Works of art

Definition

work /wɜ:k/ n ၁။ [U] အလုပ္။ လုပ္ငန္း။ His success was due to sheer hard work. ❍ The work of building the bridge took six months. ❍ Years of research work have failed to produce a cure for the disease. ❍ The study of butterflies has been her life's work. ❍ He never does a stroke of (ie any) work. ❍ She put/ set them to work painting the fence. ❍ The work of calculating tax deductions is done by computer. See also DONKEY-WORK ၂။ [U] (က) လုပ္စရာ။ လုပ္ဖြယ္ေဆာင္တာ။ အလုပ္။ There is plenty of work to be done in the garden. ❍ I have some work for you to do. See also fieldworK, homework ၁ (ခ) လုပ္ငန္း ဆိုင္ရာ စာရြက္စာတမ္း စသည့္ ပစၥည္းပစၥယ။ She took her work (eg books and papers) with her into the garden. ❍ She often brings work (eg files and documents) home with her from the office. ❍ His work was spread all over the floor. See also PAPERWORK ၃။ [U] (က) လက္ရာ။ လက္စြမ္း။ an exhibition of the work of young sculptors ❍ Is this all your own work? (ie Did you do it without help from others?) ❍ The craftsmen sell their work to visitors. ❍ She produced an excellent piece of work in the final examination. (ခ) လက္ခ်က္။ The damage to the painting is the work of vandals. ၄။ [U] (က) အလုပ္အကိုင္။ အလုပ္။ It is difficult to find work in the present economic climate. ❍ When did you start work here? ❍ She had been out of work (ie without a job) for a year. ❍ She's now back in work (ie She has a job) again. ❍ Police work is mainly routine. ❍ The accountant described his work to the sales staff. ❍ full-time/ part-time/ unpaid/ voluntary work ❍ work experience ❍ work clothes. See also PIECE-WORK, SOCIAL WORK (ခ) (the မပါဘဲ သံုးသည္။ ) အလုပ္ဌာန။ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္။ အလုပ္။ She goes to/ leaves for work at 8 o'clock. ❍ What time do you arrive at/ get to work in the morning? ❍ I have to leave work early today. ❍ Her friends from work came to see her in hospital. ၅။ [C often pl ] (စာအုပ္၊ ဂီတ၊ ပန္းခ်ီ စေသာ) လက္ရာ။ the collected/ complete works of Tolstoy ❍ He recognized the sketch as an early work by Degas. Compare WORK OF ART, OPUS ၆။ [U] ( physics ) လႈပ္ရွားမႈျဖစ္ေပၚရန္ အားသံုး ျခင္း။ See also JOULE ၇။ (က) (အထည္ေဟာ ေနာက္ဆက္စကား)။ …ထည္။ wickerwork ❍ woodwork ❍ metailwork. (ခ) (အထည္၊ လက္ရာေဟာ ေနာက္ဆက္စကား)။ needlework ❍ brushwork. (ဂ) (မြမ္းမံျခယ္လွယ္မႈ အမ်ဳိးအမည္ျပေနာက္ဆက္ စကား)။ latticework ❍ paintwork. (ဃ) (အထည္ကိုယ္ျဒပ္ ေဟာ ေနာက္ဆက္စကား)။ framework ❍ network ❍ bodywork. ၈။ the works [pl] စက္အစိတ္အပိုင္း။ စက္။ the works of a clock. ၉။ works [pl] (esp in compounds) … လုပ္ငန္း။ roadworks ❍ public works. ၁၀။ works [sing or pl v ] (esp in compounds) စက္႐ံု။ အလုပ္႐ံု။ an engineering works ❍ a brick-works ❍ There has been an accident at the works. ❍ FACTORY ၁၁။ the works [pl] ( infml ) အျပည့္အစံု အားလံုး။ She was wearing a tiara, a diamond necklace and a gold bracelet— the works! v ၁။ ~ (away) (at/on sth); ~ (under sb) (တစ္ခုခု) လုပ္ေနသည္။ (အလုပ္) လုပ္ကိုင္သည္။ I've been working (away) at my essay all day. ❍ Staff work (for) 35 hours per week. ❍ I worked under her (ie with her as my manager) for two years. ❍ He is working on a new novel. ❍ This craftsman works in leather (ie makes leather goods). ၂။ ~ (for sb/sth) (အတြက္၊ အဖို႔) အလုပ္လုပ္ သည္။ Most people have to work in order to live. ❍ She isn't working now (eg because she has not got a job or has retired). ❍ She works for an engineering company. ၃။ ခိုင္းသည္။ She works herself too hard. ၄။ ~ against/ for sth လံုးပန္းသည္။ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ a statesman who works for peace ❍ The committee is working to get the prisoners