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Religious Terms Dictionary

labor

(Religious Terms Dictionary) :
{"word": "labor", "results": [{"typeOf": ["socio-economic class", "class", "stratum", "social class"], "examples": ["there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"], "hasTypes": ["labor force", "organized labor", "labor pool", "lumpenproletariat"], "synonyms": ["labour", "proletariat", "working class"], "definition": "a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages", "hasMembers": ["proletarian", "worker", "prole"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"typeOf": ["work"], "hasTypes": ["risky venture", "venture", "snap", "endeavor", "endeavour", "endurance contest", "enterprise", "escapade", "adventure", "no-brainer", "tall order", "piece of cake", "large order", "baby", "picnic", "pushover", "breeze", "child's play", "cinch", "proposition", "dangerous undertaking", "walkover", "duck soup", "assignment", "labor of love", "marathon", "labour of love"], "synonyms": ["project", "task", "undertaking"], "definition": "any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted", "hasInstances": ["manhattan project"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"typeOf": ["executive department"], "hasParts": ["osha", "occupational safety and health administration"], "synonyms": ["department of labor", "dol", "labor department"], "definition": "the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913", "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"partOf": ["gestation", "maternity", "pregnancy"], "typeOf": ["birthing", "birth", "giving birth", "parturition"], "examples": ["she was in labor for six hours"], "hasParts": ["effacement", "uterine contraction", "asynclitism", "obliquity"], "hasTypes": ["premature labour", "premature labor"], "synonyms": ["childbed", "confinement", "labour", "lying-in", "parturiency", "travail"], "definition": "concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child", "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"typeOf": ["reform movement"], "hasParts": ["union", "trade union", "labor union", "brotherhood", "trades union"], "hasTypes": ["unionism", "industrial workers of the world", "trade unionism", "iww", "i.w.w."], "synonyms": ["labor movement", "trade union movement"], "definition": "an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement", "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"typeOf": ["struggle", "fight"], "hasTypes": ["strain", "reach", "strive"], "synonyms": ["drive", "labour", "push", "tug"], "verbGroup": ["bear on", "push"], "definition": "strive and make an effort to reach a goal", "derivation": ["laborer"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"typeOf": ["labour party", "labor party"], "synonyms": ["british labour party", "labour", "labour party"], "definition": "a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries", "hasMembers": ["labourite"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"typeOf": ["work"], "examples": ["his labor did not require a great deal of skill"], "hasTypes": ["overworking", "overwork", "roping", "slavery", "plodding", "manual labour", "manual labor", "hunting", "sweat", "hunt", "haymaking", "hackwork", "grind", "travail", "exertion", "elbow grease", "effort", "drudgery", "donkeywork", "corvee"], "synonyms": ["labour", "toil"], "definition": "productive work (especially physical work done for wages)", "derivation": ["laborious"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"typeOf": ["work", "do work"], "synonyms": ["dig", "drudge", "fag", "grind", "labour", "moil", "toil", "travail"], "definition": "work hard", "derivation": ["laborer"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"typeOf": ["undergo"], "entails": ["give birth", "bear", "birth", "deliver", "have"], "synonyms": ["labour"], "definition": "undergo the efforts of childbirth", "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "frequency": 4.02, "syllables": {"list": ["la", "bor"], "count": 2}, "pronunciation": {"all": "'leɪbər"}}
Religious Terms Dictionary

laboratory

(Religious Terms Dictionary) :
{"word": "laboratory", "results": [{"typeOf": ["region"], "examples": ["Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism"], "synonyms": ["testing ground"], "definition": "a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation", "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"typeOf": ["workplace", "work"], "hasParts": ["laboratory bench", "lab bench"], "hasTypes": ["chem lab", "chemistry lab", "chemistry laboratory", "defense laboratory", "physics lab", "physics laboratory", "bio lab", "biology lab", "biology laboratory"], "synonyms": ["lab", "research lab", "research laboratory", "science lab", "science laboratory"], "definition": "a workplace for the conduct of scientific research", "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "frequency": 3.83, "syllables": {"list": ["la", "bor", "a", "to", "ry"], "count": 5}, "pronunciation": {"all": "'læbrə,toʊri"}}
Religious Terms Dictionary

labored

(Religious Terms Dictionary) :
{"word": "labored", "results": [{"examples": ["a labored style of debating"], "synonyms": ["laboured", "strained"], "similarTo": ["awkward"], "definition": "lacking natural ease", "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"examples": ["the subject made for labored reading"], "synonyms": ["heavy", "laboured"], "similarTo": ["effortful"], "definition": "requiring or showing effort", "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "frequency": 2.77, "syllables": {"list": ["la", "bored"], "count": 2}, "pronunciation": {"all": "'leɪbərd"}}
Religious Terms Dictionary

laborer

(Religious Terms Dictionary) :
{"word": "laborer", "results": [{"typeOf": ["workingman", "workman", "working man", "working person"], "hasTypes": ["day laborer", "day labourer", "digger", "dishwasher", "dock-walloper", "dock worker", "docker", "dockhand", "dockworker", "drudge", "faller", "feller", "fireman", "galley slave", "gandy dancer", "gipsy", "gravedigger", "gypsy", "hand", "hewer", "hired hand", "hired man", "hod carrier", "hodman", "itinerant", "loader", "logger", "longshoreman", "lumberjack", "lumberman", "lumper", "miner", "mineworker", "mule driver", "mule skinner", "muleteer", "navvy", "peon", "platelayer", "porter", "rail-splitter", "sawyer", "section hand", "skinner", "splitter", "sprayer", "stacker", "steeplejack", "stevedore", "stoker", "tracklayer", "woodcutter", "wrecker", "agricultural laborer", "yardman", "agricultural labourer", "bracero", "cleaner"], "synonyms": ["jack", "labourer", "manual laborer"], "definition": "someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor", "derivation": ["labor"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "frequency": 2.83, "syllables": {"list": ["la", "bor", "er"], "count": 3}, "pronunciation": {"all": "'leɪbərər"}}
Religious Terms Dictionary

laborious

(Religious Terms Dictionary) :
{"word": "laborious", "results": [{"examples": ["spent many laborious hours on the project"], "synonyms": ["arduous", "backbreaking", "grueling", "gruelling", "hard", "heavy", "operose", "punishing", "toilsome"], "similarTo": ["effortful"], "definition": "characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort", "derivation": ["labor", "laboriousness"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "frequency": 2.54, "syllables": {"list": ["la", "bo", "ri", "ous"], "count": 4}, "pronunciation": {"all": "lə'boʊriəs"}}