📖 W — The English dictionary · page 29

woolen — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Made of wool.↗ Example: And when the plague of leprosy is in a garment, whether it be a woolen garment, or a linen garment; (Torah LEV.13.47, JPS 1917)↗

woollen — Everyday, meaning 1: Woollen means made of wool: a woollen jumper, woollen socks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Woollens» are clothes made of wool, such as jumpers and scarves.↗ Example: Gran knitted me a woollen hat.↗ · Woollen socks keep my feet warm.↗ · Wash your woollens in cool water, or they shrink.↗ · The shepherd's woollen coat was made from his own sheep's wool.↗ · A woollen blanket is cosy in winter.↗ · Some people find woollen clothes itchy.↗ · Student Holberg wrapped himself up in his woollen cloak, and wanted to go to the town.↗

woolly — Everyday, meaning 1: Woolly means made of wool, or soft, thick and warm like wool: a woolly hat, woolly socks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A woolly animal has thick soft hair like wool: a woolly sheep, a woolly mammoth.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Woolly ideas or thinking are not clear or exact; they are vague and muddled.↗ Example: I wore my woolly hat and mittens to the snowy park.↗ · Grandma knitted me woolly socks.↗ · The woolly mammoth lived during the Ice Age.↗ · The lamb had a soft, woolly coat.↗ · Put on your woollies; it's freezing outside.↗ · Your answer is a bit woolly — give an exact number.↗ · The caterpillar looked fuzzy and woolly.↗ · The sheep looked very woolly before shearing.↗ · It looked like soft little woolly clouds!↗

worcestershire — Everyday, meaning 1: Worcestershire is a county in the West Midlands of England; its main city is Worcester.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Worcestershire sauce is a dark, tangy, spicy sauce first made in Worcester, used on food and in cooking.↗ Example: Worcestershire is a county in the middle of England.↗ · Dad shakes Worcestershire sauce onto his cheese on toast.↗ · My cousins live in a village in Worcestershire.↗ · The River Severn flows through Worcestershire.↗ · Worcestershire sauce was first made in Worcester in the 1830s.↗ · Nobody in our class could spell Worcestershire!↗

word — Everyday, meaning 1: A word is a unit of language with a meaning, like «apple» or «run».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A word can be a short talk or news: «Can I have a word?».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Your word is a promise: «I give you my word».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: new sense.↗ Example: Look at the word «lost»: it tells us to subtract.↗ · The word «each» tells us the groups are equal.↗ · Read every word of the problem.↗ · «Cat» is a word with three letters.↗ · Look up a new word in the dictionary.↗ · She kept her word and came to my party.↗ · In other words, we need to hurry.↗ · Can I have a word with you after class?↗ · And God spoke all these words, saying: (Torah EXO.20.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.↗ (Torah GEN.34.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.↗ (Torah GEN.49.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Was it not but a word?'↗ (Prophets 1SA.17.29, JPS 1917)↗ · How forcible are words of uprightness!↗ (Writings JOB.6.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall windy words have an end?↗ (Writings JOB.16.3, JPS 1917)↗

wordplay — Everyday, meaning 1: Wordplay is a clever or funny use of words, such as puns, rhymes or words with two meanings.↗ Example: The joke «Why was six afraid of seven?↗ Because seven eight nine» uses wordplay.↗ · Roald Dahl loved wordplay and invented new words.↗ · The riddle depended on wordplay.↗ · Crossword clues often use wordplay.↗ · Our class wrote poems full of wordplay.↗ · The comedian's wordplay made everyone groan and laugh.↗

work — Everyday, meaning 1: To work means to do a job, often to earn money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To work means to try hard to do or learn something: «work on your spelling».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Work is the place where you have a job: «Dad is at work».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A machine works when it does its job and is not broken.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A plan works when it is a success.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A work is something made, like a work of art.↗ Example: She works 8 hours a day.↗ · He earns 12 dollars for each hour of work.↗ · How much does he earn for 5 days of work?↗ · They worked for 3 hours.↗ · Mum goes to work by train.↗ · Can you work out the answer in your head?↗ · The TV doesn't work anymore.↗ · Good teamwork helped us finish the model.↗ · Show your work so the teacher can follow your steps.↗ · We must get to work swiftly.”↗ · Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; (Torah EXO.20.9, JPS 1917)↗ · to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, (Torah EXO.31.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And they made upon the breastplate plaited chains, of wreathen work of pure gold.↗ (Torah EXO.39.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.↗ (Writings 2CH.32.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Wilt Thou work wonders for the dead?↗ (Writings PSA.88.11, JPS 1917)↗ · How great are Thy works, O LORD!↗ (Writings PSA.92.6, JPS 1917)↗

worker — Everyday, meaning 1: A worker is a person who does a job, often to make or build something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A worker is someone who works in a certain way: «a hard worker», «a fast worker».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Worker bees and worker ants are those that do the jobs of the hive or nest.↗ Example: 4 workers build a wall in 6 days.↗ · Each worker earns 50 dollars a day.↗ · 3 workers paint 12 rooms.↗ · How many workers are needed?↗ · Worker bees collect nectar from flowers.↗ · She is a hard worker in class.↗ · Road workers fixed the hole in the street.↗ · Health workers helped many people get better.↗ · No one will ever make a worker out of me.”↗ · Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?↗ (Writings PSA.94.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?↗ (Writings JOB.31.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.↗ (Writings JOB.34.8, JPS 1917)↗

