Toils - English meaning

noun

A formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something, submitted to an authority, institution, or organization.

Usage examples:

An application for leave

noun

A particular use

Usage examples:

[ u ] a letter of application, [ c ] i’ve sent off applications for four different jobs.

noun

An official request for a job, a place on a course, etc., usually in writing

Usage examples:

An application for sth we received over 250 applications for the post., make/submit an application …

noun

The red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.

Usage examples:

Drops of blood

verb

Initiate (someone) in a particular activity.

Usage examples:

Clubs are too slow to blood young players

noun

A member of a north american people belonging to the blackfoot confederacy.

Usage examples:

Even if charlie had concentrated more on the blackfeet and bloods, the overall look of de yong's wa…

noun

Hard menial or dull work.

Usage examples:

Domestic drudgery

noun

Hard, boring work

Usage examples:

Cleaning the oven is sheer drudgery.

noun

Hard boring work

Usage examples:

The drudgery of housework

noun

A vigorous or determined attempt.

Usage examples:

in an effort to save money, i have committed to only buying items that i truly need

noun

Physical or mental activity needed to achieve something, or an attempt to do something

Usage examples:

[ c ] they met again in an effort to end the strike and get people back to work., [ u ] it took yea…

noun

A serious attempt to do something

Usage examples:

An effort to do sth this is part of an ongoing effort to develop the asian debt market., the guidel…

noun

Physical or mental effort.

Usage examples:

She was panting with the exertion

noun

The use of a lot of mental or physical effort

Usage examples:

I get out of breath with any kind of physical exertion., we were exhausted after our exertions., th…

noun

The use of something such as authority, power, influence, etc. in order to make something happen

Usage examples:

The exertion of influence over who was appointed to the job

noun

A shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap.

Usage examples:

From those few grafts, other grafts were made from the top cuttings of the trees, but the seeds hav…

verb

Insert (a shoot or twig) as a graft.

Usage examples:

It was common to graft different varieties on to a single tree trunk

verb

Make money by shady or dishonest means.

Usage examples:

The only friends i had were people i would graft with or put money together for drugs with.

verb

Reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it.

Usage examples:

Grind some black pepper over the salad

noun

A crushing or grating sound or motion.

Usage examples:

The crunch and grind of bulldozers

noun

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

phrasal verb

Study intensively, as before an exam

noun

Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.

Usage examples:

New investment incentives for british industry

noun

The companies and activities involved in the production of goods for sale, esp. in a factory

Usage examples:

Business and industry, she’s worked in the banking and computer industries., it takes industry and …

noun

The companies and activities involved in the production of goods

Usage examples:

We hope the government listens to the concerns of industry and drops its plans to introduce another…

idiom

To make someone continue to work hard

Usage examples:

We need to keep her at it if she's going to pass the final exam.

noun

Work, especially physical work.

Usage examples:

The price of repairs includes labour, parts, and vat

verb

Work hard; make great effort.

Usage examples:

They laboured from dawn to dusk

noun

Practical work, especially involving physical effort

Usage examples:

The cost will depend on the amount of labour involved., they gave us an estimated price including p…

verb

Work hard.

Usage examples:

Men who moiled for gold

noun

Hard work; drudgery.

Usage examples:

This night his weekly moil is at an end

noun

A piece of open-meshed material made of twine, cord, or something similar, used typically for catching fish or other animals.

Usage examples:

Fishermen mending their nets

noun

A structure consisting of a net supported on a frame, forming the goal in games such as soccer and hockey.

Usage examples:

He turned wilson's cross into the net

noun

A fine fabric with a very open weave.

Usage examples:

Net curtains

noun

The action of enslaving people.

Usage examples:

A slaving expedition

verb

Work excessively hard.

Usage examples:

After slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand

verb

Work hard over a period of time.

Usage examples:

They were slogging away to meet a deadline

noun

A spell of difficult, tiring work or travelling.

Usage examples:

It would be a hard slog back to the camp

noun

A trap for catching birds or mammals, typically one having a noose of wire or cord.

Usage examples:

Most poachers used silent and invisible methods such as wire snares and jaw traps to capture their …

verb

Catch (a bird or mammal) in a snare.

Usage examples:

The foxes were humanely snared

verb

A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

verb

Make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction.

Usage examples:

Before she could struggle, he lifted her up

noun

A forceful or violent effort to get free of restraint or resist attack.

Usage examples:

There were signs of a struggle and there was a lot of blood around

verb

To work hard to do something

Usage examples:

We watched boys on skateboards struggle to keep their balance., he struggled with his cousin, and h…

noun

Moisture exuded through the pores of the skin, typically in profuse quantities as a reaction to heat, physical exertion, fever, or fear.

Usage examples:

Beads of sweat broke out on her brow

verb

Another term for sweatsuit or sweatpants.

verb

To excrete a salty, colorless liquid through the skin, esp. when you are hot or frightened

Usage examples:

He was sweating profusely., the soda cans sweat in this humidity., we have to sweat about money bec…

verb

Work extremely hard or incessantly.

Usage examples:

We toiled away

noun

Exhausting physical labour.

Usage examples:

A life of toil

verb

Present participle of toil

Usage examples:

Farm workers have been toiling in the 100-degree heat over the past week., after toiling away at wo…

noun

A device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body.

Usage examples:

The squirrels ravaged the saplings, despite the baited traps

verb

Short for trapdoor.

verb

Put trappings on (a horse).

Usage examples:

The horses were trapped with black velvet

noun

Painful or laborious effort.

Usage examples:

Advice for those who wish to save great sorrow and travail

verb

Engage in painful or laborious effort.

Usage examples:

Creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny

noun

An unpleasant experience or situation, especially one that involves a lot of hard work or effort

Usage examples:

The recent travails of the airline industry

idiom

To work very hard

Usage examples:

You can work like a dog and still not make ends meet.

idiom

To work very hard

Usage examples:

You can work like a dog and still not make ends meet.

idiom

To work very hard

Usage examples:

You can work like a dog and still not make ends meet.