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effort

noun
/ˈɛf.ət/UK/ˈɛf.ɚt/US/ˈef.ət/

Etymology

From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”). Compare typologically Bulgarian усилие (usilie), Czech úsilí, Polish wysiłek, Russian уси́лие (usílije) (< Proto-Slavic *sila).

  1. derived from ex
  2. derived from *exfortiō✻
  3. derived from esfort
  4. derived from effort

Definitions

  1. The work involved in performing an activity

    The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.

    • make an effort
    • take a lot of effort
    • put in effort

  2. An endeavor.

    • Although he didn't win any medals, Johnson's effort at the Olympics won over many fans.
    • But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

  3. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.

    • the two bodies between which the effort acts
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To make an effort.

    2. To strengthen, fortify or stimulate

      • When old, he lived in London where, being High-minded and Poor, he was exposed to the contempt of disingenuous persons. Yet he efforted his Spirits with a Commemoration of the Days of Old.

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Derived

A for effort, best efforts, center of effort, centre of effort, countereffort, effort distance, effortful, effortless, effortpost, joint efforts, low-effort syndrome, make an effort, make every effort, spare no effort, tractive effort, war effort

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at effort. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at effort. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at effort

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA