slovo | definícia |
toil (encz) | toil,dře Zdeněk Brož |
toil (encz) | toil,dřina n: Zdeněk Brož |
Toil (gcide) | Toil \Toil\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toiling.] [OE. toilen to pull about, to toil; of uncertain
origin; cf. OD. teulen, tuylen, to labor, till, or OF.
tooillier, toailler, to wash, rub (cf. Towel); or perhaps
ultimately from the same root as E. tug.]
To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind,
especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or
duration; to labor; to work.
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Toil (gcide) | Toil \Toil\, v. t.
1. To weary; to overlabor. [Obs.] "Toiled with works of war."
--Shak.
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2. To labor; to work; -- often with out. [R.]
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Places well toiled and husbanded. --Holland.
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[I] toiled out my uncouth passage. --Milton.
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Toil (gcide) | Toil \Toil\, n. [OE. toil turmoil, struggle; cf. OD. tuyl labor,
work. See Toil, v.]
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or
mind, esp. the body.
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My task of servile toil. --Milton.
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After such bloody toil, we bid good night. --Shak.
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Note: Toil is used in the formation of compounds which are
generally of obvious signification; as, toil-strung,
toil-wasted, toil-worn, and the like.
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Syn: Labor; drudgery; work; exertion; occupation; employment;
task; travail.
Usage: Toil, Labor, Drudgery. Labor implies strenuous
exertion, but not necessary such as overtasks the
faculties; toil denotes a severity of labor which is
painful and exhausting; drudgery implies mean and
degrading work, or, at least, work which wearies or
disgusts from its minuteness or dull uniformity.
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You do not know the heavy grievances,
The toils, the labors, weary drudgeries,
Which they impose. --Southern.
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How often have I blessed the coming day,
When toil remitting lent its turn to play.
--Goldsmith.
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Toil (gcide) | Toil \Toil\, n. [F. toiles, pl., toils, nets, fr. toile cloth,
canvas, spider web, fr. L. tela any woven stuff, a web, fr.
texere to weave. See Text, and cf. Toilet.]
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking
prey; -- usually in the plural.
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As a Numidian lion, when first caught,
Endures the toil that holds him. --Denham.
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Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
--Dryden.
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toil (wn) | toil
n 1: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn:
labor, labour, toil]
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor,
labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge,
dig, moil] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
toilet (mass) | toilet
- kúpelňa, záchod |
eau de toilette (encz) | eau de toilette, n: |
flush toilet (encz) | flush toilet, n: |
flushless toilet (encz) | flushless toilet, n: |
portable toilet (encz) | portable toilet,chemické WC n: přenosná toaleta Pinoportable toilet,přenosná toaleta n: chemické WC Pino |
public toilet (encz) | public toilet,záchodek |
shop selling toiletries (encz) | shop selling toiletries,drogerie |
toiler (encz) | toiler,nádeník n: Zdeněk Brož |
toilet (encz) | toilet,klozet n: Zdeněk Brožtoilet,koupelna n: Zdeněk Brožtoilet,splachovací záchod Zdeněk Brožtoilet,toaleta n: Zdeněk Brožtoilet,toaletní adj: toilet,WC toilet,záchod |
toilet article (encz) | toilet article, n: |
toilet bag (encz) | toilet bag, n: |
toilet bowl (encz) | toilet bowl, n: |
toilet brush (encz) | toilet brush,toaletní kartáč n: Pinotoilet brush,záchodová štětka n: Pino |
toilet facility (encz) | toilet facility, n: |
toilet kit (encz) | toilet kit, n: |
toilet paper (encz) | toilet paper,toaletní papír |
toilet powder (encz) | toilet powder, n: |
toilet roll (encz) | toilet roll,toaletní papír |
toilet seat (encz) | toilet seat,záchodové prkénko n: Pino |
toilet soap (encz) | toilet soap, n: |
toilet table (encz) | toilet table, n: |
toilet tissue (encz) | toilet tissue,toaletní papír Zdeněk Brož |
toilet water (encz) | toilet water, |
toilet-train (encz) | toilet-train, v: |
toilet-trained (encz) | toilet-trained, adj: |
toiletries (encz) | toiletries,toaletní potřeby |
toiletry (encz) | toiletry, |
toilets (encz) | toilets,záchody n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
toilette (encz) | toilette,toaleta n: Zdeněk Brožtoilette,záchod n: Zdeněk Brož |
toiling (encz) | toiling, adj: |
toilsome (encz) | toilsome,lopotný adj: Zdeněk Brožtoilsome,pracný adj: Zdeněk Brožtoilsome,úmorný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
toilsomeness (encz) | toilsomeness, n: |
arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome (gcide) | effortful \effortful\ adj.
1. requiring great physical effort. Opposite of effortless.
