labor

«labor» in Mova's school dictionary: Noun: hard work, especially physical work — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (labors); verb (labors, labored, laboring) (American spelling of «labour»)

meaning for a pupil

1) Noun: hard work, especially physical work. tree →

2) Verb: to work hard at a task. tree →

3) Noun: workers, the people who do the work. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, work done with effort, often for no gain; in lessons, the work needed to finish a job

examples

• We put our labor into the garden. tree →
• All our labor was lost. tree →
• The mice ran about and labored at the hole. tree →
• The farm needs more labor at harvest time. tree →

note

nothing for maths; «labor» names the work done, not a count of things, so it changes no number

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «labor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.