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work:

The noun work has 7 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)

1. (90) work -- (activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work")
2. (76) work, piece of work -- (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time")
3. (27) employment, work -- (the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work")
4. (11) study, work -- (applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design")
5. (5) work -- ((physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force; "work equals force times distance")
6. (3) workplace, work -- (a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today")
7. oeuvre, work, body of work -- (the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods")

The verb work has 27 senses (first 13 from tagged texts)

1. (74) work -- (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor")
2. (62) work, do work -- (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")
3. (32) work, act -- (have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water")
4. (20) function, work, operate, go, run -- (perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore")
5. (9) work, work on, process -- (shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal")
6. (9) exercise, work, work out -- (give a workout to; "Some parents exercise their infants"; "My personal trainer works me hard"; "work one's muscles"; "this puzzle will exercise your mind")
7. (5) make, work -- (proceed along a path; "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest")
8. (4) work -- (operate in a certain place, area, or specialty; "She works the night clubs"; "The salesman works the Midwest"; "This artist works mostly in acrylics")
9. (3) work -- (proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity; "work your way through every problem or task"; "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived"; "Start from the bottom and work towards the top")
10. (3) work -- (move in an agitated manner; "His fingers worked with tension")
11. (3) bring, work, play, wreak, make for -- (cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area")
12. (2) work, put to work -- (cause to work; "he is working his servants hard")
13. (2) cultivate, crop, work -- (prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land")
14. work -- (behave in a certain way when handled; "This dough does not work easily"; "The soft metal works well")
15. influence, act upon, work -- (have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate")
16. work -- (operate in or through; "Work the phones")
17. work -- (cause to operate or function; "This pilot works the controls"; "Can you work an electric drill?")
18. work -- (provoke or excite; "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy")
19. work -- (gratify and charm, usually in order to influence; "the political candidate worked the crowds")
20. shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge -- (make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword")
21. work -- (move into or onto; "work the raisins into the dough"; "the student worked a few jokes into his presentation"; "work the body onto the flatbed truck")
22. knead, work -- (make uniform; "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft")
23. exploit, work -- (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")
24. solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work -- (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 could not work the math problem")
25. ferment, work -- (cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats")
26. sour, turn, ferment, work -- (go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out")
27. work -- (arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times")

work:

The noun work has 7 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)

1. (90) work -- (activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work")
2. (76) work, piece of work -- (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time")
3. (27) employment, work -- (the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work")
4. (11) study, work -- (applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design")
5. (5) work -- ((physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force; "work equals force times distance")
6. (3) workplace, work -- (a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today")
7. oeuvre, work, body of work -- (the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods")

The verb work has 27 senses (first 13 from tagged texts)

1. (74) work -- (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor")
2. (62) work, do work -- (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")
3. (32) work, act -- (have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water")
4. (20) function, work, operate, go, run -- (perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore")
5. (9) work, work on, process -- (shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal")
6. (9) exercise, work, work out -- (give a workout to; "Some parents exercise their infants"; "My personal trainer works me hard"; "work one's muscles"; "this puzzle will exercise your mind")
7. (5) make, work -- (proceed along a path; "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest")
8. (4) work -- (operate in a certain place, area, or specialty; "She works the night clubs"; "The salesman works the Midwest"; "This artist works mostly in acrylics")
9. (3) work -- (proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity; "work your way through every problem or task"; "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived"; "Start from the bottom and work towards the top")
10. (3) work -- (move in an agitated manner; "His fingers worked with tension")
11. (3) bring, work, play, wreak, make for -- (cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area")
12. (2) work, put to work -- (cause to work; "he is working his servants hard")
13. (2) cultivate, crop, work -- (prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land")
14. work -- (behave in a certain way when handled; "This dough does not work easily"; "The soft metal works well")
15. influence, act upon, work -- (have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate")
16. work -- (operate in or through; "Work the phones")
17. work -- (cause to operate or function; "This pilot works the controls"; "Can you work an electric drill?")
18. work -- (provoke or excite; "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy")
19. work -- (gratify and charm, usually in order to influence; "the political candidate worked the crowds")
20. shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge -- (make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword")
21. work -- (move into or onto; "work the raisins into the dough"; "the student worked a few jokes into his presentation"; "work the body onto the flatbed truck")
22. knead, work -- (make uniform; "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft")
23. exploit, work -- (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")
24. solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work -- (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 could not work the math problem")
25. ferment, work -- (cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats")
26. sour, turn, ferment, work -- (go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out")
27. work -- (arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times")

at:

The noun at has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. astatine, At, atomic number 85 -- (a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium)
2. at -- (100 at equal 1 kip in Laos)

part:

The noun part has 12 senses (first 12 from tagged texts)

