Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 40
Wordiness (n.) The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness. -- Jeffrey.
Wordiness (n.) Boring verbosity [syn: prolixity, prolixness, windiness, long-windedness, wordiness].
Wording (n.) The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing.
It is believed this wording was above his known style. -- Milton.
Wording (n.) The manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage" -- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage].
Wordish (a.) Respecting words; full of words; wordy. [R.] -- Sir P. Sidney. -- Word"ish*ness, n.
The truth they hide by their dark woordishness. -- Sir K. Digby.
Wordle (n.) One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc. -- Knight.
Wordless (a.) Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless. -- Shak.
Wordless (a.) Expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless].
Wordlist (n.) [ C ] (Language) 詞彙表 A list of words, for example words that someone has to learn, or words explained in a dictionary.
Wordsman (n.) One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. [R.] "Some speculative wordsman." -- H. Bushnell.
Wordy (a.) Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war. -- Cowper.
Wordy (a.) Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
Wordy (a.) Containing many words; full of words.
We need not lavish hours in wordy periods. -- Philips.
Wordy (a.) Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn: long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy].
Wore () imp. of Wear.
Wore () imp. of Ware.
Work (n.) Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. -- Milton.
Work (n.) The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.
Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet know not of. -- Shak.
In every work that he began . . . he did it with all his heart, and prospered. -- 2 Chron. xxxi. 21.
Work (n.) That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
To leave no rubs or blotches in the work. -- Shak.
The work some praise, And some the architect. -- Milton.
Fancy . . . Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams. -- Milton.
The composition or dissolution of mixed bodies . . . is the chief work of elements. -- Sir K. Digby.
Work (n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison.
Work (n.) Specifically: (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
I am glad I have found this napkin; . . . I'll have the work ta'en out, And give 't Iago. -- Shak.
Work (n.) pl. Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
Work (n.) pl. The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
Work (n.) Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Work (n.) (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.
Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. -- Clerk Maxwell.
Work (n.)
Work (n.) pl. (Script.) Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
He shall reward every man according to his works. -- Matt. xvi. 27.
Faith, if it hath not works, is dead. -- James ii. 17.
Work (n.) (Cricket) Break; twist. [Cant]
Work (n.) (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force, measured by the product of the force into the component of the motion resolved along the direction of the force.
Energy is the capacity of doing work. . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. -- Clerk Maxwell.
Work (n.) (Mining) Ore before it is dressed.
Muscular work (Physiol.), The work done by a muscle through the power of contraction.
To go to work, To begin laboring; to commence operations; to contrive; to manage. "I 'll go another way to work with him." -- Shak.
To set on work, To cause to begin laboring; to set to work. [Obs.] -- Hooker.
To set to work, To employ; to cause to engage in any business or labor.
Worked (imp. & p. p.) of Work.
Wrought () of Work.
Working (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Work.
Work (v. i.) To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness? -- Shak.
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you. -- Ex. v. 18.
Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass. -- Sir J. Davies.
Work (v. i.) Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
We bend to that the working of the heart. -- Shak.
Work (v. i.) Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. -- Rom. viii. 28.
This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught. -- Locke.
She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. -- Hawthorne.
Work (v. i.) To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded. -- Isa. xix. 9.
Work (v. i.) To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
Confused with working sands and rolling waves. -- Addison.
Work (v. i.) To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. -- Milton.
Work (v. i.) To ferment, as a liquid.
The working of beer when the barm is put in. -- Bacon.
Work (v. i.) To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. -- Grew.
To work at, To be engaged in or upon; to be employed in.
To work to windward (Naut.), To sail or ply against the wind; to tack to windward. -- Mar. Dict.
Work (v. t.) To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Work (v. t.) To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill. -- Harte.
Work (v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion. "Sidelong he works his way." -- Milton.
So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines. -- Addison.
Work (v. t.) To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead. "Work your royal father to his ruin." -- Philips.
Work (v. t.) To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Work (v. t.) To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.
Knowledge in building and working ships. -- Arbuthnot.
Now, Marcus, thy virtue's the proof; Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve. -- Addison.
The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do. -- Coleridge.
Work (v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor.
To work a passage (Naut.), To pay for a passage by doing work.
