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Definition: Homework |
HomeworkNoun1. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homework" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Labor | Work carried out by a person in his or her home or in other premises of his or her choice, other than the workplace of the employer, for remuneration, which results in a product or a service as specified by the employer, irrespective of who provides the equipment, materials or other inputs used(ILO Convention n° 177). Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | Work done in the domestic home for an employer. Source: European Union. (references) |
| That part of services to the homebound disabled which provides for regular training and remunerative employment opportunity in his home. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Homework is a term most commonly applied to work assigned by a school or other educational institution, with the intention of the assignment being completed by the student at home (hence the name).Homework is often a great annoyance for schoolchildren. Students, of course, would rather be exercising their free will, instead of continuing work after they retire from the school day. However, school systems insist that it reinforces the material, and helps students study and retain the assigned material.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Homework."
Synonyms: HomeworkSynonyms: prep (n), preparation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Teaching | Homework; take-home lesson; exercise for the student; theme, project. |
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Crosswords: Homework |
| English words defined with "homework": baby-sit, best of all ♦ clear up ♦ decrease, diminish ♦ fall, finish off, finish up ♦ get through, grimace ♦ lessen ♦ make a face, mop up ♦ polish off, problem, promptly, pronto, pull a face ♦ readily ♦ sit ♦ without delay, wrap up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "homework": clustergeeking ♦ high school teacher ♦ INSTRUCTOR, BUSINESS EDUCATION ♦ SATELLITE-INSTRUCTION FACILITATOR, satellite-project site monitor ♦ table time, TEACHER AIDE II, teacher aide, clerical, TEACHER, SECONDARY SCHOOL. (references) |
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Screenplays | Eat your cereal with a fork and do your homework in the dark (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle) If that's not Flanders, he's certainly done his homework. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I'm not gonna make the same mistakes you did. I've been doing my homework, reading books 'n stuff (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I've done my homework. Or do I need skin-tight vinyl and a whip (Batman Forever; writing credit: Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, Akiva Goldsman) | |
Lyrics | You missed two classes, and no homework ("Fight for Your Right (to Party)"; performing artist: The Beastie Boys) Embarrassing position of being unable to do your child's arithmetic homework (New Math; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Homework (2003) The Homework Bureau (1991) Homework Hotline (1984) | |
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 | A bare half hour, perhaps, left for her homework / Steele. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The daughter of the Atkinson family, doing her homework in corner of living room of new farm home. Southeast Missouri Farms. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wife of resettler in her hurricane-proof house, doing needlework (homework for cash income). The furniture was locally built on local materials under P.R.R.A (Puerto Rico Resettlement Administration) guidance. Outside the window a tobacco field and a toba. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You may have little emotional reserve left after dealing with your sick child to talk with siblings about their concerns, to play with them, or help with their homework. (references) | |
Some of the warning signs of ADHD include failure to listen to instructions, inability to organize oneself and school work, fidgeting with hands and feet, talking too much, leaving projects, chores and homework unfinished, and having trouble paying attention to and responding to details. (references) | ||
Business | Interested investors will have to do their homework before coming to this market. (references) | |
They will appreciate destinations making the effort to come and see them with short and well-researched presentations which show that the destination has done its homework and planned a presentation that appeals to the tour operator’s interests. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brazil | Brazilian companies know they must rush to do their homework. (references) |
Poland | This reflects the fact that serious Polish importers do their homework. (references) | |
India | Do your homework to ensure that your product will be strongly represented among the representative's product mix. (references) | |
Trade | Germany | U.S. suppliers are well advised to do their homework thoroughly and make sure they know precisely which standards apply to their product, and that they obtain timely testing and certification. (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We're stressing basics of discipline, rigorous testing, and homework, while helping children become computer-smart as well. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We've got to take the time after a busy day to sit down and read with our kids, help them with their homework, pass along the values we had as children. |
