WORK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does work in mean? 

• WORK IN (verb)
  The verb WORK IN has 1 sense:

1. add by mixing or blending on or attaching

  Familiarity information: WORK IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add by mixing or blending on or attaching

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

In his speech, the presidential candidate worked in a lot of learned words

Hypernyms (to "work in" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

It has been tried in some countries as a treatment for cancer, but it has not been shown to work in clinical studies.

(Amygdalin, NCI Dictionary)

I never saw in all my experience the Professor work in such deadly earnest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His table was covered with papers, and he was hard at work in an old coat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Small pieces of DNA that can bind to specific molecules of RNA and block the cell’s ability to use the RNA to make a protein or work in other ways.

(antisense DNA, NCI Dictionary)

This blocks the ability of the RNA to make a protein or work in other ways.

(Antisense agent, NCI Dictionary)

Perhaps you’ll catch the eye of someone new at work who might work in the accounting or budgeting department.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms at work in the disease may lead to more effective approaches to treatment.

(Rheumatoid arthritis mechanisms may vary by joint, NIH)

Elizabeth, at work in the opposite corner, saw it all with great delight.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

No more work in mine, thank you kindly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Among other functions, nuclear DNA codes for the characteristics that make us individual as well as for the proteins that do most of the work in our bodies.

(Interplay between mitochondria and the nucleus may have implications for changing cell’s ‘batteries’, University of Cambridge)