Endeavor
[ɪn'dɛvɚ]
Definition
(verb.) attempt by employing effort; 'we endeavor to make our customers happy'.
Edited by Jessica--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
(v. i.) To exert one's self; to work for a certain end.
(n.) An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Effort, attempt, essay, trial, struggle, exertion, aim.
v. n. Try, attempt, essay, labor, strive, aim, make an effort, make an attempt.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ATTEMPT]
Typist: Rosa
Examples
- We should endeavor to secure an elevation in temperature of from 120 to 140 deg. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This illusion, which created so much sensation in London and first known here as Pepper’s Ghost, I will endeavor to explain, and make the working of it as clear as I possibly can to the reader. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- We will endeavor to do such 'supposing' as is really necessary to be done. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No packing down is needed except in the corners and along the walls; at these points we endeavor to firm the ensilage just as much as possible. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- She waits until her husband is asleep, and then she rushes down to endeavor to persuade them to leave her in peace. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In his second endeavor Adams assumed that the unknown planet had an elliptical orbit. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Leaving the telephone, let us now turn our attention to the telegraph, and endeavor to show as best we can some idea of the measure to which it has been affected by Edison's inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I informed him that I would endeavor to hold the enemy in my front while he crossed the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Crook will have all cavalry, and will endeavor to get in about Saltville, and move east from there to join Ord. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I naturally expected that Pemberton would endeavor to obey the orders of his superior, which I have shown were to attack us at Clinton. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Upon this background our activities focus at certain points in an endeavor to introduce needed changes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Endeavor to have the inside of the silo smooth and perpendicular from top to bottom, with no jogs or shoulders upon which the ensilage can catch or drag. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I cudgelled my brains until I fell asleep in the endeavor to find some explanation which would cover all these facts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was quite in vain for me to endeavor to make him sensible that he ought to speak to Miss Havisham. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is equally true that in Edison and the many men who have graduated from his stern school of endeavor, America has had its foremost seat of electrical engineering. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was acutely conscious that this was an enterprise too great for any one man, and he used his utmos t endeavors to induce James I to become the patron of the plan. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It would have perceived that such disconnection, such rupture of continuity, denied in advance the possibility of success in their endeavors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For instance, at the time when he was making strenuous endeavors to obtain copper wire of high conductivity, strict laboratory tests were made of samples sent by manufacturers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As they originally existed they were indifferent to human endeavors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The experiments wer e now definitely abandoned, and the inventor was overwhelmed by the sense of failure, and still more by the skepticism with which the pu blic had regarded his endeavors. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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