What's the difference between assiduity and toil?

Assiduity


Definition:

  • (n.) Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.
  • (n.) Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hence, this particular family illustrates the great importance of obtaining a detailed, accurate family history and of assiduous follow-up of the entire family.
  • (2) For years Rupert Murdoch has poured his anti-BBC poison into the ears of his readers, viewers, and the politicians who pay him such assiduous court.
  • (3) He gives credit to Gøtzsche for his assiduous work over many years to get to the truth.
  • (4) He is instead, assiduously effective, notable above all for his peripheral vision and awareness of space, the ability to play not just the pass before a goal but the pass before the pass that makes a goal, qualities that do not so much leap out as emerge, once again, by stealth.
  • (5) Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey (1959) was "about as true to Lancashire as anything ever written by Ivor Novello about Ruritania," though no one believed that Shulman had set foot in that county, or understood his reason for being such a loud and assiduous notetaker at opening nights.
  • (6) But during his own years in the House Balls has worked the back-benches assiduously, diligently touring round constituency dinners on damp Friday nights.
  • (7) First, the Independent's target readers are sophisticated and assiduous internet users.
  • (8) The next step is not Read more Since then Labor has been assiduous in appearing in lockstep with the Coalition on asylum seeker policy.
  • (9) At one level it's very gentle and quite jolly; at another, if continued assiduously, it means they are after you.
  • (10) If only the future London mayor had prepared a little more assiduously for a house debating competition when he was on Dixon’s team at school – they lost – Dixon may have pulled his punches.
  • (11) Considering he does not turn 19 until November things are happening rather fast for a Bristol-raised teenager who has already been the subject of assiduous courting from both England and Jamaica.
  • (12) In the performance of end-to-end jejunoileal shunt, operative mortality can be nearly eliminated and late deaths largely prevented by assiduous care and follow-up.
  • (13) In recent years, China has worked assiduously behind the scenes to weaken international human rights institutions and publicly rejected international criticism of the political repression of its citizens.
  • (14) The acrid taste left by the election was heightened by the US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks which revealed Amano's assiduous courting of American support .
  • (15) His lack of ego endeared him to the maths community: he brought out the wonder in their subject, and was also assiduous in crediting all the academics and puzzlists who contributed ideas.
  • (16) The good postural stability of the shooters apparently results from assiduous training aimed to improve postural stability.
  • (17) He added: "The air cargo industry has obviously been aware for many years of the potential for terrorists to attempt to use or attack freight-only flights, and has worked assiduously with law enforcement and security agencies to provide a security regime that will prevent this from happening.
  • (18) One group had undergone early (mean age, 3.0 months) myringotomy with placement of tympanostomy tubes, followed by assiduous monitoring and an aggressive treatment program to maintain ventilation in the middle ear.
  • (19) He craved a smile as assiduously as he would avoid a left hook, and so natural was he in front of a microphone that he often reduced his inquisitors to silent witnesses, most famously Michael Parkinson, whose interviews with Ali are the stuff of legend.
  • (20) None had obvious underlying cardiac disease or iatrogenic fluid overload, and in all an assiduous search for underlying cardiovascular disease was launched.

Toil


Definition:

  • (n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To weary; to overlabor.
  • (v. t.) To labor; to work; -- often with out.
  • (v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (2) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
  • (3) We're all in this together, says George Osborne, and with workers' wages lagging inflation, it is only fair that those who don't have to toil for a living should share in the squeeze.
  • (4) Kelly and KR continued to toil in the Wembley heat to no avail and after the forward Brad Singleton charged over for Leeds’ next, their race was well and truly run.
  • (5) Northampton toiled manfully to seek a way back into the tie with Holmes, two-goal hero from the first match, making a number of threatening runs.
  • (6) But though he’s helped liberate thousands of kids from servitude (and into education), 13 million children still toil in India’s supply chain alone.
  • (7) Around the world, young workers expected to toil for months at a time for little or no pay are battling to be rewarded fairly.
  • (8) The striker toiled alone for much of the match and even though Mauricio Pochettino insisted afterwards that there is no reason for Kane to be unable to continue carrying such a burden for the entire season, it is easy to see why Spurs are interested in signing another striker, notably West Bromwich Albion’s Saido Berahino.
  • (9) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
  • (10) Six years after Rover's collapse, there is certainly plenty of open space at the centre of this formerly thriving town: hundreds of acres of flattened muddy fields where 6,000 skilled workers once toiled.
  • (11) A place in the top four, now just a point away, is there for the taking given Chelsea’s toils across town and there is enough quality and momentum behind this team to take advantage.
  • (12) After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.
  • (13) Take simple ingredients: an economy enduring bad times, a coalition in the toils, a world full of problems.
  • (14) We see Schenck, after toiling heroically in the underground field hospital, looking shocked at the antics of Hitler's entourage.
  • (15) Roy Hodgson claimed he always believed England would recover from their toils at the World Cup to progress unbeaten to next summer’s European Championship as his side completed a perfect qualifying record on a night marred by crowd trouble in Lithuania.
  • (16) He toiled away at drafting bills for Labour’s first 100 days in power – ready in time for tomorrow’s Queen’s speech.
  • (17) Paulinho’s toils have been the subject of tremendous scrutiny, after a season in which he did not influence games at Tottenham Hotspur as impressively as he did for Brazil at the Confederations Cup.
  • (18) What today’s landmark employment tribunal has done is challenge the business logic that suggests Uber drivers are not toiling for the firm but entrepreneurs working for themselves.
  • (19) But the second is his belief that some people are "somebodys" who are born to own, control and enjoy while others are "nobodys" whose lot is to serve, toil and endure – a mindset shared by most Nigerians, at every stratum of our society.
  • (20) 3) In case of "lacking genius" the individual toils in vain with science.

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