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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɜːkt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /wɝkt/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kt
Verb
[edit]worked
- simple past and past participle of work
Adjective
[edit]worked (not comparable)
- Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
- 1811, William Singers, “On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans”, in Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, page 73:
- A heavy rich loam is, perhaps, the best of any; but carse lands, and well worked and manured clay soils, are also very suitable.
- Wrought.
- Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
- 1832, James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage, page 39:
- ...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand...
- Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
- 1803, William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire, page 84:
- ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.
- Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
- Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
- 1835, R.H. Nicholls, Francis Walkingame, Taplin's Improved Edition of Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant, page 108:
- Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “worked”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.