[Narrower terms: {arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking,
grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious,
punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome}; {exhausting,
tiring, wearing, wearying}] Also See: difficult, hard.
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Cross estoil'e (gcide) | Cross \Cross\ (kr[o^]s; 115), n. [OE. crois, croys, cros; the
former fr. OF. crois, croiz, F. croix, fr. L. crux; the
second is perh. directly fr. Prov. cros, crotz. fr. the same
L. crux; cf. Icel. kross. Cf. Crucial, Crusade, Cruise,
Crux.]
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1. A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed
transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T,
or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the
upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the
execution of criminals.
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Nailed to the cross
By his own nation. --Milton.
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2. The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in
ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the
symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of
Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
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The custom of making the sign of the cross with the
hand or finger, as a means of conferring blessing or
preserving from evil, is very old. --Schaff-Herzog
Encyc.
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Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. --Sir
W. Scott.
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Tis where the cross is preached. --Cowper.
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3. Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial;
disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
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Heaven prepares a good man with crosses. --B.
Jonson.
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4. A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also,
that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped;
hence, money in general.
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I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I
think you have no money in your purse. --Shak.
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5. An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a
cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape
of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying
considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the
British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a
central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.
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6. (Arch.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted
by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross;
a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.
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Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone,
Rose on a turret octagon. --Sir W.
Scott.
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7. (Her.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many
varieties. See the Illustration, above.
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8. The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature
by those unable to write.
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Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names
and crosses. --Fuller.
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9. Church lands. [Ireland] [Obs.] --Sir J. Davies.
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10. A line drawn across or through another line.
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11. Hence: A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle
breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid
of any kind.
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Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a
cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. --Lord
Dufferin.
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12. (Surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets
perpendicular to the main course.
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13. (Mech.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of
which usually form's right angle.
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Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is put to
chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which
bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or
reverse; the game called heads or tails.
Cross bottony or
Cross botton['e]. See under Bottony.
Cross estoil['e] (Her.). a cross, each of whose arms is
pointed like the ray of a star; that is, a star having
four long points only.
Cross of Calvary. See Calvary, 3.
Southern cross. (Astron.) See under Southern.
To do a thing on the cross, to act dishonestly; -- opposed
to acting on the square. [Slang]
To take up the cross, to bear troubles and afflictions with
patience from love to Christ.
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Entoil (gcide) | Entoil \En*toil"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entoiled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Entoiling.]
To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.]
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Entoiled in woofed phantasies. --Keats.
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Entoiled (gcide) | Entoil \En*toil"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entoiled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Entoiling.]
To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.]
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Entoiled in woofed phantasies. --Keats.
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Entoiling (gcide) | Entoil \En*toil"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entoiled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Entoiling.]
To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.]
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Entoiled in woofed phantasies. --Keats.
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Estoile (gcide) | Estoile \Es`toile"\, n. [OF.] (Her.)
A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight
like those of a mullet. [Written also ['e]toile.]
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Estoile of eight points, a star which has four straight and
four wavy rays.
Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoil['e], under
Cross.
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Estoile of eight points (gcide) | Estoile \Es`toile"\, n. [OF.] (Her.)
A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight
like those of a mullet. [Written also ['e]toile.]
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Estoile of eight points, a star which has four straight and
four wavy rays.
Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoil['e], under
Cross.
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Estoile of four points (gcide) | Estoile \Es`toile"\, n. [OF.] (Her.)
A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight
like those of a mullet. [Written also ['e]toile.]
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Estoile of eight points, a star which has four straight and
four wavy rays.
Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoil['e], under
Cross.
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'etoile (gcide) | Estoile \Es`toile"\, n. [OF.] (Her.)
A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight
like those of a mullet. [Written also ['e]toile.]
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Estoile of eight points, a star which has four straight and
four wavy rays.
Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoil['e], under
Cross.
[1913 Webster]'Etoile \['E]`toile"\ ([asl]`tw[aum]l"), n. [F.] (Her.)
See Estoile.
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'Etoile (gcide) | Estoile \Es`toile"\, n. [OF.] (Her.)
A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight
like those of a mullet. [Written also ['e]toile.]
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Estoile of eight points, a star which has four straight and
four wavy rays.
Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoil['e], under
Cross.
[1913 Webster]'Etoile \['E]`toile"\ ([asl]`tw[aum]l"), n. [F.] (Her.)
See Estoile.
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Outtoil (gcide) | Outtoil \Out*toil"\, v. t.
To exceed in toiling.
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Overtoil (gcide) | Overtoil \O`ver*toil"\, v. t.
To overwork.
[1913 Webster]Overtoil \O`ver*toil"\, v. t.
To weary excessively; to exhaust.
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Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled
By that day's grief and travel. --Tennyson.
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