Wordcyclopedia | English | It's hard work.

it's Contraction

— The contraction of "it is". Bring you coat. It's raining. "Where's the book?" "It's on the teacher's desk." "What's that?" "This? It's just a piece of paper." — The contraction of "it has". It's been a long time since I've had cake.

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hard Adjective

— If something is hard, it is not soft. I kicked the wall and hurt my foot. The wall is hard. — If something is hard, it takes a lot of work to do or understand. Only two people passed the test because it was so hard. — If something is hard, it is sudden and sharp. He took a hard hit to his arm. — If a drink is hard, it is strong. Hard liquor — If something is hard, it cannot be questioned; it is not questionable. Hard evidence — If someone is hard, they are severe; they are unfriendly.

hard Adverb

— If something is done hard, it is done with a lot of effort. He works hard, all day and all night.

hard Noun

— A hard is a beach or slope that is firm that is a good place to take a boat out of the water.

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work Verb

— If you work, you do a job, usually for money. My father works at Microsoft. I got to work at 7:30 each morning. — If you work you are doing something that needs effort. I worked on my school paper all night long. — If somethings works it has done what it was supposed to do. If my computer didn't work I couldn't type this. I'm glad our plan worked. — How something works is how it does what it does. I would like to know more about how cars work. The rules here just do not work that way.

work Noun

— Your work is your job. — Work is effort it takes to do something. That is, its what makes you tired when you do something hard. Moving heavy logs takes a lot of work. — Work is force through a distance (force times distance). This is how much energy you used to move something. — A work is the product of something, the result of working on it. That is, its something someone has made. The painting was a great work of art. Shakespeare wrote many literary works.

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