toil

«toil» in Mova's school dictionary: to work very hard for a long time, usually at tiring work — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (toil, toils, toiled, toiling); noun (toil — uncountable; toils)

meaning for a pupil

1) To toil is to work very hard for a long time, usually at tiring work. tree →

2) To toil can mean to move slowly and with great effort: «toil up a hill». tree →

3) (noun) Toil is hard, tiring work. tree →

4) (old) Toils, plural, are nets or traps: «caught in the toils». tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, people toiled in fields, mines and factories. In the Bible, God tells Adam he will toil for his food, and Jesus says the lilies of the field «toil not». In The Wind in the Willows the washerwoman and the bargewoman toil hard. Phrases: «toil and trouble», «years of toil».

examples

• The farmers toiled in the fields all day. tree →
• We toiled up the steep hill with our backpacks. tree →
• Children once toiled in factories and mines. tree →
• After years of toil he built his own house. tree →
• «Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not.» tree →
• The ants toiled to carry the crumbs home. tree →
• Those who have all the toil do not always get the profit. tree →

note

Regular verb: toiled. Formal or storybook word; in speech say «work hard». Noun is usually uncountable.

In the corpora

• It hath wearied itself with toil; yet its great filth goeth not forth out of it, yea, its noisome filth.
• The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and toil addeth nothing thereto.
• For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.

Trees and pragmatics

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