{
  "id": "work.effort",
  "term": "work",
  "sense": "effort",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a change that happens when energy moves something through space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "energy.capacity",
      "motion.movement",
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "energy enables motion through space, causing a change that occurs over time and place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "change due to applied energy",
      "spatiotemporal occurrence",
      "transferred agency"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Apollo 13 oxygen tank rupture converted electrical energy into kinetic motion, spinning the spacecraft unpredictably.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2003, the Northeast Blackout shifted energy loads across grids until transmission lines overheated and failed.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A cheetah accelerates to 100 km/h in 3 seconds, transforming metabolic energy into forward motion across the savanna.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "action.deed",
    "alive.biological",
    "balance.state",
    "building.structure",
    "city.place",
    "company.economic",
    "competition.social",
    "construction.building",
    "cost.economic",
    "decay.process",
    "easy.effort",
    "effective.useful",
    "employment.economic",
    "equilibrium.state",
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "goal.purpose",
    "hard.difficulty",
    "healthy.condition",
    "heart.organ",
    "holding-it-together.upkeep",
    "holiday.leisure",
    "income.financial",
    "industry.economic",
    "jobs.employment",
    "keeping-the-lights-on.upkeep",
    "keystone.system",
    "leisure.psychological",
    "maintenance.upkeep",
    "management.administrative",
    "manager.administrative",
    "money.economic",
    "neglect.omission",
    "office.workplace",
    "operating.active",
    "pay.economic",
    "persistence.endurance",
    "play.game",
    "power.energy",
    "press.force",
    "pro.professional",
    "problem.obstacle",
    "production.manufacturing",
    "professional.occupation",
    "project.plan",
    "pushing-the-envelope.frontier",
    "rent.income",
    "research.investigation",
    "scaffold.temporary",
    "school.education",
    "software.digital",
    "staff.people",
    "state-of-the-art.frontier",
    "team.social",
    "the-way-we-have-always-done-it.path",
    "tipping-point.irreversible",
    "title.label",
    "too-little-too-late.closing",
    "tools.tool",
    "treading-water.upkeep",
    "try.effort"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "work",
    "worked",
    "working",
    "works"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "added happen.event-occurrence and space.extent to components; definition already captured their role implicitly"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort"
}