(n.) Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
(n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
(n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
(n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
(n.) Any pang or distress.
(n.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
(n.) A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
(n.) To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
(n.) To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
(n.) To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.
(n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
(n.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
(v. t.) To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
(v. t.) To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
(v. t.) To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
(v. t.) To belabor; to beat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(2) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(3) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
(4) The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of uterine contractions during labor on both the uterine and the umbilical circulations.
(5) Proper education of both managment and labor can result in successful hearing conservation programs.
(6) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
(7) Therefore, we tested the ability of ultrasound imaging to identify noninvasively the stomach contents of laboring and nonlaboring pregnant volunteers.
(8) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
(9) However, contrary to some previous reports the incidences of anemia, cesarean sections, induced labor, dysmaturity and perinatal deaths were decreased.
(10) Mass examination in organized populations at industrial enterprises made it possible to bring to light a statistically significant different effect of the level of productive labor and sport activity on the prevalence of frequent alcohol consumption as one of CHD risk factors.
(11) A planned, induced labor with regional anesthesia and continuous invasive monitoring in a well-equipped medical center provides the safest setting for delivery.
(12) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(13) Last week the labor bureau reported that the US added just 69,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%, the first rise in nine months.
(14) The data indicate that OT does not play a primary role in the initiation of labor and support the concept that OT most likely contributes to formation of prostaglandins through the uterine contractions OT produces.
(15) Amniotic fluid was retrieved by amniocentesis from 148 women: patients at term with and without labor, patients with preterm labor with and without intraamniotic infection, and women in the second trimester of pregnancy.
(16) Predisposing factors were coagulopathy and forceps extraction after prolonged labor.
(17) The Labor Department said its key index for finished goods was unchanged in July , because of a drop in energy costs.
(18) The observed complications were post-labor hemorrhage (3.1%), polysystolia (4.1%) and vomiting (5.2%), without significant difference with the witness group.
(19) Cord blood mononuclear cell subsets were enumerated in 31 neonates delivered after maternal labor, in 25 neonates delivered by cesarean section without preceding labor, and in 60 healthy adults.
(20) The association of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and pregnancy is of special therapeutic significance because it increases the risk to mother and infant during labor.
Navvy
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typical was John Ward, one of my predecessors as MP for Stoke-on-Trent and the leader of the Navvies' Union.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Traditional kåta tents near Narvik Another great hike is the Rallarvegen, a trail built by navvies working on the railway line built to carry iron ore across the mountains to Kiruna in Sweden.
(3) For those reasons we should be on our guard against cruel recommendations from once-powerful Tories such as Tebbit who think our kin deserve to be treated like navvies .