock
- Waterworks, another name for a water supply system
- Microsoft Works, a collection of office productivity programs created by Microsoft
- AppleWorks and iWork, two other collections of office productivity programs created by Apple Inc.
- In motorsports, works are cars sponsored and tuned by automobile manufacturers; see factory-backed
- In Horse Racing, works are the timings of a horses workouts.
- In New Zealand the former Ministry of Works
- In common slang, works can mean "is a good enough solution", as in "That works for me".
- In theology, works are good deeds, human actions
- Commonly used with the doctrine of "salvation through works"
- See also: Divine grace
- HowStuffWorks
works in German: Works
works in French: Works
works in Japanese: ワークス