freed. ၅။ (က) (စက္) အလုပ္ လုပ္သည္၊ လည္ပတ္သည္။ a lift/ bell/ switch that doesn't work ❍ The gears work smoothly. ❍ It works by electricity. (ခ) (စက္ကို) လည္ပတ္ေစသည္။ Do you know how to work the lathe? တြင္ခံုကိုင္တတ္ရဲ႕လား။ ❍ The machine is worked by wind power. ၆။ ~ (on sb/ sth) စြမ္းသည္။ ထိေရာက္သည္။ ျဖစ္ေျမာက္သည္။ Did the cleaning stuff work (on that stain)? (ie Did it remove it?) ❍ My plan worked, and Igot them to agree. ❍ His charm doesn't work on me (ie does not affect or impress me). ၇။ စီမံ လုပ္ကိုင္သည္။ work a mine/ an oil well ❍ work the land (ie cultivate it) ❍ He works the North Wales area (eg selling a company's goods). ၈။ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္။ work mischief/ havoc/ magic ❍ work a cure/ change/ miracle. ၉။ ~ sth (into sth) ပံုေဖာ္သည္။ ပံုသြန္းသည္။ ပံုသြင္းသည္။ ႏွဲသည္။ work gold/ iron ❍ work clay (ie mix water into it) ❍ work dough (ie when making bread) ❍ work the mixture into a paste. See also WROUGHT ၁၀။ ~ sth (on sth) ပန္းထိုးသည္။ work (a floral pattern on) a cushion cover. ၁၁။ (မ်က္ႏွာ) ရြဲ႕သည္။ တြန္႔႐ံႈ႕သည္။ He stared at me in horror, his face working. ၁၂။ စိမ့္ဝင္သည္။ ထြက္ေနသည္။ Rain has worked (its way) in through the roof. ❍ The back of your shirt has worked out of your trousers. ၁၃။ ကြၽတ္ထြက္သည္။ ကြၽတ္ထြက္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ I was tied up, but managed to work (myself) free. ❍ The screw had worked (itself) loose. ❍ Work the nail out of the wood. ❏ at work [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ေန၊ ရိွေနသည္။ လုပ္ေဆာင္ လ်က္ရိွသည္။ She suspected that secret influences were at work. ❏ at work (on sth) [ IDM ] အလုပ္လုပ္ေနသည္။ He is still at work on the painting. ❍ Danger— men at work! (ie on a road sign). ❏ get (down) to/ set to work (on sth/ to do sth) [ IDM ] စတင္သည္။ အစပ်ဳိးသည္။ ❏ give sb/ sth the works [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ အိတ္သြန္ ဖာေမွာက္ ေျပာသည္၊ ေပးသည္။ ၂။ ေကာင္းေကာင္း၊ အစြမ္း ကုန္သသည္။ They gave the car the works and it looks like new. ၃။ ပယ္ပယ္နယ္နယ္ ႏိွပ္လႊတ္သည္။ ❏ go/ set about one's work [ IDM ] လုပ္သည္။ စလုပ္သည္။ She went cheerfully about her work. ❏ good works [ IDM ] ပရဟိတအလုပ္။ လူမႈေရး အလုပ္။ ❏ have one's work cut out (doing sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ရေသာအခ်ိန္ႏွင့္ အလုပ္ၿပီးရန္ ခက္သည္။ You'll have your work cut out getting there by nine o'clock. ❏ work around/round to sth/ sb [ PHRV ] လိုရာေရာက္ေအာင္ စကားစ အေတာ္ငင္ရသည္။ It was some time before he worked around to what he really wanted to say. ❏ work-basket ( Brit ) ( US work-bag ) n အပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပလံုး။ ❏ work sth in [ PHRV ] ျဖည့္သည္။ စြက္သည္။ Can't you work in a few more jokes? ❏ work it [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႀကံသည္။ ဖန္သည္။ အႀကံအဖန္ လုပ္သည္။ Can you work it so that we get free tickets? ❏ work of art n ( pl works of art ) အႏုပညာလက္ရာ။ a display of works of art ❍ ( fig ) The decoration on the cake was a work of art. ❏ work sth off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေႂကြးဆပ္ဖို႔ ေငြရွာသည္။ work off a large bank loan. ၂။ ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ work off one's anger on sb ❍ work off excess weight by regular exercise. ❏ the work of a moment, second, etc [ IDM ] ခဏေလး ႏွင့္ ၿပီးႏိုင္ေသာ ကိစၥ။ It was the work of a few minutes to hide the damage. ❏ work out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ ျဖစ္လာသည္။ Things have worked out quite well for us. ၂။ ကာယ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းလုပ္သည္။ I work out regularly to keep fit. ၃။ ေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္သည္။ တြက္ခ်က္ႏိုင္သည္။ The sum/ problem doesn't work out. ❏ work sb out [ PHRV ] သေဘာကိုနားလည္သည္။ ဓာတ္ေၾကာသိသည္။ I've never been able to work her out. ❏ work sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ တြက္ခ်က္သည္။ I've worked out your share of the cost at £ 10.50. ၂။ အေျဖ ရွာသည္။ ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ work out a problem/ puzzle/ coded message ❍ Can you work out what these squiggles mean? ၃။ စီစဥ္သည္။ ဖန္တီးသည္။ I've worked out a new marketing strategy. ❍ a well worked-out scheme. ၄။ (usu passive) သတၱဳတြင္း ခန္းသည္။ a worked-out silver mine. ❏ work out at sth [ PHRV ] တြက္ခ်က္ရရိွသည္။ What does our share of the bill work out at? ❏ work sb over [ PHRV ] ( sl ) (ေငြထြက္ေအာင္၊ စကား ထြက္ေအာင္) ထိုးႀကိတ္႐ိုက္ႏွက္သည္။ He'd been worked over by the gang because he couldn't pay. ❏ work-shy adj ( derog ) လက္ေၾကာမတင္းေသာ။ အလုပ္ ေရွာင္တတ္ေသာ။ ❏ work surface n = WORKTOP ❏ work table n (အထူးသျဖင့္ အံဆြဲပါ) အလုပ္စားပြဲ။ ❏ work to sth [ PHRV ] (အစီအစဥ္၊ အခ်ိန္ဇယား စသည္ႏွင့္) ကိုက္ေအာင္ လုပ္ရသည္။ work to a budget ❍ We're working to a very tight deadline (ie We have little time in which to do the work). ❏ work -to- rule n မူလစည္းကမ္းအတိုင္းမွအပ ပို၍ မလုပ္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း အလုပ္သမားထု၏ ကန္႔ကြက္ ဆႏၵျပမႈ။ ❏ work towards sth [ PHRV ] ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ ေအာင္ျမင္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ We're working towards common objectives. ❏ work sth up [ PHRV ] ျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း တိုးတက္ ေအာင္လုပ္သည္၊ ျမႇင့္တင္သည္။ work up support for the party ❍ I can't work up any enthusiasm for his idea. ❏ work sb/ oneself up (into sth) [ PHRV ] (ေဒါသ၊ ေသာက စသည္ ႂကြလာေအာင္) မီးထိုးေပးသည္။ Don't work yourself up/ get worked up over such a trivial matter. ❏ work sth up into sth [ PHRV ] ျပည့္စံု ေကာင္းမြန္ ေအာင္ မြမ္းမံသည္။ I'm working my notes up into a dissertation. ❏ work up to sth [ PHRV ] အထြတ္အထိပ္သို႔ ဦးတည္ ျမင့္တက္လာသည္။ ဦးတည္သည္။ The music worked up to a rousing finale. ❍ I wonder what all this is working up to?

Examples

1. I’ve been working in the garden all day.
2. [work on] : Our thanks go to everybody who has worked on this project.
3. [work to do something] : He worked tirelessly to improve safety conditions in the mines.
4. She always works us too hard.
5. [work in/with] : He works in oils and acrylics
6. painting mostly landscapes.
7. Dominic works part-time.
8. [work in] : I hope to work in marketing when I’m older.
9. [work as] : She worked as a journalist.
10. [work with] : All our nursery nurses are qualified to work with children.
11. [work for] : She works for a big law firm in the city.
12. He worked the clubs long before TV made him famous.
13. The new telephone system seems to be working perfectly.
14. This pen doesn’t work.
15. My brain’s not working very well today.
16. I don’t know how to work this thing.
17. If this plan doesn’t work
18. we’ll think of something else.
19. The strategy seems to be working.
20. The drug works by blocking the spread of the virus.
21. Her dazzling performance worked its magic on the audience (=had a good effect on them).
22. [work for/against someone] : Criticizing your former employer works against you in an interview.
23. [work in someone’s favour/work to someone’s advantage] : The exchange rate is currently working in the company’s favour.
24. The strap of one of her sandals had worked itself loose.
25. She managed to work one hand free.
26. [work yourself into something] : He was slowly working himself into a panic.