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work on

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. work at, work onverb

    to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something

    "the child worked at the multiplication table until she had it down cold"

  2. work, work on, processverb

    shape, form, or improve a material

    "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"

Wiktionary

  1. work onverb

    to shape, form or improve something

  2. work onverb

    to exercise influence on someone

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  1. work on

    To "work on" generally means to spend time, effort, or energy in order to improve, build, or transform something. This could relate to a range of activities, including tasks, projects, relationships, skills, or personal attributes. The nature of what is being worked on can vary widely, from physical tasks to psychological growth.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of work on in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of work on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of work on in a Sentence

  1. Tristain Shury:

    In a period of attention seekers, stay humble. No need to level up, keep a level head. Stay focus and work on making yourself better. Go at your pace and ignore the distractions, your only competition is you.

  2. Manuel Valls:

    The work on these attacks, on these terrorist and barbaric acts continues ... because we consider that there are most probably some possible accomplices.

  3. Vladimir Putin:

    He would have been just annihilated... We got ready to get him out of Donetsk by land, by sea and by air, this was on the night of Feb. 22 through to Feb. 23. We finished around 7 in the morning. And, while saying goodbye, I told all the colleagues: 'We have to start the work on Crimea's return into Russia'.

  4. Sepp Blatter:

    I don't like to impose diktats or obligations but sometimes we need to have targets, and we need to work on having more women on the FIFA Council. It is a minimum of six, it must be more and they must be all on other committees.

  5. Carl Lipo:

    The issue of water availability (or the lack of it) has often been mentioned by researchers who work on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, when we started to examine the details of the hydrology, we began to notice that freshwater access and statue location were tightly linked together. It wasnt obvious when walking around--with the water emerging at the coast during low tide, one doesnt necessarily see obvious indications of water. File photo - Statues at Anakena Beach, Easter Island, Chile. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Places without ahu/moai showed no freshwater, he added. The pattern was striking and surprising in how consistent it was. Researchers had already identified groundwater discharge in coastal areas as a key factor in the statues placement on Easter Islands coast. In the latest stage of the research, experts examined how the availability of freshwater in certain areas was linked to the methods and means of building the statues. EASTER ISLANDS ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS NOT DESTROYED BY WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY Around 900 statues, or moai, are dotted around Easter Island. Circa 1955: Two ancient statues of uncertain origin on Easter Island, in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images).


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  • ทำงานต่อThai

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