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endeavor
English
Alternative forms
- endeavour (UK)
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English endeveren (“to make an effort”); the noun is from Middle English endevour, from the verb. Endeveren is from (putten) in dever (“(to put oneself) in duty”), from in + dever (“duty”), partially translating Middle French (se mettre) en devoir (de faire) (“(to make it) one's duty (to do), to endeavour (to do)”) (from Old French devoir, deveir (“duty”)).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?d?v.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?d?v.?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Noun
endeavor (plural endeavors) (American spelling)
- A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
Translations
Verb
endeavor (third-person singular simple present endeavors, present participle endeavoring, simple past and past participle endeavored) (American spelling)
- (obsolete) To exert oneself. [15th-17th c.]
- (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something). [16th-17th c.]
- To work with purpose.
Synonyms
- strive
Translations
Anagrams
- do a never
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tract
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ækt/
- Homophone: tracked
- Rhymes: -ækt
Etymology 1
From tractate, from Latin tractatus, or borrowed from Latin tractus, the perfect passive participle of trah?. Doublet of trait.
Noun
tract (plural tracts)
- An area or expanse.
- a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
- 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England
- small tracks of ground
- A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
- Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Older to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Simulation and Dissimulation
- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Simulation and Dissimulation
- (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
- The Prophet Telemus […] mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew
- (obsolete) Track; trace.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
- (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I
- The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I
Synonyms
- (series of connected body organs): system
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).
Verb
tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)
- (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Anagrams
- T-cart
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English tract.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?akt/
Noun
tract m (plural tracts)
- flyer, circular, pamphlet
Derived terms
- tracter
Further reading
- “tract” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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