Attempt vs Treatise - What's the difference?

Attempt is a related term of treatise.

As nouns the difference between attempt and treatise

is that attempt is the action of trying at something while treatise is a formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

As a verb attempt

is to try.

attempt

English

Verb

(en verb)

To try.

I attempted to sing, but my throat was too hoarse.

to attempt an escape from prison

* Longfellow

Something attempted , something done, / Has earned a night's repose.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

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(obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.

* Thackeray

It made the laughter of an afternoon / That Vivien should attempt the blameless king.

(archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.

one who attempts the virtue of a woman

* Shakespeare

Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: / Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute.

(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.

to attempt the enemy's camp

* Motley

without attempting his adversary's life

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

Synonyms

* take a stab at, take a run at

Noun

(en noun)

The action of trying at something.

* We made an attempt to cross the stream, but didn't manage.

* This poem is much better than the feeble attempt of mine.

* It was worth the attempt .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

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An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

* 1584' ''No man can charge us of any '''attempt against the realm. (Allen's Defence Of English Catholics, cited after Edinburgh review 1883, p. 378)

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "attempt": first, failed, desperate, last, half-hearted, unsuccessful, serious, successful, feeble, new, honest, vain, sincere, ambitious, earnest, clumsy, direct, hard, brilliant, official, useless, clever, sophisticated, amateurish.

Synonyms

* effort * try

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treatise

English

Noun

(en noun)

A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”

*2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

*:And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

, title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}

Synonyms

* dissertation * disquisition * monograph * treatment (Informal explanation, usually in essay form.)

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