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English noun: works | |||
| 1. | works (artifact) buildings for carrying on industrial labor | ||
| Samples | They built a large plant to manufacture automobiles. | ||
| Synonyms | industrial plant, plant | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | building complex, complex | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bottling plant, brewery, disposal plant, distillery, factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill, mint, packing plant, packinghouse, recycling plant, refinery, saltworks, sewage disposal plant, smelter, smeltery, still | ||
| Domain category members | gas system | ||
| 2. | works (state) everything available; usually preceded by `the' | ||
| Samples | We saw the whole shebang. A hotdog with the works. We took on the whole caboodle. For $10 you get the full treatment. | ||
| Synonyms | full treatment, kit and boodle, kit and caboodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, whole works | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | entireness, entirety, integrality, totality | ||
| 3. | works (act) performance of moral or religious acts | ||
| Samples | Salvation by deeds. The reward for good works. | ||
| Synonyms | deeds | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | activity | ||
| Domain usage | plural, plural form | ||
| 4. | works (artifact) the internal mechanism of a device | ||
| Synonyms | workings | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mechanism | ||
| Domain usage | plural, plural form | ||
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