work

Pronunciation: [wә:k]

Average Rank: 130

Source: ECDICT

n. 工作, 劳动, 职业, 行为, 功, 作品, 成果, 产品, 工程 vi. 工作, 劳动, 做, 运转, 起作用, 被加工 vt. 使工作, 使转动, 开动, 使用, 经营, 使逐渐变得, 造成

n. activity directed toward making or doing something
n. a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
n. (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
v. exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity

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Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk

Present Participle: working

3rd Person: works

Past: worked

Past Participle: worked

Word Frequency Rankings

#101

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 99.0% (Top 99.0% most frequent)

99.0%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#176

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 98.2% (Top 98.2% most frequent)

98.2%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

#113

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 98.9% (Top 98.9% most frequent)

98.9%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.