What's the difference between labor and travail?

Labor


Definition:

  • (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.

Travail


Definition:

  • (n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
  • (n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
  • (n.) To labor with pain; to toil.
  • (n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
  • (v. t.) To harass; to tire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet Malema's influence continues to grow and his travails are watched with interest.
  • (2) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
  • (3) "It is premature to call the all-clear on the jobs front, despite recently improved economic activity and the overall resilience of the labour market through the economy's travails," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
  • (4) The billion-dollar question now is whether Clinton’s recent travails will embolden bigger Democratic fish to take her on.
  • (5) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
  • (6) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
  • (7) Disney and Lucasfilm also have a film about the youthful travails of Han Solo in the works, while a third spin-off film is rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett.
  • (8) Indeed, you can see the roots of many of the BBC's current travails – that it looks too big and acts too competitively, with little care for its market impact on nascent or struggling commercial players – in the massive expansion of BBC services that occurred.
  • (9) Instead, the travails of prime minister Birgitte Nyborg have become a BBC4 sensation, with Borgen winning a Bafta and viewing figures topping a million – significant numbers for any subtitled drama, but particularly one outside the crime genre.
  • (10) QPR added to Rotherham ’s travails near the foot of the table, goals from Junior Hoilett, Matt Phillips and Sebastian Polter securing the visitors’ first win in eight games.
  • (11) Men's concerns, interests, anxieties or even pride in our own gender roles are typically sheltered by the conceits of fiction – as seen in the exquisite 62-hour thesis on modern masculinity that was Breaking Bad – or filtered through protective layers of irony and humour.Social media users recently parodied the internal travails of feminism with the hashtag #MeninistTwitter, but behind the walls of laddish banter and sexism, there were some very real anxieties and resentments on display.
  • (12) For all those who have found this new stadium experience hard, it was a moment to lose themselves in, to forget their travails.
  • (13) Clegg's travails on constitutional reform have reduced Labour appetite for such changes.
  • (14) Eurozone finance ministers are to meet in Brussels on Monday to ponder their options, but are unlikely to decide very much, given the political imponderables and the unresolved splits between German-led belt-tighteners and French-led proponents of growth policies as the answer to Europe's travails.
  • (15) Twelve Years a Slave stars McQueen's fellow Briton Chiwetel Ejiofor as a real historical figure named Solomon Northup whose 1853 autobiography details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
  • (16) From the travails of emerging economies to the scale of the Chinese downturn, there is much to debate at the gathering in Lima, alongside tackling longstanding problems such as cracking down on the tax affairs of multinational corporations .
  • (17) For if Occupy Wall Street reframed the debate, then it also provided the basis to depict Romney as out-of-touch magnate with a tin ear for the travails of the common man.
  • (18) The Quebec Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) Toxicological Index is fully involved in the provincial program for the protective reassignment of workers who breast-feed infants.
  • (19) He also said he had spoken with Italian premier Mario Monti, who had denied blaming Spain's travails for rocketing Italian bond yields.
  • (20) The latest manoeuvring in the blame game over the travails of the Co-op bank continued on Sunday with the Conservative party chairman, Grant Shapps, claiming that Ed Miliband needed to explain why he did not know about the personal failings of Flowers.