Attempt vs Whirl - What's the difference?
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To try.
* Longfellow
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, title= (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
* Thackeray
(archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
* Motley
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 .
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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)
(label) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
(label) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
(label) To make something or someone whirl.
(label) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (1809-1892)
An act of whirling.
Something that whirls.
A confused tumult.
A rapid series of events
Dizziness or giddiness.
A brief experiment or trial.
Attempt is a related term of whirl.
As verbs the difference between attempt and whirl
is that attempt is to try while whirl is (label) to rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.As nouns the difference between attempt and whirl
is that attempt is the action of trying at something while whirl is an act of whirling.attempt
English
Verb
(en verb)- I attempted to sing, but my throat was too hoarse.
- to attempt an escape from prison
- Something attempted , something done, / Has earned a night's repose.
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- It made the laughter of an afternoon / That Vivien should attempt the blameless king.
- one who attempts the virtue of a woman
- Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: / Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute.
- to attempt the enemy's camp
- without attempting his adversary's life
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* take a stab at, take a run atNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=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}}
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 * tryStatistics
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English
Verb
(en verb)- He whirls his sword around without delay.
- The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
- See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.
- The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly.
Noun
(en noun)- She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
- My life is one social whirl .
- OK, let's give it a whirl .
