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Crusade vs Effort - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between crusade and effort

is that crusade is any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims while effort is the work involved in performing an activity; exertion.

As verbs the difference between crusade and effort

is that crusade is to make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause while effort is to make an effort.

As a proper noun Crusade

is one of a series of ostensibly religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.

crusade

English

Alternative forms

(medieval history) (Crusade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
    • During the crusades , many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.
  • (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
    • a crusade against drug abuse
  • (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

    • Derived terms

    * crusader

    Related terms

    * cross * crucial * crucifer * crucify * crucifixion * excruciate * excruciation

    References

    * AskOxford.com

    See also

    * holy war * jihad * Miles Christi

    Verb

    (crusad)
  • To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
    • He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.

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    effort

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
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  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
  • An endeavour.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , 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.}}
  • A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
    • (Rankine)

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "effort": conscious, good, poor, etc.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * best efforts * centre of effort * effort distance * effortless * make an effort

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (uncommon) To make an effort.
  • (obsolete) To stimulate.
  • * Fuller
    • He efforted his spirits.

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