What does toil mean?
Definitions for toil
tɔɪltoil
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word toil .
Princeton's WordNet
labor, labour, toilverb
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb
work hard
"She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Wiktionary
toilnoun
labour, work
toilnoun
trouble, strife
toilnoun
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
toilverb
To labour; work.
toilverb
To struggle.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Toilnoun
Etymology: from the verb.
They live to their great, both toil and grief, where the blasphemies of Arians are renewed. Richard Hooker, b. v.
Not to irksome toil, but to delight
He made us. John Milton.She looks like sleep,
As she would catch another Antony
In her strong toil of grace. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.He had so placed his horsemen and footmen in the woods, that he shut up the Christians as it were in a toil. Richard Knolles.
All great spirits
Bear great and sudden change with such impatience
As a Numidian lion, when first caught,
Endures the toil that holds him. John Denham, Sophy.A fly falls into the toil of a spider. Roger L'Estrange.
Fantastick honour, thou hast fram’d a toil
Thyself, to make thy love thy virtues spoil. Dryden.To Toilverb
Toil’d out my uncouth passage, forc’d to ride
Th’ untractable abyss. John Milton.Then, toil’d with works of war, retir’d himself
To Italy. William Shakespeare, Richard II.To Toilverb
To labour; perhaps originally, to labour in tillage.
Etymology: tilian , Saxon; tuylen, Dutch.
This Percy was the man nearest my soul;
Who, like a brother, toil’d in my affairs,
And laid his love and life under my foot. William Shakespeare.Others ill-fated are condemn’d to toil
Their tedious life, and mourn their purpose blasted
With fruitless act. Matthew Prior.He views the main that ever toils below. James Thomson.
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toil
Toil refers to hard and continuous work, often involving strenuous or exhausting effort. It can also refer to the act of laboring or striving towards something, often in difficult conditions.
Webster Dictionary
Toilnoun
a net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural
Toilverb
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
Toilverb
to weary; to overlabor
Toilverb
to labor; to work; -- often with out
Toil
labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Toil
toil, n. a net or snare. [O. Fr. toile, cloth—L. tela, from texĕre, to weave.]
Toil
toil, v.i. to labour: to work with fatigue.—n. labour, esp. of a fatiguing kind.—n. Toil′er.—adjs. Toil′ful, Toil′some, full of fatigue: wearisome; Toil′less.—adv. Toil′somely.—n. Toil′someness.—adj. Toil′-worn, worn out with toil. [O. Fr. touiller, to entangle; of dubious origin—prob., acc. to Skeat, from a freq. form of Old High Ger. zucchen (Ger. zucken), to twitch; cf. Old High Ger. zocchón, to pull, zogón, to tear; all derivatives from Old High Ger. zíhan (Ger. ziehen), to pull.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of toil in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of toil in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of toil in a Sentence
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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- تعب, كدح, كدArabic
- treballCatalan, Valencian
- dřít, dřinaCzech
- sich plagen, schuften, sich quälenGerman
- κόπος, μόχθοςGreek
- vastukset, ahkerointi, rehkiä, raataa, vaiva, uurastusFinnish
- travaillerFrench
- laboregarIdo
- litigio, diverbio, tenzone, fatica, lavoro, disputa, baruffaItalian
- whakarīrāMāori
- gezwoeg, labeuren, werkenDutch
- трудиться, труд, работаRussian
- rabotaSerbo-Croatian
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