1. (113) part, portion, component part, component, constituent -- (something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton")
2. (24) part, portion -- (something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together")
3. (19) part, piece -- (a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite")
4. (19) part -- (that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation; "it requires vigilance on our part"; "they resisted every effort on his part")
5. (15) region, part -- (the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space")
6. (13) function, office, part, role -- (the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role")
7. (9) character, role, theatrical role, part, persona -- (an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona")
8. (8) share, portion, part, percentage -- (assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash")
9. (7) part, section, division -- (one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division")
10. (3) part, parting -- (a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions; "his part was right in the middle")
11. (2) part, voice -- (the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part")
12. (2) contribution, part, share -- (the part played by a person in bringing about a result; "I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project"; "they all did their share of the work")

The verb part has 5 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (4) separate, part, split -- (go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party")
2. (1) separate, part, split up, split, break, break up -- (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up")
3. depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off -- (leave; "The family took off for Florida")
4. separate, divide, part -- (come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated")
5. separate, disunite, divide, part -- (force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea")

The adv part has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (11) partially, partly, part -- (in part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed")

home:

The noun home has 9 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)

1. (55) home, place -- (where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?")
2. (48) dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house -- (housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless")
3. (10) home -- (the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey")
4. (3) home plate, home base, home, plate -- ((baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home")
5. (2) base, home -- (the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end)
6. (1) home -- (place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball")
7. home -- (an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home")
8. family, household, house, home, menage -- (a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home")
9. home, nursing home, rest home -- (an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly")

The verb home has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. home -- (provide with, or send to, a home)
2. home -- (return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons")

The adj home has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (7) home -- (used of your own ground; "a home game")
2. (3) home -- (relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town")
3. home, interior, internal, national -- (inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics")

The adv home has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (59) home -- (at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home")
2. (2) home -- (on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home")
3. home -- (to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home")

based:

The verb base has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (75) establish, base, ground, found -- (use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation")
2. base -- (situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab")
3. free-base, base -- (use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes)

The adj based has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (3) based -- (having a base; "firmly based ice")
2. (1) based -- (having a base of operations (often used as a combining form); "a locally based business"; "an Atlanta-based company"; "carrier-based planes")

network:

The noun network has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (23) network, web -- (an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth")
2. (4) network -- ((broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs; "the networks compete to broadcast important sports events")
3. (1) net, network, mesh, meshing, meshwork -- (an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals)
4. network -- (a system of intersecting lines or channels; "a railroad network"; "a network of canals")
5. network, electronic network -- ((electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits)

The verb network has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. network -- (communicate with and within a group; "You have to network if you want to get a good job")

direct:

The verb direct has 13 senses (first 10 from tagged texts)

1. (17) direct -- (command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework")
2. (16) target, aim, place, direct, point -- (intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself")
3. (13) direct -- (guide the actors in (plays and films))
4. (7) direct -- (be in charge of)
5. (5) lead, take, direct, conduct, guide -- (take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace")
6. (5) send, direct -- (cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation")
7. (5) aim, take, train, take aim, direct -- (point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent")
8. (4) conduct, lead, direct -- (lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years")
9. (1) direct -- (give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall")
10. (1) calculate, aim, direct -- (specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public)
11. steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise -- (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)
12. address, direct -- (put an address on (an envelope))
13. mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise, orchestrate -- (plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery")

The adj direct has 10 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (23) direct -- (direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit")
2. (16) direct, unmediated -- (having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote")
3. (5) direct -- (straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach")
4. lineal, direct -- (in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity")
5. direct -- (moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth)
6. direct -- (similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)")
7. direct -- ((of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current")
8. direct -- (being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident")
9. direct, verbatim -- (in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim")
10. direct -- (lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the direct opposite")

The adv direct has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. directly, straight, direct -- (without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office")

e:

The noun e has 5 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. vitamin E, tocopherol, E -- (a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body)
2. einsteinium, Es, E, atomic number 99 -- (a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons)
3. east, due east, eastward, E -- (the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees)
4. e -- (the base of the natural system of logarithms; approximately equal to 2.718282...)
5. E, e -- (the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet)

retail:

The noun retail has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) retail -- (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)

The verb retail has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) retail -- (be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each")
2. retail -- (sell on the retail market)

The adv retail has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. retail -- (at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only")

online:

The adj online has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. on-line, online -- (on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system; "on-line industries")
2. on-line, online -- (connected to a computer network or accessible by computer; "an on-line database")
3. on-line, online -- (being in progress now; "on-line editorial projects")

business:

The noun business has 9 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)

1. (35) business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation -- (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern")
2. (20) commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business -- (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business")
3. (13) occupation, business, job, line of work, line -- (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business")
4. (12) business -- (a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business")
5. (9) business -- (an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening")
6. (7) business -- (the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today")
7. (5) business, business sector -- (business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree")
8. clientele, patronage, business -- (customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele")
9. business, stage business, byplay -- (incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious")

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