What's the difference between arduous and laborious?

Arduous


Definition:

  • (a.) Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
  • (a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shaping and fine working of restorations necessitated by cervical lesions, abrasions at the necks of teeth, or root surface caries can often be arduous to complete.
  • (2) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
  • (3) Such sentiments are not uncommon in job agencies, particularly those that specialise in factory and food work, where labour demand is variable and geographically shifting, and conditions often arduous.
  • (4) Although the technique is costly and arduous, grafting patients who are severely burned with cultured epidermal autografts has proved to be a life-saving measure where few alternatives exist.
  • (5) Kim Jong-un has little to offer in the way of policy except more of the same "Arduous march” North Koreans have had to endure since 1993.
  • (6) The confidence vote was but one step in a long and arduous journey to putting near-bankrupt Greece back on its feet – financially, politically and increasingly socially – barely a year after it secured €110bn (£97bn) in emergency aid, the biggest bailout in western history.
  • (7) After all, it was the state system that allowed an estimated one million people to starve during the ‘arduous march’ famine of the late 1990s .
  • (8) The etiopathogenesis is still controversial and differential diagnosis, especially from giant cell tumors of bone, is arduous.
  • (9) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
  • (10) Legislative change is arduous and can be slow to come.
  • (11) John Terry insists players support José Mourinho to turn around Chelsea slump Read more Most obviously there is the fact that Mourinho is again finding being Chelsea manager for a third successive season an arduous undertaking.
  • (12) Click here to view video Dean Cundey, director of photography Romancing the Stone had been a very muddy, arduous shoot, so Back to the Future was simple by comparison – most of it was shot on the lot at Universal, or in neighbourhoods in Pasadena.
  • (13) Deficit reduction is a difficult and arduous task, which will put pressures on both business and consumers over the coming years.
  • (14) We are greatly heartened there will not be a long, arduous wait for the next milestone to arrive,” he said.
  • (15) Using Khi-2 tests and logistic models, the negative health effects of arduous shift work appear to be less than expected.
  • (16) | Anne Perkins Read more The failure of different providers of services to join up and share information has been highlighted repeatedly over the years; some efforts have been made, such as the integration of health and social care, but it’s often an arduous and unenviable task .
  • (17) This prevents unnecessary delay in treatment and makes contact tracing less arduous.
  • (18) Automated DNA sequencing methods using robotic workstations have been previously reported, however it is often an arduous task to import these technologies into a laboratory.
  • (19) The reconstruction of nasal deformities after trauma or surgical procedures presents an arduous task for the reconstructive surgeon.
  • (20) Freud considered the third phase to be an arduous task for the patient, and a trial of patience for the analyst, probably because of two additional determinants: (1) the patient's 'will' to change, and (2) his re-adaptation to his environment.

Laborious


Definition:

  • (a.) Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.
  • (a.) Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
  • (2) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
  • (3) While the TLC assay is accurate and sensitive, it is laborious.
  • (4) The aim of the present study was to develop a method which allows determination of pseudo (PsChE) and acetyl cholinesterase (AChE) activities in single hemolyzed blood samples of workers exposed to cholinesterase-inhibiting compounds, avoiding the time-consuming and laborious separation of plasma and erythrocytes.
  • (5) TR-FIA has several advantages over the more laborious techniques available so far: (i) high sensitivity, (ii) large assay ranges, (iii) rapidity and large number of simultaneous assays, (iv) simplicity, and (v) low cost provided that the laboratory has equipment for time-resolved fluorometry.
  • (6) The collection of blood monocytes is much less laborious than the sampling of AMs.
  • (7) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
  • (8) The procedure needs half the amount of reagents as separate determination of each of the two mycotoxin, and is far less laborious.
  • (9) Patient charts allow the capture of all information relevant to the patient, but are laborious to review in detail.
  • (10) HLA typing of amniotic cells for clinical purposes using the conventional cytotoxicity assay is a laborious and complicated procedure.
  • (11) Current methods for determining plasma prekallikrein, one of three zymogens of the contact phase of plasma proteolysis, are laborious and impractical for general use in a clinical laboratory.
  • (12) The method used in the present study is less laborious than morphometry employing electron microscopy.
  • (13) At present rhinoviruses are detected and serotyped in tissue cultures, a slow and laborious process.
  • (14) Both procedures detect tubular damage equally well and neither requires laborious sample treatment.
  • (15) Providers of HHC services are burdened by the laborious process of obtaining favorable coverage determinations for short-term-care patients when home care substitutes for institutional care.
  • (16) Yet, comparison of three-dimensional structures is a laborious time-consuming procedure that typically requires a manual phase.
  • (17) The core variable that emerged from the data was labeled "constructing a personal residence" to reflect the participants' descriptions of their experiences as laborious, active and constructive.
  • (18) Only four of those cleared have actually left Guantánamo, owing to internal bureaucracy and laborious diplomacy.
  • (19) This method was much less laborious than other methods that have been used so far, and most significantly, constant results were obtained in repeated experiments.
  • (20) The resulting Kd and maximum binding site values with 36 tumor tissue samples approximated the values obtained with the more laborious, larger tissue sample-demanding six-point Scatchard plot.