bag vs work

bag

verb
  • To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To laugh uncontrollably. 

  • To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest. 

  • To steal. 

  • To put into a bag. 

  • To fit with a bag to collect urine. 

  • To hang like an empty bag. 

  • To drop away from the correct course. 

  • To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. 

  • To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator. 

  • To criticise sarcastically. 

  • To forget, ignore, or get rid of. 

  • To furnish or load with a bag. 

noun
  • A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath. 

  • One's preference. 

  • A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags. 

  • A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods. 

  • The scrotum. 

  • A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated. 

  • £1000, a grand. 

  • A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance. 

  • An ugly woman. 

  • A fellow gay man. 

  • The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base. 

  • A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics. 

  • A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc. 

  • A large number or amount. 

  • First, second, or third base. 

  • A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig. 

  • A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds. 

  • The quantity of game bagged in a hunt. 

work

verb
  • To use or manipulate to one’s advantage. 

  • To embroider with thread. 

  • To cause to ferment. 

  • To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for. 

  • To shape, form, or improve a material. 

  • Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients. 

  • To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence. 

  • To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage. 

  • Followed by as. Said of one's job title 

  • To behave in a certain way when handled 

  • To exhaust, by working. 

  • Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business). 

  • To ferment. 

  • To set into action. 

  • Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs. 

  • To provoke or excite; to influence. 

  • To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality. 

  • To cause to work. 

  • To effect by gradual degrees; 

  • To influence. 

  • To move in an agitated manner. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad). 

  • To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. 

  • To effect by gradual degrees. 

  • To operate in or through; as, to work the phones. 

noun
  • The staging of events to appear as real. 

  • The result of a particular manner of production. 

  • Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result. 

  • The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.) 

  • Ore before it is dressed. 

  • A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move. 

  • Something produced using the specified material or tool. 

  • One's employer. 

  • Something on which effort is expended. 

  • effort expended on a particular task. 

  • The place where one is employed. 

  • A fortification. 

  • A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process. 

  • A literary, artistic, or intellectual production. 

  • labour, occupation, job. 

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