To work double tides (Naut.), To perform the labor of three days in two; -- a phrase which alludes to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day.
To work in, To insert, introduce, mingle, or interweave by labor or skill.
To work into, To force, urge, or insinuate into; as, to work one's self into favor or confidence.
To work off, To remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impurities in fermenting.
To work out. (a) To effect by labor and exertion. "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." -- Phil. ii. 12.
To work out. (b) To erase; to efface. [R.]
Tears of joy for your returning spilt, Work out and expiate our former guilt. -- Dryden.
To work out. (c) To solve, as a problem.
To work out. (d) To exhaust, as a mine, by working.
To work up. (a) To raise; to excite; to stir up; as, to work up the passions to rage.
The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks. -- Addison.
To work up. (b) To expend in any work, as materials; as, they have worked up all the stock.
To work up. (c) (Naut.) To make over or into something else, as yarns drawn from old rigging, made into spun yarn, foxes, sennit, and the like; also, to keep constantly at work upon needless matters, as a crew in order to punish them. -- R. H. Dana, Jr. work
Work (n.) Activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work".
Work (n.) A product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time" [syn: work, piece of work].
Work (n.) The occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work" [syn: employment, work].
Work (n.) Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design" [syn: study, work].
Work (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; "work equals force times distance".
Work (n.) A place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today" [syn: workplace, work].
Work (n.) The total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods" [syn: oeuvre, work, body of work].
Work (v.) Exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor" [ant: idle, laze, slug, stagnate].
Work (v.) Be employed; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college" [syn: work, do work].
Work (v.) Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water" [syn: work, act].
Work (v.) Perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: function, work, operate, go, run] [ant: malfunction, misfunction].
Work (v.) Shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal" [syn: work, work on, process].
Work (v.) Give a workout to; "Some parents exercise their infants"; "My personal trainer works me hard"; "work one's muscles"; "this puzzle will exercise your mind" [syn: exercise, work, work out].
Work (v.) Proceed along a path; "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest" [syn: make, work].
Work (v.) Operate in a certain place, area, or specialty; "She works the night clubs"; "The salesman works the Midwest"; "This artist works mostly in acrylics".
Work (v.) Proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity; "work your way through every problem or task"; "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived"; "Start from the bottom and work towards the top".
Work (v.) Move in an agitated manner; "His fingers worked with tension".
Work (v.) Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area" [syn: bring, work, play, wreak, make for].
Work (v.) Cause to work; "he is working his servants hard" [syn: work, put to work].
Work (v.) Prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" [syn: cultivate, crop, work].
Work (v.) Behave in a certain way when handled; "This dough does not work easily"; "The soft metal works well".
Work (v.) Have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate" [syn: influence, act upon, work].
Work (v.) Operate in or through; "Work the phones".
Work (v.) Cause to operate or function; "This pilot works the controls"; "Can you work an electric drill?"
Work (v.) Provoke or excite; "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy".
Work (v.) Gratify and charm, usually in order to influence; "the political candidate worked the crowds".
Work (v.) Make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" [syn: shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge].
Work (v.) Move into or onto; "work the raisins into the dough"; "the student worked a few jokes into his presentation"; "work the body onto the flatbed truck".
Work (v.) Make uniform; "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft" [syn: knead, work].
Work (v.) Use or manipulate to one's advantage; "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy" [syn: exploit, work].
Work (v.) Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" [syn: solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work].
Work (v.) Cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats" [syn: ferment, work].
Work (v.) Go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" [syn: sour, turn, ferment, work].
Work (v.) Arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times".
Workable (a.) Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
Workable (a.) Capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are [syn: feasible, executable, practicable, viable, workable].
Workaday (n.) See Workyday.
Workyday (n.) [See Workday, Workingday.] A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively. [Written also workiday, and workaday.] [Obs. or Colloq.] Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. -- Shak.
Workaday (a.) Found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday].
Workbag (n.) A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
Workbag (n.) Container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) [syn: workbasket, workbox, workbag].
Workbasket (n.) A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.
Workbasket (n.) Container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) [syn: workbasket, workbox, workbag].
Workbench (n.) A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
Workbench (n.) A strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic [syn: workbench, work bench, bench].
