How to sign: go sour or spoil
"The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out";
Similiar / Same: sour, ferment, turn
Categories: change state, turn
How to sign: be employed
"Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college";
Similiar / Same: do work
Within this category: bank, drive, farm, fill, free-lance, job, labor, man, moonlight, scab, serve, serve, slave, subcontract, tinker, turn a trick
How to sign: find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
"did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He;
Similiar / Same: solve, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work out
Categories: understand
Within this category: answer, answer, break, guess, riddle, strike
How to sign: the occupation for which you are paid
"he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work";
Similiar / Same: employment
Categories: business, job, line, line of work, occupation
Within this category: coaching, engagement, paper route, piecework, public service, seafaring, service, services, telecommuting, workload
How to sign: a place where work is done
"he arrived at work early today";
Similiar / Same: workplace
Categories: geographical point, geographic point
Within this category: bakery, beehive, brokerage house, central, colliery, creamery, drill site, exchange, farm, fishery, fish farm, forge, gasworks, glassworks, ironworks, job, lab, laundry, lumberyard, oyster bed, proving ground, ropewalk, roundhouse, shipyard, shop floor, studio, studio, tannery, test bed, waterworks, workshop
How to sign: use or manipulate to one's advantage
"He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy";
Similiar / Same: exploit