works

(heading) Employment.

(heading) Effort.

Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.

“We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.”

(heading) Product; the result of effort.

The staging of events to appear as real.

Ore before it is dressed.

The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

“Tell me you're using clean works at least.”

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

“He’s working in a bar.”

To effect by gradual degrees.

“he worked his way through the crowd”

To embroider with thread.

To set into action.

“He worked the levers.”

To cause to ferment.

To ferment.

To exhaust, by working.

“The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.”

To shape, form, or improve a material.

“He used pliers to work the wire into shape.”

To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

“she works the night clubs”

To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.

To provoke or excite; to influence.

“The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.”

To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

“She knows how to work the system.”

To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

“I cannot work a miracle.”

To cause to work.

“He is working his servants hard.”

To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

“he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work”

To influence.

“They worked on her to join the group.”

To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.

To move in an agitated manner.

“A ship works in a heavy sea.”

To behave in a certain way when handled

“this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well”

(with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

To hurt; to ache.

A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.

“A stray wrench can really gum up the works.”

A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.

“The steel works almost fills the valley.”

(with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.

“I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.”

(with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).