Workbox (n.) A box for holding instruments or materials for work.
Workbox (n.) Container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) [syn: workbasket, workbox, workbag].
Workday (n. & a.) A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
Workday (n.) A day on which work is done [syn: workday, working day, work day] [ant: day of rest, rest day].
Workday (n.) The amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage; "they work an 8-hour day" [syn: workday, working day].
Worker (n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. -- Shak.
Worker (n.) (Zool.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.
Worker (n.) A person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" [ant: nonworker].
Worker (n.) A member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!" [syn: proletarian, prole, worker].
Worker (n.) Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae.
Worker (n.) A person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" [syn: actor, doer, worker].
Workfellow (n.) One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
Workfellow (n.) An associate that one works with [syn: colleague, co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow].
Workflow (n.) Progress (or rate of progress) in work being done [syn: work flow, workflow].
Workflow, () The scheduling of independent jobs on a computer.
See also time-sharing, WFL.
Workflow, () The set of relationships between all the activities in a project, from start to finish. Activities are related by different types of trigger relation. Activities may be triggered by external events or by other activities.
Workflow, () The movement of documents around an organisation for purposes including sign-off, evaluation, performing activities in a process and co-writing.
[Stef Joosten et.al. "An empirical study about the practice of workflow management", WA-12 report, 1994].
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Workflow (n.) [ C or U ] 工作流程 The way that a particular type of work is organized, or the order of the stages in a particular work process.
// The right software tools can improve workflow and productivity.
Workfolk (n.) People that labor.
Workful (a.) Full of work; diligent. [R.]
Workhouses (n. pl. ) of Workhouse.
Workhouse (n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
Workhouse (n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
Workhouse (n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Working () a & n. from Work.
The word must cousin be to the working. -- Chaucer.
Working beam. See Beam, n. 10.
Working class, The class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Working day. See under Day, n.
Working drawing, A drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings.
Working house, A house where work is performed; a workhouse.
Working point (Mach.), That part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
Working (a.) Actively engaged in paid work; "the working population"; "the ratio of working men to unemployed"; "a working mother"; "robots can be on the job day and night" [syn: working(a), on the job(p)].
Working (a.) Adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something; "the party has a working majority in the House"; "a working knowledge of Spanish".
Working (a.) Adopted as a temporary basis for further work; "a working draft"; "a working hypothesis".
Working (a.) (Of e.g. a machine) Performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" [syn: running(a), operative, functional, working(a)].
Working (a.) Serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity; "discussed the working draft of a peace treaty"; "they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects".
Working (n.) A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked [syn: working, workings].
Working-day (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
O, how full of briers in this working-day world. -- Shak.
Workingmen (n. pl. ) of Workingman.
Workingman (n.) A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
Workleisure ( n.) [U] A fashionable style of clothing that is as comfortable as leisurewear but also formal enough for wearing to work.
// Simply put, workleisure is office-appropriate clothing that feels like your favorite yoga pants. Think comfortable and stylish. This game-changing wardrobe category is made of technical, durable materials. You can expect incredibly stretchy, low-maintenance fabrics cut into flattering work/ dinner/ happy hour-appropriate pieces.
Workless (a.) Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
Workless (a.) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith. [Obs.] -- Sir T. More.
Workmen (n. pl. ) of Workman.
Workman (n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
Workman (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
Workman (n.) An employee who performs manual or industrial labor [syn: workman, workingman, working man, working person].
Workman. () One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another.
Workman. () The obligations of a workman are to perform the work he has undertaken to do; to do it in proper time; to do it well to employ the things furnished him according to his contract.
Workman. () His rights, are to be paid what his work is worth, or what it deserves; to have all the facilities which the employer can give him for doing his work. 1 Bouv. Just. n. 1000 to 1006.
Workmanlike (a.) Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
Workmanlike (a.) Worthy of a good workman; "a competent job"; "the book is a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and index".
Workmanlike (a.) (Disapproving) 技藝平平的；一般水準的 Showing an acceptable level of skill but no great ability or style.
// I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor, whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.
Workmanlike (a.) (UK) (Approving) 技術純熟的；能工巧匠般的 Skilful.
