How can Torque and Work have the same dimensions (both can be expressed in N.m because Joules = m.N = N.m) but they represent diffrent quantitie?

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So torque and work are both distance times force but how can they be so different conceptually? I understand the torque is an outer product and is a vector while work is a dot product and is a scalar but I still don't understand how can two things measured with basically the same units express different concepts and convey different information?