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作
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Definitions
- 1. to do; to engage in
- 2. to write; to compose
- 3. to pretend; to feign
- 4. to regard as; to consider to be
- 5. to be; to act the part of
- 6. to feel (itchy, nauseous etc)
- 7. writings; works
Example Sentences
1 shown別 作 聲！
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 作
part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
to accompany
to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc)
sedimentation (geology)
Heaven is cooperating (idiom)
daily schedule
operator
collectivization (in Marxist theory)
serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)
lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal
to work
deep plowing and careful cultivation
worksheet
to be called
(agriculture) to switch to growing a different crop
to liken to
opposite reaction
eight-hour working day
catalysis
sawhorse
nuclear interaction
masterpiece
kitsch
a perception that doesn't reflect reality
volunteer
worker in science and technology
work team
action at a distance (e.g. gravitational force)
photochemical effect
cooperation
journalist
multitasking
to sin
Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
to look upon as
first publication; maiden work
to incite trouble
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom)
to write
maker
representative work (of an author or artist)
style
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
overwork
Studio Ghibli, Japanese film studio
homework
to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
see 暗箱操作[àn xiāng cāo zuò]
lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun
to denote
to put on an act
anonymous author
school assignment
farming
worker
rice cultivation
to take one's leave
to show off (loanword, from English \show\)
to be valid; to count
writer
to work high above the ground
epileptic seizure
workbench
working committee
to bestir oneself
(computer) workstation
oil crop (rape, peanut, soy, sesame etc)
lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)
a working group; a task force
strong interaction (governing hadrons in nuclear physics)
action movie
to conduct oneself
(idiom) to act as accomplice to the tiger; to help a villain do evil
operating speed
to be a thief
to cut a long story short
masterpiece
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
to pledge
to serve as
copyright
to do evil
interactive theory
the strong force (in nuclear physics)
photosynthesis
to rebel; to rise in revolt
Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization
to interact
condiments
catabolism (biology)
to act as surety for sb
to regard as
sequel
co-worker
to work and rest
zymolysis
to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
working hours
(idiom) to stop at nothing; to dare to do anything
to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn
masterpiece
to bear witness; to testify
operating environment
(business) partner
(computing) global scope
work unit
to cooperate
intercropping
work
Jiaozuo prefecture-level city in Henan
weak interaction (physics)
euphemism for Japanese porn movie
work that makes one's name
to put on an attitude
workday
cooperative partner
tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
(slang) masterpiece
to set oneself against
playwright
reflex action
noncooperation
to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth
to make merry
to treat as
a little bit of it does one good, but carried to excess it's harmful (idiom)
to consider erroneously
to set aside for; to keep as
all the trades
to hinder
filmmaking
New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme
to bow respectfully with clasped hands
operator (computing)
signature move
(mining) coalface
to write an essay
covert activities (election rigging etc)
phagocytosis (ingesting and destroying foreign matter)
Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), Guomindang general, subsequently PRC top general and politician
fake move or pass (sports)
weathering (of rocks)
to make a match
network operating system
employment as sex worker
electromagnetic interaction (between particles)
to compose
see 做派[zuò pài]
to think for oneself and act accordingly (idiom); to act on one's own initiative
to ache dully
studio
farming
effort
affected
to reap what one has sown (idiom)
valid
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
see 成雙成對|成双成对[chéng shuāng chéng duì]
police spy
to write
to be called; to be known as
cooperative
transpiration
to practice fraud
alkylation
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930
to work
to pretend
artificial show of seriousness
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific)
competence
cash crop (economics)
to do
to operate
Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928
being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)
improvisation
to flare up; to break out
work (of art)
drinking party
unaffected (i.e. behaving naturally)
side effect
chemotaxis (movement of leukocytes under chemical stimulus)
original works
to paint
maybe
to ache
workflow
to compose (music)
operand (computing)
Hezuo, county-level city in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[gān nán zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Gansu
producer
haunted
intensive farming
multithreading
missing in action (MIA) (military)
to have passed away
decomposition
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
to answer
to become invalid
metamorphism (geology)
China Writers Association (CWA)
ugly people will do all kinds of weird things to get attention (idiom)
narcolepsy
to act on
to task
to write in the style of some author
lit. to summon demons to create havoc (idiom)
work clothes
to make a cocoon
grain crops
to telecommute; to work remotely
originator
pleasure seeking (idiom); life of dissipation
United Front Work Department of CCP Central Committee (UFWD)
to play the profound thinker
Urtext edition
to finish work
behavior
to commit a crime
erosion
synergy
operating desk
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom)
to hype
to flout the law
combat
to keep silent
operator
full-time work
(followed by a verb) slightly
routine
my unworthy manuscript (humble expr.)
literary work
assimilation
posturing
operating rules
posthumous work
lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning)
Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC)
to adopt an attitude
to have an effect
now working, now stopping
anonymous author
composer
daily schedule
effective
lit. to get up at sunrise and work until sunset (proverb)
social work
porn
slow motion
target matching task
operating environment
lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
pretension
workaholic
Heaven is not cooperating (idiom)
(computing) local scope
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
staff member
agricultural producers' cooperative
working memory
weak interaction (in particle physics)
to change into
workload
to put out
Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[lǔ xùn], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
(mining) face (as in coalface 採煤工作面|采煤工作面[cǎi méi gōng zuò miàn])
to court disaster
author
to feign
to drop (subject etc)
to bow with hands held in front
ruler and compass construction (geometry)
to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor
remote operation
affected
to make arbitrary decisions
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking)
to die
catalysis
contemptible
the final work in the career of a composer, film director or architect etc
sex worker
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个[gè])
to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
(farm) crops
panic attack
strong interaction (in particle physics)
to think oneself clever (idiom)
for reference only
to make; to manufacture
to feel sick
to bow respectfully with clasped hands
reflex
to call
rotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil)
operating system
network operating system
to use for the purpose of
a match made in heaven (idiom)
workshop (of artisan)
normal operation
the weak force (in particle physics)
can be used for
working report
to create
to ill-use
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
copyright
(of a ghost) to make strange things happen
collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
conjugation
to host (a dinner)
(idiom) to achieve sth worthwhile; to make a positive contribution
Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), economic cooperation program between China and Vietnam
to show signs of anger
painting; picture
to tease
to attempt
the art of the possible (Bismarck on politics)
to play deaf-mute
to take notes
to decide; to have the final say
workflow
to go from anger to happiness (idiom)
to accomplish much
course of action
to change into
to join forces
collective farm, Russian: kolkhoz
in a spurt of energy
apocryphal writings
to prepare
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
see 作戰失蹤人員|作战失踪人员[zuò zhàn shī zōng rén yuán]
interplanting
to rebel against the emperor (idiom)
Jiaozuo prefecture-level city in Henan
lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom)
originality
to work like a horse and toil like an ox
inhibition
to regard as
mixed cropping (i.e. growing two crops together)
radiological operations
mass wasting (geology)
polymerization
to make love
to do one's work
nonfeasance
to make preparations
orogeny (geology)
lexical decision task
collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
to pretend
crop
attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive
lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
to put on an act (idiom); to show affectation
masonry workshop
one's conduct
to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
one's conduct and deeds
author; writer
to counterfeit
a work in a classic style
practical joke
to have sth made to order
to imagine that one's love is reciprocated
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
educator
workpiece
to be honest and upright
disaster one brings on oneself
dissolving
also written as
social worker
composer