works
Operates as intended
Works collects several meanings around effort and production.
A person's works are their creative output: the complete works of Shakespeare.
The works of a watch or clock are its internal mechanism.
A works (or the works) is an industrial facility: a steel works, a gas works.
To give someone the works is to give them everything available—the full treatment, whether pleasant or harsh: I'll have a hot dog with the works.
To be in the works is to be under development.
Supreme artistic achievement
- opusNumbered artistic creation
- oeuvreComplete artistic output
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- collectionGathered set of items
gallery · exhibition · composition · piece · sculpture · painting · installation · retrospective
Industrial production facility
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- plantBotanical organism
- productionMaking or generating something
- assemblyConstructing from components
steelworks · mill · foundry · ironworks · gasworks · waterworks · brickworks · automation
Toothed rotating machine parts
- cogsProjections on a wheel
- movementChange in position
- springsCoils, sources, or leaps
- escapementTick-controlling clock component
pulleys · levers · pistons · bearings · sprockets · hydraulics · cranks · linkages
Paid position of employment
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- officeProfessional work location
- employerOne who employs others
- employeeHired organizational member
profession · occupation · salary · resume · recruitment · promotion · benefits · pension
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- sweatMoisture from skin pores
- exertionVigorous physical effort
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- effortApplied energy toward goals
manual · physical · grueling · backbreaking · tiring · fatigue · strain · hardship
Repair or solution
- shotQuick liquor serving
- hitSuccessful contact or strike
- needlePointed implement for sewing
- spikeSharp rise or point
rig · tracks · mainline · syringe · IV · intravenous · bang · rush
Ongoing preservation effort
- repairRestore to working order
- servicingPerforming routine maintenance
- restorationReturning something to condition
- renovationRestoring to good condition
overhaul · refurbishment · tune-up · reconditioning · preservation · housekeeping · caretaking · groundskeeping
masterpiece
Supreme artistic achievement
collection · gallery · exhibition · composition · piece · sculpture · painting · installation · retrospective · anthology
factory
Industrial production facility
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- plantBotanical organism
- productionMaking or generating something
assembly · steelworks · mill · foundry · ironworks · gasworks · waterworks · brickworks · automation · machinery
gears
Toothed rotating machine parts
escapement · pulleys · levers · pistons · bearings · sprockets · hydraulics · cranks · linkages · actuators
job
Paid position of employment
employee · profession · occupation · salary · resume · recruitment · promotion · benefits · pension · retirement
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
effort · manual · physical · grueling · backbreaking · tiring · fatigue · strain · hardship · endurance
fix
Repair or solution
spike · rig · tracks · mainline · syringe · IV · intravenous · bang · rush · dose
upkeep
Ongoing preservation effort
- repairRestore to working order
- servicingPerforming routine maintenance
- restorationReturning something to condition
renovation · overhaul · refurbishment · tune-up · reconditioning · preservation · housekeeping · caretaking · groundskeeping · custodial
- literary workspoems, novels, poetry, fiction, plays
- worksmasterpieces, compositions, piece, pieces, opus
- inner workingsguts, core, kernel, wiring, circuitry
- verb formsam, are, is, was, were
- Islamic afterlifehereafter, reckoning, scales of justice, heaven and hell, eternal life
- collectionscollection, collections, anthology, anthologies, compilation