Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of labor is as below...

Incumbrance :: Incumbrance (n.) A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check..

Work :: Work (v. t.) To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor..

Labor :: Labor (n.) To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

Overlabor :: Overlabor (v. t.) To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.

Symphony :: Symphony (n.) An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the symphonic poems of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing..

Travail :: Travail (n.) To labor with pain; to toil.

Work :: Work (v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion..

Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor..

Spontoon :: Spontaneous (a.) Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood..

On :: On (prep.) At or in the time of; during; as, on Sunday we abstain from labor. See At (synonym)..

Recall :: Recall (n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc..

Holiday :: Holiday (n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.

Editorial :: Editorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks..

Fagging :: Fagging (n.) Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school..

Pageant :: Pageant (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display..

Washy :: Washy (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse..

Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.].

Fatigue :: Fatigue (n.) Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

Cost :: Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit..

Random Fonts

Most Popular