different between ordeal vs slog

English

Etymology

From Middle English ordel, ordal, from Medieval Latin ord?lium or its source Old English ord?l, ord?l (“ordeal, judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *u?dail? (“judgement”, literally “an out-dealing”), from *u?dailijan (“to deal out; dispense”), equivalent to or- +? deal.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Uurdeel (“judgement; verdict”), West Frisian oardiel (“judgement”), Dutch oordeel (“judgement, discretion”), Low German Oordeel (“judgement; verdict”), German Urteil (“judgement, verdict”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???di?l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /???dil/
• Hyphenation: or?deal
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

ordeal (plural ordeals)

1. A painful or trying experience.
2. A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
3. The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean

Translations

See also

• trial by fire

Anagrams

• Laredo, Loader, Rodela, loader, reload

English

Etymology

Probably a variation of slug or slough.

Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

slog (plural slogs)

1. (chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
2. (cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.

Verb

slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)

1. To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]

     A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

2. (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
3. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:walk

Translations

Anagrams

• -logs, Glos, Glos., logs

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slo??/, [?sl?o?]

Verb

slog

1. past tense of slå

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Noun

sl?g m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. syllable
2. stack, pile

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slu??/

Verb

slog

1. past tense of slå.