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look
Verb
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Someone looks at something when they move their head or move their eyes so that they can see the thing.
Look at this picture! Isn't it beautiful?
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The way that something looks is the way that it appears.
A new car looks very nice until it gets dirty.
That doughnut looks delicious.
for
Preposition
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shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function
This cake is for you.
This is a net for catching fish.
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For is used to show the reason for something
He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.
for
Subordinator
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For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive
It's not good for you to be too relaxed.
work
Verb
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If you work, you do a job, usually for money.
My father works at Microsoft.
I got to work at 7:30 each morning.
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If you work you are doing something that needs effort.
I worked on my school paper all night long.
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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.
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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
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Your work is your job.
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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.
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Work is force through a distance (force times distance). This is how much energy you used to move something.
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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.