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effort
English
Etymology
From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exforti?, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??f?t/
Noun
effort (plural efforts)
- The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
- An endeavor.
- A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
- 1858, Macquorn Rankine, Manual of Applied Mechanics
- the two bodies between which the effort acts
- 1858, Macquorn Rankine, Manual of Applied Mechanics
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with "effort": conscious, good, poor, etc.
Synonyms
- struggle
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
effort (third-person singular simple present efforts, present participle efforting, simple past and past participle efforted)
- (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
- (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen, fortify or stimulate
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French esfort, from esforcier; morphologically, deverbal of efforcer. Compare Spanish esfuerzo, Catalan esforç, Portuguese esforço, Italian sforzo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.f??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
effort m (plural efforts)
- effort
Derived terms
- loi du moindre effort
Related terms
- efforcer
Descendants
- ? Romanian: efort
Further reading
- “effort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- offert
Middle French
Etymology
Old French.
Noun
effort m (plural effors)
- strength; might; force
- (military) unit; division
References
- effort on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Old French
Noun
effort m (oblique plural efforz or effortz, nominative singular efforz or effortz, nominative plural effort)
- Alternative form of esfort
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striving
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?a?v??/
- Rhymes: -a?v??
Verb
striving
- present participle of strive
Noun
striving (countable and uncountable, plural strivings)
- Effort; the act of one who strives.
- 1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]
- 1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
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