Labor Synonyms & Definitions

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• LaborDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
2. (n.) Any pang or distress.
3. (n.) To exert ones powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
4. (n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
5. (v. t.) To belabor; to beat.
6. (n.) A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
7. (v. t.) To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
8. (v. t.) To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
9. (n.) 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.
10. (n.) To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do ones 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.
11. (n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
12. (n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
13. (n.) To exert muscular strength; to exert ones strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
14. (v. t.) To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
15. (n.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
16. (n.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
17. (n.) A store or set of stopes.

• LaboredlyDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (adv.) In a labored manner; with labor.

• LaboratoryDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.