labored (verb)
1e|lab´o|rate|ness — e|lab|o|rate «adjective. ih LAB uhr iht, LAB riht; verb. ih LAB uh rayt», adjective, verb, rat|ed, rat|ing. –adj. worked out with great care; having many details; complicated: »an elaborate banquet. The scientists made elaborate plans for landing …
2e|lab´o|rate|ly — e|lab|o|rate «adjective. ih LAB uhr iht, LAB riht; verb. ih LAB uh rayt», adjective, verb, rat|ed, rat|ing. –adj. worked out with great care; having many details; complicated: »an elaborate banquet. The scientists made elaborate plans for landing …
3e|lab|o|rate — «adjective. ih LAB uhr iht, LAB riht; verb. ih LAB uh rayt», adjective, verb, rat|ed, rat|ing. –adj. worked out with great care; having many details; complicated: »an elaborate banquet. The scientists made elaborate plans for landing a man on the …
4labor — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French labur, from Latin labor; perhaps akin to Latin labare to totter, labi to slip more at sleep Date: 14th century 1. a. expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when difficult or… …
5labor — la|bor1 [ leıbər ] noun *** 1. ) uncount all the workers in a particular country, industry, or company considered as a group: the declining demand for labor in agriculture a plentiful supply of cheap labor skilled/unskilled labor: The demand for… …
6la|bor — «LAY buhr», noun, verb, adjective. –n. 1. effort in doing or making something; work; toil: »The carpenter was well paid for his labor. Labor disgraces no man (Ulysses S. Grant). SYNONYM(S): exertion, effort. See syn. under work. (Cf. ↑work) 2. a… …
7BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …
8elaborate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. work out, develop, devise, perfect, embellish, refine. See completion, variegation. adj. labored, studied, complicated, detailed, painstaking, finished, perfected; intricate, involved. See disorder.… …
9labor — {{11}}labor (n.) c.1300, a task, a project; later exertion of the body; trouble, difficulty, hardship (late 14c.), from O.Fr. labor labor, toil, work, exertion, task (12c., Mod.Fr. labeur), from L. laborem (nom. labor) labor, toil, exertion;… …
10labor — 1. noun 1) manual labor Syn: work, hard work, toil, exertion, industry, drudgery, effort, menial work; informal slog, grind, sweat, scut work; literary travail, moil Ant: rest, leisu …
