What's the difference between behave and work?

Behave


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
  • (v. t.) To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
  • (2) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (3) It behaves as an acidic protein, pI 4.5--5.0, which is thermolabile and sulphydryl-sensitive.
  • (4) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
  • (5) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
  • (6) The analyzed tRNA gene behaved like a single transcription unit driven by its own promoter.
  • (7) These results favour the idea that the factor present in peak II fraction might behave as an ouabain-like substance.
  • (8) Proud of the way his forces behaved, he plans to frame the operational map of the night for his office wall.
  • (9) The pharmacological examination showed that the new compounds are deprived of the hypnotic activity characteristic for 3,3'-spirobi-5-methyltetrahydrofuranone-2 (2) and behaved in most tests as tranquillizers.
  • (10) I wanted to investigate how people behave together."
  • (11) The reference material, which must behave immunochemically the same as the patient's sample in all methods, is then used to assign a target value to the calibrator in each method and system.
  • (12) The relative permittivity and conductivity of rabbit eye lens were measured in the frequency domain between 2 and 18 GHz at temperatures of 37 and 20 degrees C. An analysis of the data suggested that a significant proportion of the bulk water in nuclear and cortical lens tissue may behave differently to pure water.
  • (13) Hypersensitivity was observed up to 7 min after the injection, after which the mice behaved normally.
  • (14) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
  • (15) Population studies of continuously cultured primary amnion cells from appropriate donors and of HeLa cells have established that the H- cell behaves as a stem cell which commonly divides into a like cell and a differentiated H+ type.
  • (16) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
  • (17) Systemically administered CPP blocked AGS and significantly reduced IC neuronal firing in the behaving GEPR, suggesting an important action of systemically administered NMDA receptor antagonists on brainstem auditory nuclei critical to AGS.
  • (18) This polypeptide behaved identically to skeletal muscle actin on DNaseI affinity columns.
  • (19) Under these assumptions, any time-invariant variable may behave like a metabolite concentration, i.e.
  • (20) Should Britain start behaving like the small island state it is rather than maintaining the pretensions of being a significant world player?

Work


Definition:

  • (n.) Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
  • (n.) Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Ore before it is dressed.
  • (n.) Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
  • (n.) Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
  • (n.) To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To ferment, as a liquid.
  • (n.) To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
  • (v. t.) To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
  • (v. t.) To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.
  • (v. t.) To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (3) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
  • (4) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (5) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
  • (6) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (7) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (8) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (9) Work on humoral responses has focused on lysozyme, the hemagglutinins (especially in the oyster), and the clearance of certain antigens.
  • (10) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (11) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (12) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
  • (13) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
  • (14) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (15) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
  • (16) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
  • (17) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
  • (18) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (19) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
  • (20) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.