Definitions for TOIL
tɔɪltoil

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. labor, labour, toilverb

   productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

   "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

2. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. toilnoun

   labour, work

2. toilnoun

   trouble, strife

3. toilnoun

   A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.

4. toilverb

   To labour; work.

5. toilverb

   To struggle.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Toilnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Labour; fatigue.

   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.

   2. [ Toile, toiles, Fr. tela, Latin.]Any net or snare woven or meshed.

   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.

2. To Toilverb

   1. To labour; to work at.

   Toil’d out my uncouth passage, forc’d to ride
   Th’ untractable abyss. John Milton.

   2. To weary; to overlabour.

   Then, toil’d with works of war, retir’d himself
   To Italy. William Shakespeare, Richard II.

3. 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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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. Toilnoun

   a net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural

2. 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

3. Toilverb

   to weary; to overlabor

4. Toilverb

   to labor; to work; -- often with out

5. Toil

   labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Toil

   toil, n. a net or snare. [O. Fr. toile, cloth—L. tela, from texĕre, to weave.]

2. 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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1. TOIL

   What does TOIL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TOIL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Anagrams for TOIL »

1. loti

2. ilot

How to pronounce TOIL?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TOIL in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TOIL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of TOIL in a Sentence

1. Saadi Shirazi:

   Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.

2. Adam Smith:

   The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

3. Edmund Spenser:

   Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

4. Winston Churchill:

   I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

5. Manilius:

   Even pleasure itself is a toil.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=TOIL
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Toil
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=TOIL
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TOIL
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=TOIL