What's the difference between endeavor and venture?

Endeavor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
  • (v. i.) To exert one's self; to work for a certain end.
  • (n.) An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The practice of community nursing was heavily emphasized, and it was endeavored to strike a balance between hospital experience and work in communities themselves.
  • (2) In 240 cases of genital ulcer disease among mineworkers in Carletonville, South Africa, this study endeavored to correlate the clinical diagnosis with laboratory findings.
  • (3) The present study investigated and endeavored to quantify the psychological, sexual, and social adjustment reactions to a mastectomy, the possible interaction of these reactions, and the role of environmental support in mediating these responses.
  • (4) Understanding the nature and mechanisms of the CNS transduction of peripheral thermal stimuli to efferent command signals for driving thermoregulatory motor outputs will be a challenging endeavor in the future.
  • (5) This substantial goal probably will be achieved through the completion of smaller endeavors.
  • (6) The findings reveal that through feminist endeavors, and women physicians as nurse educators, the New England Hospital for Women and Children emerged as a leader in training nurses.
  • (7) Observational instruments have been used in forensic science, medical, and social situations in an endeavor to measure alcohol intoxication.
  • (8) Bold and imaginative plans by the medical library community are essential to the full success of the endeavor.
  • (9) While experience is being gained, each party must endeavor to understand what the technique is able to determine and what it cannot determine.
  • (10) The investigators endeavored to determine whether (a) depressed adolescents would perform as well as normals on the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and (b) whether the method of diagnosing major depressive episode (MDE), using DSM-III criteria or the Dexamethasone Suppression Test, was related to motor proficiency.
  • (11) Modern forecasting techniques and criteria to evaluate prognostic endeavors are described.
  • (12) Systems like this permit compilation of data, statistical analysis, and the possibility of intercommunication with other microcomputers and mainframe systems in collaborative research endeavors.
  • (13) Because of the increasing number of patients and the variety of prostheses and fixation modalities available to the surgeon, the evaluation of the patient with a painful arthroplasty has become an increasingly complex endeavor.
  • (14) The collecting of human remains for study in museums and medical schools has been a vital scientific endeavor for many years.
  • (15) It is predicted that future endeavors will use this relationship to diagnose and treat specific diseases that have at their basis neuroendocrine and immunologic imbalances.
  • (16) The library profession must earn a central place in this endeavor, and must address a number of important issues.
  • (17) In the words of Samuel D. Gross: "The cases which may reasonably require and those which may not require interference with the knife are not always so clearly and distinctly defined as not to give rise, in very many instances, to the most serious apprehension ... that, while the surgeon endeavors to avoid Scylla, he may not unwittingly run into Charybdis, mutilating a limb that might have been saved, and endangering life by the retention of one that should have been promptly amputated."
  • (18) In addition, closer links with nearby educational institutions or affiliated hospitals are being pursued to support and maintain our ongoing marketing endeavors.
  • (19) This is not the first time a federal agency has endeavored to track the number of police killings in the US.
  • (20) This endeavor will be fostered by the further development and refinement of non-invasive roentgenographic techniques.

Venture


Definition:

  • (n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
  • (n.) An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
  • (n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • (v. i.) To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
  • (v. i.) To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.
  • (v. t.) To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
  • (v. t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
  • (v. t.) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
  • (2) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
  • (3) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
  • (4) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (5) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
  • (6) Casaleggio himself ventured that the M5S's programme could be like that of the Swedish Social Democrats.
  • (7) They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China’s ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
  • (8) "All the other titles are joint ventures or published under licence," he said.
  • (9) This finding accords with the results of similar studies of infection immunity to other intracellular parasites, and implies that the expression of cellular resistance to F. tularensis is a cooperative venture involving specifically sensitized lymphocytes and non-specific inflammatory cells, presumably macrophages.
  • (10) "[The partnership] would take account of things they are very good at and the things that we are good at and put them together in a new venture," Smith told peers.
  • (11) Other joint venture deals, designed to give the Pinewood name a global footprint, have also created Pinewood Toronto Studios and Pinewood Malaysia Iskandar Studios, with the latter due to open in 2013.
  • (12) Lewis Wind Power, the joint venture company set up by Amec and British Energy, said it was "bitterly disappointed" by the decision.
  • (13) Roy Keane tends to play conservatively these days but took the opportunity before the interval to venture forward more and it was from his cross that Robbie Keane scored No2, taken at the second attempt after his initial shot had hit a defender.
  • (14) Those seeking to stop the project contend that the $997m joint venture, signed in May 2010, did not undergo parliamentary scrutiny because it was concluded under the previous military regime.
  • (15) It’s the first time the digital monsters have made it on to smartphones – so what do you make of this new venture?
  • (16) Infusion or CRF into the LC (1-100 ng) significantly increased the time spent in the compartment and decreased the amount of time spent exploring the outside of the compartment or venturing into the inner squares of the open field, all indices of anxiogenic behavior.
  • (17) It seemed that a gust of wind had dislodged part of the screen’s moorings leaving the visiting Leicester party, who had to negotiate a new take-off slot for their post-match flight back to East Midlands, looking unimpressed when they ventured to the touchline.
  • (18) DMGT has also confirmed it is in talks to join the Local World joint venture.
  • (19) The charity has long been known for working in troublespots where few other humanitarians would venture, and for its “first in, last out” approach.
  • (20) The sale of Vodafone's 45% stake in its US joint venture to its partner Verizon Communications would end 13 years of an often fractious shared ownership.