Meaning of "toil" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TOIL

From Anglo-French toiler to struggle, from Old French toeillier to confuse, from Latin tudiculāre to stir, from tudicula machine for bruising olives, from tudes a hammer, from tundere to beat.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TOIL

tɔɪl

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOIL

Toil is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb toil in English.

WHAT DOES TOIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Toil

Toil is a studio album by the Chicago Celtic punk band Flatfoot 56, released on August 14, 2012, by Paper + Plastick. The release is the fourth studio album released by the group since they were signed by a label. Johnny Rioux, a member of the Celtic punk band Street Dogs, returned as the producer. The album was released to generally favorable reviews. Critics and fans enjoyed the album's diversity of sound and song writing. Reviewers described the album's songs as working-class anthems with Christian themes. The final track on the album, a Celtic punk cover of the hymn "I'll Fly Away", was well received by music critics. The album produced one single, "I Believe It", that was released as a music video. Both the album and the single failed to chart.

Definition of toil in the English dictionary

The first definition of toil in the dictionary is hard or exhausting work. Other definition of toil is to labour. Toil is also to progress with slow painful movements.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TOIL

PRESENT

Present

I toil

you toil

he/she/it toils

we toil

you toil

they toil

Present continuous

I am toiling

you are toiling

he/she/it is toiling

we are toiling

you are toiling

they are toiling

Present perfect

I have toiled

you have toiled

he/she/it has toiled

we have toiled

you have toiled

they have toiled

Present perfect continuous

I have been toiling

you have been toiling

he/she/it has been toiling

we have been toiling

you have been toiling

they have been toiling

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I toiled

you toiled

he/she/it toiled

we toiled

you toiled

they toiled

Past continuous

I was toiling

you were toiling

he/she/it was toiling

we were toiling

you were toiling

they were toiling

Past perfect

I had toiled

you had toiled

he/she/it had toiled

we had toiled

you had toiled

they had toiled

Past perfect continuous

I had been toiling

you had been toiling

he/she/it had been toiling

we had been toiling

you had been toiling

they had been toiling

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will toil

you will toil

he/she/it will toil

we will toil

you will toil

they will toil

Future continuous

I will be toiling

you will be toiling

he/she/it will be toiling

we will be toiling

you will be toiling

they will be toiling

Future perfect

I will have toiled

you will have toiled

he/she/it will have toiled

we will have toiled

you will have toiled

they will have toiled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been toiling

you will have been toiling

he/she/it will have been toiling

we will have been toiling

you will have been toiling

they will have been toiling

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would toil

you would toil

he/she/it would toil

we would toil

you would toil

they would toil

Conditional continuous

I would be toiling

you would be toiling

he/she/it would be toiling

we would be toiling

you would be toiling

they would be toiling

Conditional perfect

I would have toil

you would have toil

he/she/it would have toil

we would have toil

you would have toil

they would have toil

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been toiling

you would have been toiling

he/she/it would have been toiling

we would have been toiling

you would have been toiling

they would have been toiling

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you toil
we let´s toil
you toil

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to toil

Past participle

toiled

Present Participle

toiling

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «TOIL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «toil» and belong to the same grammatical category.

application · bend over backwards · blood · bust a gut · donkey-work · drudge · drudgery · effort · elbow grease · exertion · footslog · go for broke · go for it · graft · grind · grub · industry · labour · pains · slave · slog · strive · struggle · sweat · travail · trek · trudge · work

TRANSLATION OF TOIL

Find out the translation of toil to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of toil from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «toil» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 辛苦工作
• Translator English - Spanish: esforzarse
• English: toil
• Translator English - Hindi: परिश्रम
• Translator English - Arabic: الكدح
• Translator English - Russian: труд
• Translator English - Portuguese: labutar
• Translator English - Bengali: খাটুনি
• Translator English - French: peiner
• Translator English - Malay: Toil
• Translator English - German: sich abmühen
• Translator English - Japanese: あくせく働く
• Translator English - Korean: 애써 일하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Toil
• Translator English - Vietnamese: vất vả
• Translator English - Tamil: கடுமையாக உழைக்கவேண்டும்
• Translator English - Marathi: परिश्रम
• Translator English - Turkish: zahmet
• Translator English - Italian: sgobbare
• Translator English - Polish: trud
• Translator English - Ukrainian: праця
• Translator English - Romanian: trudă
• Translator English - Greek: μόχθου
• Translator English - Afrikaans: swoeg
• Translator English - Swedish: slit
• Translator English - Norwegian: slit

10 QUOTES WITH «TOIL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word toil.

1

William Alexander

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

2

Saint Basil

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

3

Max Beerbohm

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

4

Charles Churchill

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

5

Grover Cleveland

Honor lies in honest toil.

