different between worked vs inwrought

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??kt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?kt/
• Rhymes: -??(?)kt

Verb

worked

1. simple past tense and past participle of work

Adjective

worked (not comparable)

1. 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", 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.

2. Wrought.
   1. 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...

   2. 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.

3. Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.

Derived terms

• user-worked

References

• “worked”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

English

Etymology

From past participle of inwork.

Adjective

inwrought (comparative more inwrought, superlative most inwrought)

1. Having a design that has been worked or woven in.
2. (figuratively) Fixed, established, ingrained.
   • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, page 104

     As he had recovered his strength of body, he had recovered his self-command and the energy of his will; he had recovered the memory of all that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions; and he had felt more and more constantly and painfully the uneasy sense of lost knowledge.

Synonyms

• (fixed, established, ingrained): See also Thesaurus:intrinsic

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