Labour

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.

   “[…]So I ſet myſelf to enlarge my Cave and Works farther into the Earth; for it was a looſe ſandy Rock, which yielded eaſily to the Labour I beſtowed on it[…]”

2. isim That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

   “Being a labour of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.”

3. isim Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.

   “In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.”

4. isim A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
5. isim The act or process of a mother giving birth.

   “Near-synonyms: childbirth, parturition”

6. isim The time period during which a mother gives birth.
7. isim The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
8. isim A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.

   “the establishment of a new settlement are entitled to five sitios of grazing land, and five labors (equal to 23,025 acres)”

9. isim A group of moles.
10. fiil To toil, to work.

    “Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.”

11. fiil To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).

    “I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.”

12. fiil To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.

    “the stone that labours up the hill”

13. fiil To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
14. fiil To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

    “the ship laboured so much, and took in so much water in her upper works, that we could neither eat, nor sleep dry”

15. özel isim Short for the Labour Party.
16. özel isim Misspelling of Labor, an Australian political party.