labor, labour, toil
(noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages); “his labor did not require a great deal of skill”
undertaking, project, task, labor
(noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; “he prepared for great undertakings”
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
(noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; “there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field”
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; “she was in labor for six hours”
labor, labour
(verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
(verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal; “She tugged for years to make a decent living”; “We have to push a little to make the deadline!”; “She is driving away at her doctoral thesis”
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(verb) work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
labor (countable and uncountable, plural labors)
Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
(uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
(uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
The act of a mother giving birth.
The time period during which a mother gives birth.
(nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
labor (third-person singular simple present labors, present participle laboring, simple past and past participle labored)
American standard spelling of labour.
• Albor, Albro, Balor, Bolar, bolar, boral, lobar
Labor
(Australia, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
(US, Australia) Misspelling of Labour. (UK political party)
While it is standard practice in Australian English to spell the word labour with the letter U, the political party's name is spelled with no U. Although the "American spelling" has been used officially since the early 20th century, some sources continued to use "Labour" for several decades.
• Albor, Albro, Balor, Bolar, bolar, boral, lobar
Source: Wiktionary
La"bor, n. Etym: [OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F. labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. labh to get, seize.] [Written also labour.]
1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. Milton.
2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. Hooker.
4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. The queen's in labor, They say, in great extremity; and feared She'll with the labor end. Shak.
5. Any pang or distress. Shak.
6. (Naut.)
Definition: The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
7. Etym: [Sp.]
Definition: A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177 Bartlett.
Syn.
– Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry; painstaking. See Toll.
La"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored; p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.] Etym: [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See Labor, n.] [Written also labour.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. Milton.
2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. The stone that labors up the hill. Granville. The line too labors,and the words move slow. Pope. To cure the disorder under which he labored. Sir W. Scott. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matt. xi. 28
4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
5. (Naut.)
Definition: To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. Totten.
La"bor, v. t. Etym: [F. labourer, L. laborare.]
1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil. The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only labored by children. W. Tooke.
2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. "To labor arms for Troy." Dryden.
3. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge streas, to labor a point or argument.
4. To belabor; to beat. [Obs.] Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 November 2024
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