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| "Homework" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Homework" is used about 792 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 792 | 8,754 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "homework": do one's homework ♦ get as homework ♦ have homework ♦ homework assignment ♦ homework problem. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "homework"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الفرض المنزلي, الواجب المنزلي. (various references) | |
Asturian | deberes. (various references) | |
Aymara | luraña (chore, to do). (various references) | |
Cebuano | asaynment. (various references) | |
Chinese | 家庭作業 , 家庭作业. (various references) | |
Czech | domácí práce. (various references) | |
Danish | hjemmearbejde (outwork). (various references) | |
Dutch | huiswerk (outwork), thuiswerk (outwork). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | ruranacuna. (various references) | |
Faeroese | heimaarbeiði. (various references) | |
Farsi | مشق (Exercise), تکلیف خانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | kotona tehtävä työ, kotityö (job processing, outside processing, outwork, processing of work under contract, work on order), kotitehtävä (task). (various references) | |
French | travail à la maison (housework), travail à domicile, devoir de la maison, devoir à la maison (housework), devoir à domicile. (various references) | |
Frisian | skoalwurk. (various references) | |
German | heimarbeit (outwork), hausaufgaben (home work, lesson, prep, preparation), hausarbeit (housework, chore). (various references) | |
Greek | κατ'οίκον εργασία, σχολική εργασία στο σπίτι, εργασία κατ'οίκον (outwork), εργασία σπιτιού. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שעורי בית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lecke (home lessons, lesson), házi feladat (home lesson, home lessons). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | angirami iliniaraikaktangit. (various references) | |
Italian | compiti per casa. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ホーミング魚雷 (family doctor, family physician, get home, goal reached, HA, hall, Hands up!, HI, hold, Hold up!, holding, hole, hole in one, hole out, Holmes, home, home automation, home banking, home bar, home comedy, home cooking, home drama, home economics, home electronics, home freezing, home game, home ground, home helper, home improvement, home page, home plate, home reservation, home run, home run derby, home security system, home shopping, home team, home terminal, home trade, home-directory, homemade, homemaker, homeroom, homesick, homespun, homestay, homestretch, homing torpedo, horn, house dress, party, plain dress for everyday wear, platform, service that goes to clients' homes to give beauty treatments, soap opera, stealing home in baseball, wheel, wheel cap, whip, whipped cream, whistle), 宿題 , 宿題 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホームワーク , しゅくだい. (various references) | |
Korean | 숙제. (various references) | |
Macedonian | domasna rabota. (various references) | |
Manx | roortys (exercise, leisure activity, practice, trial of strength), obbyr hiollee, obbyr hie, arnane (night work, overtime, prep, task). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omeworkhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trabalho no domicílio, trabalho domiciliário (outwork). (various references) | |
Provencal | devers. (various references) | |
Romanian | tema pentru acasã, exerciţiu (drill, exercise, practice, study). (various references) | |
Russian | домашняя работа (chares, chars, chores, home work). (various references) | |
Samoan | mea a'oga e fai i le aiga. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | domaći zadatak (home work, homework assignment). (various references) | |
Spanish | deberes (engagement, prep, preparation, schoolwork). (various references) | |
Swedish | läxa (lesson), hemarbete (prep). (various references) | |
Thai | การบ้าน. (various references) | |
Turkish | evde yapılmak üzere verilen iş, ev ödevi (assignment, prep), ödev (assignment, duty, incumbency, obligation, schoolwork, task, theme). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | надомна праця (outwork), домашнє завдання. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homework": homeworks. (additional references) | |
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"Homework" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Homesworks, Homewarm, homeworc, homeworck. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "homework" (pronounced hō"mwer'k) |
| 4 | -m w er' k | framework, teamwork. |
| 3 | -w er' k | artwork, beadwork, brushwork, casework, clockwork, earthwork, fieldwork, firework, footwork, groundwork, guesswork, handiwork, housework, latticework, leadwork, legwork, masterwork, metalwork, needlework, network, openwork, paperwork, patchwork, piecework, plasterwork, roadwork, schoolwork, spadework, woodwork. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-k-m-o-o-r-w" | |
-2 letters: hooker. | |
-3 letters: homer, mower, romeo, whore, wooer. | |
-4 letters: herm, hero, hoer, hoke, home, homo, hook, howe, howk, kore, meow, merk, moke, moor, more, okeh, omer, rook, room, whom, woke, wore, work, worm. | |
-5 letters: hem, her, hew, hoe, how, kor, mew, mho, moo, mor, mow, ohm, oho, oke, ooh, ore, owe, rem, rho, roe, rom. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-k-m-o-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: homeworks. | |
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