Handiwork

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hand=i=work

CIDE DICTIONARY

Handiwork, n. [OE. handiwerc, AS. handgeweorc; hand hand + geweorc work; prefix ge- + weorc. See Work.].

 Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.  [1913 Webster]
"The firmament showeth his handiwork."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Handiwork, n. work done or a thing made by hand, or by a particular person.

Etymology

OE handgeweorc

THESAURUS

Handiwork

accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, architecture, artifact, assembly, blow, brainchild, building, casting, child, coinage, composition, concoction, construction, conversion, coup, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, dealings, deed, devising, dirty work, distillation, doing, doings, donkeywork, drudgery, effect, effort, elaboration, employment, end product, endeavor, enterprise, erection, essence, exploit, extract, extraction, fabrication, fag, fait accompli, fashioning, fatigue, feat, formation, forming, formulation, framing, fruit, gest, go, grind, growing, hand, handicraft, handwork, harvesting, industry, invention, issue, job, labor, lick, lick of work, machining, making, maneuver, manual labor, manufacture, manufacturing, masterpiece, masterwork, measure, milling, mining, mintage, moil, molding, move, new mintage, offspring, opera, operation, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, overt act, passage, performance, prefabrication, preparation, proceeding, processing, producing, product, production, raising, rat race, refining, res gestae, result, scut work, shaping, slavery, smelting, spadework, step, stroke, stroke of work, stunt, sweat, task, thing, thing done, tiresome work, toil, tour de force, transaction, travail, treadmill, turn, undertaking, work, workmanship, works

ROGET THESAURUS

Handiwork

Action

N action, performance, doing perpetration, exercise, excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor, praxis, execution, procedure, handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force, feat, exploit, achievement, handiwork, workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy, actor, doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation, in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of, red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in, action is eloquence, actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, awake, arise, or be forever fall'n, dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, the great end of life is not knowledge but action, thought is the soul of act, vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, we live in deeds not years.

Effect

N effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative, derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.