Work

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Work action which serves some meaningful accomplishment—typically it means building something or doing something useful; in common English it is equivalent to human employment.

In science, it has a formal definition disconnected from the idea of human labor.

Human labour

• Creative work, a manifestation of creative effort, in copyright law
• House work, management of a home
• Manual work, physical work done by people
• Schoolwork, work assigned by a teacher, school, or other educational institution
• Wage labour, relationship in which a worker sells labor and an employer buys it
• Work (project management), the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task

Science

• Work A physcs concept under the topic mechanics
• Thermodynamics which describes heat flow, and the work it can do

People

• Milton Work (1864–1934), an American authority on bridge and whist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Physics

• Work (electrical), the energy transferred by a force from an electric field acting on a charge through a distance
• Work (physics), the energy transferred by a force acting through a distance
• Work (thermodynamics), the energy transferred from one system to another by macroscopic forces measurable in the surroundings

Religion

• Work (Christian theology), the concept of a person's actions or deeds, in contrast to inner qualities
• Karma, "work" or "deed" in Sanskrit; the principle of causality where actions influence the future in some Asian religions

See also

• Career, an individual's learning, work and other aspects of life
• Employment, a relationship between two parties where work is paid for
• Job, a regular activity performed in exchange for payment
• Labour (disambiguation)
• The Works (disambiguation)
• Work of art (disambiguation)
• Work Work (disambiguation)
• Working (disambiguation)
• Works (disambiguation)
• All pages with a title containing Work
• All pages beginning with Work