WORK----CIVICS FORM ONE.
INTRODUCTION.
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The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: work. |
- When used in a sentence as an action, work means doing something that requires labor
- When used in a sentence as an object, work means something that remains to be done.
- A worker is any person that does work, often in exchange for money or helpful services (these workers that receive money or helpful services are said to be "holding a job")
- In science, mechanical Work is done when a force is applied to an object and a resulting movement takes place against some resistance to the movement. An equation for the total amount of work produced from a force is Work = force x distance. As a result of the work the object will have gained energy, either as heat, a change in its velocity or a change in its position in space. If something can do a lot of work in a short time it is said to be powerful. Doing the same amount of work over a longer time will transfer the same amount of energy but will require less power.
- The phrase "work ethic" is used to explain how hard a person works, and what his or her attitude towards work is
- A piece of art (or pieces of art) may be referred to as a "work": a work from the studio of Rodin, for example, or the works of the Romantic poets
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WORK.
INTRODUCTION.
Work may refer to:Look up work in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Human labour
- Manual labour, physical work done by people
- Wage labour, in which a worker sells labor and an employer buys it
- Work (project management), the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task
- Employment, a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee
- Labour economics, measure of the work done by human beings
- House work
- Jobs
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