Works

Worksname

• 1

  A surname.

worksnoun/wɜːks/

• 1

  A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial facilities.

  • The steel works almost fills the valley.
  • In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.

worksnoun/wɜːks/

• 1

  A mechanism or machinery; the means by which something happens.

  • Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.
  • Something clicked in his throat, as if he had works in him like a clock, and was going to strike.
• 2

  Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.

  • I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.
  • My my they wanted the works, can you this and that / I never got a letter back
• 3

  Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).

  • Why did Constantinople get the works?
  • "Why don't we pull him in on tax evasion or misuse of the mails or parkin' in front of a hydrant or sumpn? Take him down to the Tombs and give 'em the works? If the Feds won't do it, we'd be glad to oblige."
• 4

  slangA heroin or other drug addict's equipment: syringes, needles, etc.

  • While in San Francisco, where the AIDS crisis was particularly devastating, they saw numerous public awareness signs reading “Bleach Your Works” posted around the city, urging IV drug users to clean their needles with bleach to help staunch the spread of the disease.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Work
• work in its countable senses