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1 work
[wə:k] 1. noun1) (effort made in order to achieve or make something: He has done a lot of work on this project) vinna2) (employment: I cannot find work in this town.) vinna, starf3) (a task or tasks; the thing that one is working on: Please clear your work off the table.) verkefni4) (a painting, book, piece of music etc: the works of Van Gogh / Shakespeare/Mozart; This work was composed in 1816.) verk5) (the product or result of a person's labours: His work has shown a great improvement lately.) vinna6) (one's place of employment: He left (his) work at 5.30 p.m.; I don't think I'll go to work tomorrow.) vinnustaður2. verb1) (to (cause to) make efforts in order to achieve or make something: She works at the factory three days a week; He works his employees very hard; I've been working on/at a new project.) vinna, starfa; láta (e-n) vinna2) (to be employed: Are you working just now?) hafa starf/vinnu3) (to (cause to) operate (in the correct way): He has no idea how that machine works / how to work that machine; That machine doesn't/won't work, but this one's working.) vera í lagi, virka4) (to be practicable and/or successful: If my scheme works, we'll be rich!) gefast vel, heppnast5) (to make (one's way) slowly and carefully with effort or difficulty: She worked her way up the rock face.) mjaka(st)6) (to get into, or put into, a stated condition or position, slowly and gradually: The wheel worked loose.) losa/losna smám saman7) (to make by craftsmanship: The ornaments had been worked in gold.) vinna, móta•- - work- workable
- worker
- works 3. noun plural1) (the mechanism (of a watch, clock etc): The works are all rusted.) gangverk2) (deeds, actions etc: She's devoted her life to good works.) góðverk•- work-box
- workbook
- workforce
- working class
- working day
- work-day
- working hours
- working-party
- work-party
- working week
- workman
- workmanlike
- workmanship
- workmate
- workout
- workshop
- at work
- get/set to work
- go to work on
- have one's work cut out
- in working order
- out of work
- work of art
- work off
- work out
- work up
- work up to
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2 work up
1) (to excite or rouse gradually: She worked herself up into a fury. ( adjective worked-up: Don't get so worked-up!).) æsa (sig) upp (í)2) (to raise or create: I just can't work up any energy/appetite/enthusiasm today.) ná upp, skapa -
3 work up to
(to progress towards and prepare for: Work up to the difficult exercises gradually.) vinna sig upp í -
4 -work
1) ((the art of making) goods of a particular material: He learns woodwork at school; This shop sells basketwork.) -smíði, -vinna2) (parts of something, eg a building, made of a particular material: The stonework/woodwork/paintwork needs to be renewed.) tréverk; steinverk; málning -
5 work out
1) (to solve or calculate correctly: I can't work out how many should be left.) leysa, reikna2) (to come to a satisfactory end: Don't worry - it will all work out (in the end).) leysast3) (to perform physical exercises.) æfa sig, gera líkamsæfingar -
6 work-day
1) (a day on which one goes to work, and is not on holiday.) virkur dagur, vinnudagur2) (the period of actual labour in a normal day at work: My working day is eight hours long.) vinnudagur -
7 work-party
nouns (a group of people gathered together (usually voluntarily) to perform a particular physical task: They organized a work-party to clear the canal of weeds.) vinnuflokkur -
8 work of art
(a painting, sculpture etc.) listaverk -
9 work off
(to get rid of (something unwanted or unpleasant) by taking physical exercise etc: He worked off his anger by running round the garden six times.) losa sig við -
10 work wonders
(to produce marvellous results: These pills have worked wonders on my rheumatism.) ná undraverðum árangri -
11 work-basket
(etc nouns a basket, box etc for holding thread, needlework etc.) saumakarfa/-kassi -
12 work-box
(etc nouns a basket, box etc for holding thread, needlework etc.) saumakarfa/-kassi -
13 social work
work which deals with the care of people in a community, especially of the poor, under-privileged etc (noun social worker) félagsráðgjöf -
14 get/set to work
(to start work: Could you get to work painting that ceiling?; I'll have to set to work on this mending this evening.) koma sér að vinnu -
15 donkey-work
noun (hard, uninteresting work: We have a computer now, which saves us a lot of donkey-work.) leiðindavinna, puð -
16 go to work on
(to begin work on: We're thinking of going to work on an extension to the house.) hefjast handa við -
17 at work
(working: He's writing a novel and he likes to be at work (on it) by eight o'clock every morning.) við vinnu -
18 have one's work cut out
(to be faced with a difficult task: You'll have your work cut out to beat the champion.) eiga erfitt verkefni framundan -
19 make short work of
(to dispose of very quickly: The children made short work of the ice-cream.) klára í hvelli -
20 out of work
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