6

Grover Cleveland

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

7

Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

8

Rocco DiSpirito

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

9

Hamlin Garland

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

10

Zane Grey

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOIL»

Discover the use of toil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to toil and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Toil: building yourself

"Toil" is also the real story of relationships on the job site--a complex intertwining of people, processes, materials, and elements.

Jody Procter, 2000

Midst Toil and Tribulation

David Weber's New York Times bestselling Safehold series of military Science Fiction adventure, which began with Off Armageddon Reef, continues with Midst Toil and Tribulation WAR AND FAMINE Once the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the ...

David Weber, 2012

Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the ...

Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s John Burnett. I took this very much to heart. I thought it was a judgement on me! She was so much younger than I was, and yet she was called off first. And then my brother ...

John Burnett, 2013

For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of ...

This is the first full-length biography of Judah Leib Gordon (1830-92), the most important Hebrew poet of the 19th century, and one of the pivotal intellectual and cultural figures in Russian Jewry.

Michael Stanislawski, 1988

Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War

Exploring the economic and ideological conflicts that surrounded women's unpaid labors on behalf of the Union army, Jeanie Attie reveals the impact of the Civil War on the gender structure of nineteenth-century America.

Jeanie Attie, 1998

"To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980

Essays discuss housewives, shoemakers, labor movements, slavery, farmers, strikes, domestic workers, and changes in women's work over the past two centuries.

Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton, 1987

Toil in the Soil

Describes how worms live and the importance of their work to the environment.

Michelle Myers Lackner, 2001

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

High Impact offers high-interest books for the full secondary age range to motivate reluctant readers.

Farrukh Dhondy, 2002

More Than Chains and Toil: A Christian Work Ethic of ...

She then reflects ethically on the implications such a distinct perspective on labor might have for women in contemporary African American communities and for broader discussions about the meaning of work in American society.

Joan Martin, 2000

Catfish Joe and Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble: Two Novellas

Catfish Joe is a poor, black, street preacher who has opinions about everything from women's hair to Machiavelli.

Carol Ann, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term toil is used in the context of the following news items.

Adults before their time, Syria's refugee children toil in the fields of …

Adults before their time, Syria's refugee children toil in the fields of Lebanon. Having fled Islamic State and crossed the border, a lost generation skips school for ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Australia's Chris Rogers and Steve Smith hit centuries as England toil

Beyond that there was little hope for the toiling England attack as Chris Rogers, who knows this ground better than anyone else in the match, and Steve Smith, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Traffic engineers toil over Cross Keys, Bucks County's 'Trail of Tears'

Drivers don't need a traffic study to tell them the intersection of routes 313 and 611, north of Doylestown, is a motorist's nightmare. The hamlet of shopping ... «Bucks County Courier Times, Jul 15»

Fire crews toil overnight to fight 'severe' Carmarthenshire mansion …

A MANSION on the outskirts of Carmarthen went up in flames last night, with firefighters working throughout the night to quell the blaze. "We had a rather large ... «South Wales Evening Post, Jun 15»

Egypt: Workers toil in beautiful but deadly snow white limestone …

A worker pushes heavy machinery across a snow-white landscape, breathing in a blizzard of harmful dust. In the limestone quarries of Minya province, south of ... «International Business Times UK, Jun 15»

New exhibition celebrates the toil of the pit ponies

LEGACY: Welsh ponies Eric and Ernie with Claire Worton at the National Coal Mining Museum. Lindsay Pantry. [e-mail]. 10:58 Friday 12 June ... «Yorkshire Evening Post, Jun 15»

End of China's migrant miracle – Toil and trouble

In November 2011, Zhang Guangde received an urgent summons to a factory town in southern China where his son, Tingzhen, was working for Foxconn, the ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»

Trained for the toil: SLCC to offer oil, gas worker courses in fall

South Louisiana Community College may soon enhance the quality of the area's oilfield workforce by offering a one-year diploma program in oil and gas ... «The Daily Advertiser, Jun 15»

Golf-Els says Irish toil is perfect prep for US Open

NEWCASTLE, Northern Ireland, May 31 (Reuters) - Four-time major winner Ernie Els feels his four testing rounds at the Irish Open have been the perfect ... «Yahoo Canada Sports, May 15»

Fawad, Hazlewood take two each on day of toil

Given the fact their most recent Test match was in early January, it was perhaps understandable that Australia's cricketers made a sluggish start against a ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, May 15»