workforce — Everyday, meaning 1: A workforce is all the people who work for a company, factory or organisation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The workforce of a country is all the people who are able to work there.↗ Example: The factory has a workforce of 300 people.↗ · Half of the workforce works at night.↗ · A workforce of 240 split into 8 equal teams gives 30 workers per team.↗ · The company is training its workforce to use new machines.↗ · Women make up a large part of the workforce.↗ · The hospital's workforce includes doctors, nurses and cleaners.↗

working — Everyday, meaning 1: Working means doing a job, or doing its job right.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A working machine is one that is not broken.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The working, or working out, of a maths problem is the steps written down.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Working people have jobs; working hours are the hours of a job.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A working model really moves or runs.↗ Example: 5 people are working on the house.↗ · Only 8 of the 10 lamps are working.↗ · After working 4 hours she stopped.↗ · The working shows each step.↗ · Show your working, not just the answer.↗ · Our science group built a working volcano.↗ · The lift is not working, so use the stairs.↗ · She is very hard-working and always finishes her tasks.↗ · "I wonder you'd be working on the holiday!" said Tom.↗ · Each working after its own way, physically and spiritually.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · walking, seeing, hearing, working, coition, smelling, sleep, anger, swallowing and laughing.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.↗ (Writings PSA.52.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.↗ (Writings PSA.74.12, JPS 1917)↗

workload — Everyday, meaning 1: A workload is the amount of work a person or group has to do in a certain time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computing) A workload is the amount of work a computer or machine has to do.↗ Example: Our homework workload is much bigger this year.↗ · Teachers have a heavy workload at report time.↗ · We shared the workload so the project was fair.↗ · Mum's workload doubled when her colleague left.↗ · The new computer can handle a bigger workload.↗ · A heavy workload can make people tired and stressed.↗

workman — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who does a job with his hands, such as a builder, a mender or a maker of things.↗ Example: The workman mended the roof before lunch.↗ · The workmen built a new bridge over the river.↗ · The workman was proud of his finished chair.↗ · And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful workman.↗ (Torah EXO.28.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with the cherubim the work of the skilful workman made he it.↗ (Torah EXO.36.35, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made.↗ (Torah EXO.26.31, JPS 1917)↗ · The roundings of thy thighs are like the links of a chain, the work of the hands of a skilled workman.↗ (Writings SNG.7.2, JPS 1917)↗ · For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.↗ (Prophets JER.10.3, JPS 1917)↗

workmanship — Everyday, meaning 1: The skill and care shown in making something; the quality of the work.↗ Example: The table has fine workmanship.↗ · The chair showed careful workmanship in every joint.↗ · The silver cup was a piece of excellent workmanship.↗ · and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.↗ (Torah EXO.31.5, JPS 1917)↗ · and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship.↗ (Torah EXO.35.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And He hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.↗ (Torah EXO.35.31, JPS 1917)↗

workmate — Everyday, meaning 1: A person you work with in the same job or place.↗ Example: Mum is going out for lunch with her workmates.↗ · Dad's workmate gave him a lift home.↗ · The workmates bought a cake for her birthday.↗ · He gets on well with all his workmates.↗ · A good workmate helps when you are busy.↗ · My aunt's workmates sent flowers when she was ill.↗

workplace — Everyday, meaning 1: A place where people go to do their job, such as an office, a factory, a shop or a school.↗ Example: Dad's workplace is a big hospital.↗ · Every workplace must have a fire exit.↗ · Workplace safety signs are often yellow or red.↗ · Our school is a workplace for the teachers and cleaners.↗ · The workplace has a quiet room for lunch breaks.↗ · Bullying is not allowed in the workplace.↗

worksheet — Everyday, meaning 1: A worksheet is a sheet of paper with questions, exercises or tasks that a pupil fills in.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a computer spreadsheet program, a worksheet is one page of rows and columns.↗ Example: The teacher gave us a worksheet on fractions.↗ · Please write your name at the top of the worksheet.↗ · I finished my spelling worksheet before lunch.↗ · The worksheet had ten sums and a word problem.↗ · Mum helped me with my homework worksheet.↗ · Hand in your worksheets at the end of the lesson.↗ · In the spreadsheet, click the second worksheet to see the prices.↗ · If each worksheet has 8 questions, 3 worksheets have 24 questions.↗

workshop — Everyday, meaning 1: A workshop is a room or building where people make or fix things, often with tools.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A workshop is also a meeting or class where people learn by doing something together, like a writing workshop.↗ Example: The workshop makes 40 chairs a week.↗ · 6 people work in the workshop.↗ · Each worker makes 5 toys a day.↗ · How many tables in 3 weeks?↗ · Grandad builds birdhouses in his workshop.↗ · Santa's elves make toys in the workshop.↗ · We went to a science workshop at the museum.↗ · The bike was fixed at the workshop.↗ · The goldsmith was in his workshop making a gold chain, when he heard the song of the bird on his roof.↗