Essay Roget’s Thesaurus §675 N. essay, trial,
endeavor, attempt, aim, struggle,
venture,
adventure, speculation, coup d'essai,
debut,
probation V. try, essay, experiment,
endeavor,
strive,
tempt, attempt, make an attempt,
venture,
adventure,
speculate, take one's chance, tempt fortune, try one's fortune, try one's luck, try one's hand, use one's endeavor, feel one's way, grope one's way, pick one's way, try hard,
push, make a bold push, use one's best endeavor, do one's best
Adv. experimentally, on trial, at a venture, by rule of thumb, if one may be so bold
Phr. aut non tentaris aut perfice, chi non s'arrischia non guadagna
N. exertion, effort, strain,
tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle,
spell,
spurt,
spirt, stroke of work, stitch of work, "a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together", dead lift,
heft,
gymnastics, exercise,
exercitation, wear and tear,
ado, toil and trouble, uphill work, hard work, warm work, harvest time, labor, work,
toil,
travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow,
swink,
drudgery, slavery,
fagging, hammering, limae labor, industry, industriousness,
operoseness,
operosity, trouble, pains, duty, resolution, energy
V. exert oneself, exert one's energies, tax one's energies, use exertion, labor, work,
toil,
moil,
sweat,
fag,
drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through,
strive, stretch a long arm, pull,
tug,
ply, ply the oar, tug at the oar, do the work, take the laboring oar bestir oneself (be active) 682, take trouble, trouble oneself, work hard, rough it, put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm, fall to work, bend the bow, buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel, work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver, labor day and night, work day and night, redouble one's efforts, do double duty, work double hours, work double tides, sit up, burn the candle at both ends, stick to, work one's way, fight one's way, lay about one, hammer at, take pains, do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost, give one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power, use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor, try one's best, try one's utmost, play one's best card, put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost, have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve, spare no efforts, spare no pains, go all lengths, go through fire and water, move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned
Adj. laboring, laborious,
operose, elaborate, strained,
toilsome,
troublesome,
wearisome,
uphill,
herculean,
gymnastic,
palestric, hard-working,
painstaking,
strenuous,
energetic, hard at work, on the stretch
Adv. laboriously,
lustily, pugnis et calcibus, with might and main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with much ado, to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis, manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs, heart and soul, through thick and thin, by the sweat of one's brow, suo marte
Phr. aide-toi le ciel t'aidera, "and still be doing, never done", buen principio la mitad es hecha, cosa ben fatta e' fatta due volie, "it is better to wear out than to rust out", labor omnia vincit "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven", le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit, manu forti, ora et labora
N. contention,
strife, contest,
contestation, struggle,
belligerency, opposition, controversy,
polemics,
debate, war of words,
logomachy,
litigation, paper war, high words,
sparring, competition,
rivalry,
corrivalry,
corrivalship, agonism|, concours,
match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase,
handicap,
regatta, field day, sham fight, derby day,
turf,
sporting,
bullfight,
tauromachy, gymkhana, boat race, torpids,
wrestling, greco-roman wrestling,
pugilism, boxing,
fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense,
spar, mill,
set-to, round,
bout, event, prize fighting,
quarterstaff, single stick,
gladiatorship,
gymnastics, jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo,
athletics,
athletic sports, games of skill,
shindy,
fracas, clash of arms,
tussle,
scuffle,
broil,
fray,
affray, affrayment|, velitation|, colluctation|,
luctation,
brabble, brigue|,
scramble,
melee,
scrimmage,
stramash,
bushfighting, free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight, conflict,
skirmish,
rencounter,
encounter,
rencontre,
collision,
affair,
brush, fight, battle, battle royal,
combat, action, engagement,
joust,
tournament,
tilt,
tilting, tournay, list, pitched battle, death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle,
armageddon, hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war, naval engagement,
naumachia,
sea fight,
duel,
duello, single combat,
monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor, triangular duel, hostile meeting,
digladiation, deeds of arms, feats of arms, appeal to arms,
pugnacity,
combativeness, bone of contention
V. contend, contest,
strive, struggle,
scramble,
wrestle,
spar, square, exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs, fib|,
justle,
tussle,
tilt, box,
stave,
fence,
skirmish,
pickeer, fight,
wrangle, contend &c. with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush, with, tilt with,
encounter, fall foul of, pitch into,
clapperclaw, run a tilt at,
oppose,
reluct, join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand, take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet, enter the lists, couch one's lance, give satisfaction, appeal to arms, lay about one, break the peace, compete with, cope with, vie with, race with,
outvie,
emulate, rival, run a race, contend &c. for, stipulate for, stickle for, insist upon, make a point of
Adj. contending, together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at issue,
competitive, rival,
belligerent,
contentious,
combative,
bellicose, unpeaceful, warlike,
quarrelsome,
pugnacious,
pugilistic,
gladiatorial,
palestric,
palestrical Phr. a verbis ad verbera, a word and a blow, "a very pretty quarrel as it stands", commune periculum concordiam parit, lis litem generat
