Word Finder - travail

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Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.

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Specifically, the labor of childbirth.

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An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).

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The eclipse of a celestial object.

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The act of traveling; passage from place to place.

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space travel

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(in the plural) A series of journeys.

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I’m off on my travels around France again.

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(in the plural) An account of one's travels.

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The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.

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The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.

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My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.

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Labour; parturition; travail.

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A traditional North American Indian sled-like vehicle, pulled by person, dog, or horse.

For the first time all that pure, spiritual, inward travail through which she had lived appeared on the surface.

You know, I used to travail in prayer that God would show me His glory.

In all its varieties Burke's style is noble, earnest, deep-flowing, because his sentiment was lofty and fervid, and went with sincerity and ardent disciplined travail of judgment.

And so after much travail we come to Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton.

She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail.

It has been a long week of sorrow, pain, travail and weariness, but the Sabbath rest is near.

At some time during that long travail - no-one knows quite when - he decided on a far more revolutionary plan.

He was sent on a number of special scientific missions, among which may be mentioned one to England, on which he wrote a notable Memoire sur le travail des femmes et des enfants da p s les manufactures de l'Angleterre (1867).

Zola also wrote a series of three romances on cities, Lourdes, Rome, Paris (1894-98), novels on the "gospels" of population (Fecondite) and work (Travail), a volume of plays, and several volumes of criticism, .and other things.

While the world around us perish, we do not travail.

Surely right naught; and therefore I tell thee no more but those that fall unto thee if thou travail in this work.

Let us rather seek to be poured forth as an offering, then to do much without feeling the least travail of soul.

In the Revue du progres, which he founded, he published in 1839 his study on L'Organisation du travail.

This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Labour questions were entrusted to a separate department, the Direction du Travail, and the pension and insurance office was also raised to the status of a "direction."

Lavy, L'Ouvre de Millerand (1902); his speeches between 1899 and 1907 were published in 1907 as Travail et travailleurs.