What's the difference between effortless and laborious?

Effortless


Definition:

  • (a.) Making no effort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the standpoint of computational vision, these phenomena are difficult to process, yet nonretarded persons perceive them effortlessly and without error.
  • (2) Marber achieved it with what seemed like effortless ease.
  • (3) Depressed patients have been reported to have deficits in "effortful," but not effortless, cognitive functions compared to healthy volunteers.
  • (4) His power isn't firestarting but something called "The Push", which is a bit like Jedi mind-control only not quite as cool and effortless.
  • (5) Praia da Fazenda arcs effortlessly across the wide bay from the small, traditional fishing village of Picinguaba.
  • (6) Tony Blair's effortless ability to enrage his many critics, especially on the left, was evident again when he popped up on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to insist that MPs' rejection of military action against Syria was not directly linked to the legacy of mistrust he bequeathed over the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
  • (7) Beyond court 73 Twitter was abuzz with idle speculation that one of the women lawyers present was clearly infatuated with Grant, effortlessly glamorous and with his spectacles off.
  • (8) Happy to talk for hours in a fashion seemingly effortless.
  • (9) Endoscopic removal of the stone, the easier part of the operation, can be carried out in a single session; but for larger stones which are less easy to cope with, it should be done a few days after creation of the fistula, when the tunnel has sufficiently indurated to permit effortless work.
  • (10) Subdivision and sweating is effortlessly creating more low wage jobs with zero hours .
  • (11) And she doesn't even have the good grace to conform to all the usual stereotypes: rather, she is clever, funny, down to earth, modest and effortlessly beautiful - not a scrap of make-up in sight.
  • (12) With a hint of Tom Cruise in Minority Report, this instinctive, ­futuristic control system allows users to tailor their screen (even the size of the keyboard) and move from function to function effortlessly and with style.
  • (13) These power-damaged people have been granted the chance to fulfil one of humankind's abiding fantasies: to vaporise their enemies, as if with a curse or a prayer, effortlessly and from a safe distance.
  • (14) 3.53am BST Spurs 70-49 Heat, 4:03 remaining, 3rd quarter Another great pass, this time by Boris Diaw (quietly having a podium game) who gets it to Tim Duncan for a one-hand slam and wow this looks effortless on San Antonio.
  • (15) The effortless selection of recombinants carrying inserts in both copies of the c1 restates the usefulness of this technique for selection of insertion deletion recombinants and underscores the rapid emergence of sequence identity at both ends of the reiterated regions of the S component as previously reported (Knipe et al., Proc.
  • (16) We found a new class of two-dimensional random textures with identical third-order statistics that can be effortlessly discriminated.
  • (17) After effortlessly overhauling the German Verena Schott in the final length of the women's 200m individual medley in a new world record time, Simmonds will be aiming to make it a hat-trick of gold medals on Tuesday in the 50m freestyle.
  • (18) "B aciato dalla grazia" – "kissed by good fortune" – is how Italians refer to those rare, fortunate individuals who always appear to effortlessly achieve what they want in life.
  • (19) My usual phone is a clunky (by comparison) Sony Ericsson that can take pictures and play music effortlessly, and may be able to do email – though how remains a mystery to me.
  • (20) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."

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.

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