// The Australian side turned in a very workmanlike performance.
Workmanly (a.) Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
Workmanly (adv.) In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman. -- Shak.
Workmanship (n.) The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.
Due reward
For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. -- Spenser.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. -- Milton.
Workmanship (n.) That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor.
Not any skilled in workmanship embossed. -- Spenser.
By how much Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by being the immediate workmanship of God. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Workmanship (n.) Skill in an occupation or trade [syn: craft, craftsmanship, workmanship].
Workmaster (n.) The performer of any work; a master workman. [R.] -- Spenser.
Workroom (n.) Any room or apartment used especially for labor.
Workroom (n.) Room where work is done.
Workship (n.) Workmanship. [R.]
Workshop (n.) A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
Workshop (n.) Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done [syn: workshop, shop].
Workshop (n.) A brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving.
Worktable (n.) A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc. Workways
Worktable (n.) A table designed for a particular task [syn: worktable, work table].
Workwomen (n. pl. ) of Workwoman.
Workwoman (n.) A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.
Workyday (n.) A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively. [Written also workiday, and workaday.] [Obs. or Colloq.]
Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. -- Shak.
World (n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. -- Rom. 1. 20.
With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began. -- Milton.
World (n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. "Lord of the worlds above." -- I. Watts.
Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds. -- Milton.
There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their almighty Sovereign. -- W. B. Sprague.
World (n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.
That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe. -- Milton.
World (n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.
One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety. -- Shak.
Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end -- for so they counted Britain. -- Milton.
World (n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
Happy is she that from the world retires. -- Waller.
If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May Juba ever live in ignorance. -- Addison.
World (n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.
World (n.) The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.
Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it. -- Shak.
Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey? -- Shak.
World (n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.
I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. -- John xvii. 9.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. -- 1 John ii. 15, 16.
World (n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number. "A world of men." -- Chapman. "A world of blossoms for the bee." -- Bryant.
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. -- Shak.
A world of woes dispatched in little space. -- Dryden.
All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not save him.
A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or surprising to see. [Obs.]
O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. -- Shak.
For all the world. (a) Precisely; exactly.
For all the world. (b) For any consideration.
Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] "Thus goes every one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho for a husband!" -- Shak.
World's end, The end, or most distant part, of the world; the remotest regions.
World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if in a state of existence having no end.
Throughout all ages, world without end. -- Eph. iii. 21.
World (a.) Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance" [syn: global, planetary, world(a), worldwide, world-wide].
World (n.) Everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" [syn:
universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm].
World (n.) People in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world" [syn: world, domain].
World (n.) All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were" [syn: world, reality].
World (n.) The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world" [syn: Earth, earth, world, globe].
World (n.) People in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public" [syn: populace, public, world].
World (n.) A part of the earth that can be considered separately; "the outdoor world"; "the world of insects".
World (n.) The concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent of the world" [syn: worldly concern, earthly concern, world, earth].
World (n.) All of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man].
Worldliness (n.) The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
Worldliness (n.) The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment [syn: sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity] [ant: naiveness, naivete, naivety].
Worldliness (n.) Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs; "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him" [ant: otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality].
Worldling () A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.
A foutre for the world and worldlings base. -- Shak.
If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. -- Rogers.
And worldlings blot the temple's gold. -- Keble.
Worldling (n.) A person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world.
Worldling (n.) An inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling, earthman, worldling].
Worldly (a.) Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. -- Hooker.
Worldly (a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
With his soul fled all my worldly solace. -- Shak.
Worldly (a.) Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Worldly (adv.) With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. -- Milton.
Worldly (a.) Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church" [syn: worldly, secular, temporal] [ant: unworldly].
Worldly (a.) Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom" [syn: blase, worldly].
Worldly-minded (a.) Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. --
World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
Worldly-minde (a.) Marked by materialism [syn: materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded].
World-wide (a.) Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. -- Tennyson.
Worldly-wise (a.) Wise in regard to things of this world. -- Bunyan.
Worm (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. [Archaic]
There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer. -- Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4).
'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. -- Shak.
When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. -- Longfellow.
Worm (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm. Specifically: (Zool.)
Worm (n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
Worm (n.) Any annelid.
Worm (n.) An insect larva.