What's the difference between wore and work?

Wore


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Wear
  • () imp. of Wear.
  • () imp. of Ware.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Hence, Ruud Geels, a striker, had a squad number of one while the goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed wore No8.
  • (2) Six individuals wore the appliances while rinsing daily with a neutral 0.2% NaF solution for 4 wk.
  • (3) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
  • (4) The uteri of ten patients who wore a copper-T for several months up to two years were examined immediately following hysterectomy by conventional microscopic techniques, fluorescent optical techniques after Acridin-Orange-Fluorochromization and by histo-chemical techniques for copper.
  • (5) So Mick Jagger still wears clothes that he wore when he was 20 – quite possibly the exact same clothes – and the man looks great, because that's who he is.
  • (6) None of the patients experienced skin irritation under the prosthesis and 94% of them wore their prosthesis daily.
  • (7) One couple made the point graphically: she wore a red-stained wedding dress and her partner wore a sign that read, “I am the rapist”.
  • (8) Interinstrument variation during treadmill experiments while subjects wore two accelerometers at the same time was on average 22% and was not improved after adjustment for differences found in the bench test.
  • (9) May, who once wore a T-shirt bearing the slogan "This is what a feminist looks like" has campaigned against sexual violence and worked hard on getting more Tory women MPs, is far more likely to ask questions about how a policy will impact on women than her male colleagues.
  • (10) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
  • (11) The Jazz played defense, but Bryant’s persistence wore them down.
  • (12) I like American names and I always wanted to live in the US.” David Miliband: Trump refugee ban threatens west's global reputation Read more On their necks, Nimr and his wife wore necklaces with little metal crosses.
  • (13) Mandela then returned to Liliesleaf farm, the secret base of the ANC's military wing in Rivonia, Johannesburg, where he wore blue overalls to pose as a caretaker under the alias David Motsamayi.
  • (14) Defensive players who wore prophylactic knee braces had statistically fewer knee injuries than players who served as controls.
  • (15) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
  • (16) The patients, who ranged in age from 9 to 14 years, accepted the appliance readily and wore it 24 hours each day, even while eating.
  • (17) All subjects wore markers over their mandibles, hips, and knees and were filmed three times with the weighted belt worn on a randomly selected trial.
  • (18) Topographical corneal thickness changes were monitored in 10 subjects who each wore a hydrogel contact lens with a large central aperture ("donut" lens) for 6 hours.
  • (19) Fifty-nine patients wore extended-wear contact lenses for cosmetic purposes.
  • (20) The refractive error was not stable in some eyes; between 6 months and 4 years after surgery, 23% of eyes had a continued effect of the surgery of more than 1.00 D. For 323 patients with both eyes operated on, 64% stated they wore no optical correction.

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.

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