| Main Entry: | utilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exercise |
Synonyms: |
application, discharge, employment, enjoyment, exertion, fulfillment, implementation, operation, performance, play, practice, pursuit, usage, use |
| Main Entry: | application |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use |
Synonyms: |
appliance, appositeness, employment, exercise, exercising, function, germaneness, operation, pertinence, play, practice, purpose, relevance, usance, utilization, value |
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
Synonyms: |
burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, drinking, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, using up, utilization, waste, wear and tear |
Antonyms: |
fasting, starvation |
| Main Entry: | employment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | using something |
Synonyms: |
adoption, appliance, application, disposition, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, handling, operation, play, purpose, usage, usance, use, utilization |
Antonyms: |
misuse |
| Main Entry: | exercise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accomplishment, use |
Synonyms: |
application, discharge, employment, enjoyment, exertion, fulfillment, implementation, operation, performance, practice, pursuit, utilization |
Antonyms: |
disuse, misuse |
| Main Entry: | exertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, application, attempt, effort, elbow grease, employment, endeavor, exercise, hard pull, industry, labor, long pull, operation, pains, strain, stretch, striving, struggle, toil, travail, trial, trouble, use, utilization |
Antonyms: |
idleness, laziness |
| Main Entry: | implementation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exercise |
Synonyms: |
application, discharge, employment, enjoyment, exertion, fulfillment, operation, performance, play, practice, pursuit, usage, use, utilization |
| Concept: | Exertion. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt; stroke of work, stitch of work., "a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together"; dead lift; heft; gymnastics; exercise, exercitation; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble; uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time., labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink, drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; operoseness, operosity., trouble, pains, duty; resolution; energy (physical).
-verbs
exert oneself; exert one's energies, tax one's energies; use exertion., labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar, bestir oneself (be active); take trouble, trouble oneself., work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel (resolution) [more]; work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to (persevere); work one's way, fight one's way; lay about one, hammer at., take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card; put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water (resolution); move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.
-adjectives
laboring; laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric., hardworking, painstaking; strenuous, energetic., hard at work, on the stretch.
-adverbs
laboriously; lustily; pugnis et calcibus; with might and main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with much ado; to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis, manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs, heart and soul; through thick and thin (perseverance)., by the sweat of one's brow, suo Marte.
-phrases
aide-toi le ciel t'aidera; "and still be doing, never done" [Butler]; buen principio la mitad es hecha; cosa ben fatta e' fatta due volie; "it is better to wear out than to rust out" [Bp. Horne]; labor omnia vincit [Vergil]; "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven" [Carlyle]; le travail du corps delivre
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Antonyms: |
repose |
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