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industry
English
Etymology
From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ?st-, ?str-, stem of ?r? (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ?str? (“industry”), Old English and?strian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nd?st?i/, /??nd?stri/
- Hyphenation: in?dus?try
Noun
industry (countable and uncountable, plural industries)
- (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
- Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
- (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
- (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
- (European software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
- (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Synonyms
- (tendency to work persistently): diligence; application
- (businesses of the same type): sector; field
- (businesses that produce goods): manufacturing
Derived terms
Related terms
- industrial
- industrious
Translations
References
Further reading
- industry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- industry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- industry at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "industry" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 165.
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toil
English
Alternative forms
- toyle (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *til?n? (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”).
An alternate etymology derives Middle English toilen, toylen directly from Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to work, labour, till”), from tuyl ("agriculture, labour, toil"; > Modern Dutch tuil (“toil; work”)). Cognate with Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”), teule (“labour, work”), Dutch tuil (“toil, labour”). Compare also Dutch telen (“to grow; raise; cultivate, till”). More at till.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??l/, /?t???l/
- Rhymes: -??l, -???l
Noun
toil (countable and uncountable, plural toils)
- Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
- Synonyms: derve, drudgery, swink; see also Thesaurus:drudgery
- Trouble, strife.
- (usually in the plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
Derived terms
- toiler
- toilsome
Translations
Verb
toil (third-person singular simple present toils, present participle toiling, simple past and past participle toiled)
- (intransitive) To labour; work.
- (intransitive) To struggle.
- (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
- places well toiled and husbanded
- (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.
Derived terms
- toil and moil
Translations
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “toil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- -itol, loti
Basque
Noun
toil
- conger eel
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).
Pronunciation
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /t???l?/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /t???l?/
Noun
toil f (genitive singular tola)
- will
Declension
Derived terms
- le do thoil
- más é do thoil é
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “toil” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
- "toil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
References
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tol?/
Noun
toil
- inflection of tol:
- accusative/dative singular
- nominative/vocative/accusative dual
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???l/
Noun
toil f (genitive singular toile, plural toilean)
- will, desire, volition, inclination
- delight, pleasure
Derived terms
- is toil leam (“I like”)
- mas e do thoil e (“please”)
Derived terms
- mì-thoil (“reluctance”)
- saor-thoil (“free will”)
- toileach (“willing”)
References
- “toil” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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