worked Význam & definícia

Význam worked v slovenčine

• 0 past simple and past participle of work

• 1 to be effective or successful:

  • Her idea for reorganizing the department will never work in practice.

  • The tablets will start to work in a few minutes.

  • Some people think I'm weird doing meditation, but it works for me and that's all that matters.

  • Arguably, the monarchy worked well for many centuries.

• 2 to do a job, especially the job you do to earn money:

  • Where do you work?

  • He works at the hospital.

  • She worked as a cleaner at the hospital.

  • Mike works for a computer company.

  • I work in management training.

  • Have you any experience of working with children who have learning difficulties?

  • It's not unusual for a junior doctor to work a 70 or sometimes an 80-hour week.

  • The instructors worked us very hard on the survival course.

  • Many of the animals were worked to death.

• 3 If a machine or device works, it operates, especially correctly and without failure, and if you work it, you make it operate:

  • Our phone isn't working.

  • You need a team of about twelve people to work a furnace this size.

  • The pump works off/on (= uses) wind power.

  • The pump is worked by (= uses to operate) wind power.

  • I can't get the radio to work.

• 4 to succeed gradually in becoming something or cause a person or thing to become something, either by making an effort or by making many small movements:

  • He started as a technician and worked his way up through the company to become managing director.

  • Eventually she worked her way through (= read) the huge amount of technical papers.

  • Vibration tends to make nuts and screws work themselves loose.

  • The screws had worked loose over time.

• 5 to arrange for something to happen, especially by not using official methods and/or by being clever:

  • I don't know how she worked it, but she retired at 50.

  • Can we work things (out) so that there's always someone here to answer the phone during office hours?

• 6 to shape, change, or process a substance:

  • Working iron requires higher temperatures than bronze.

  • Gently work the butter into the flour until there are no lumps left.