What's the difference between laborious and painstaking?

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.

Painstaking


Definition:

  • (a.) Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.
  • (n.) The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
  • (2) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (3) The prime minister, with her acute sensitivity and loyalty to Tory-inclined social groups, believed, probably with good reason, that a giveaway would enrage homeowners who had painstakingly saved for deposits and paid off mortgages.
  • (4) And in the social media era every single facet of Who is analysed in painstaking detail on an internet that breeds strongly held and not always generous opinions.
  • (5) On the second anniversary of their optimistic opening coalition press conference in the rose garden at Downing Street, Cameron and Clegg chose the stark symbolism of a tractor factory floor in Basildon to rededicate the coalition to its central painstaking work of rebalancing the economy and tackling the deficit.
  • (6) By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won't end all the gridlock, resolve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward.
  • (7) It is an outgrowth of good science, painstakingly investigated, and meticulously executed.
  • (8) Another historian, David Anderson , professor of African politics at Oxford, said the files showed that one European settler, Jack Hopcraft, painstakingly documented the abuses perpetrated against his employees and that colonial officials chose to ignore him.
  • (9) Slowly and painstakingly, the Cadenas managed to erect basic walls that separate them from neighbours and to fence off a balcony that drops 70m down.
  • (10) An insight in the genesis of anorectal abnormality, combined with a painstaking diagnostic examination leading to a justifiable, well-considered therapeutic procedure, may spell hope and better prospects to approximately 35 children that are born with this abnormality in The Netherlands each year.
  • (11) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
  • (12) The convenience and sensitivity of the fluorimetric assay based on the QF-ERP7 moiety offers several advantages compared with previously described painstaking procedures for endooligopeptidase A activity measurements, what will certainly contribute to further our understanding of the role of this enzyme on the peptide hormone metabolism.
  • (13) He went through a painstaking reconstruction of the plane's emergency landing after Abdulmutallab set off his device.
  • (14) Disrupting the terrorists is a painstaking process with much careful preparation, and then sudden rapid activity.
  • (15) Appropriate administration of oral anticoagulation requires painstaking laboratory and therapeutic control, the former being based on continuous quality assessment and strict standardization of the prothrombin time.
  • (16) He’s falsely believed that slogans, rather than painstaking explanations, would convince people to accept his policies.
  • (17) In painstaking and at times horrifying detail, Alexis Jay, the professor whose inquiry investigated the sexual exploitation of children over 16 years in Rotherham , has set out the alarming scale and heartbreaking individual instances of the abuse that began in the early 1990s.
  • (18) The traces left on the body to all intents and purposes embrace a cultural "cul de sac" which risks being defrauded of most of its content by a lack of those propedeutics elements which painstaking reflection is capable of affording us.
  • (19) Watts, who was born in Britain and moved to Australia at the age of 14, said she painstakingly researched the role by watching old interviews and reading biographies.
  • (20) A direct approach to the general public via the mass media and painstaking search of hospital records proved to be the most effective methods.