different between worked vs unworked

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 Middle English unwerked, unwerched, equivalent to un- +? worked. Doublet of unwrought.

Adjective

unworked (comparative more unworked, superlative most unworked)

1. Yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.

2. (archaeology) Describing an unaltered material found associated with human tool-making or other cultural activity.

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