Effort vs Affor - What's the difference?
effort | affor |
The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
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(uncommon) To make an effort.
(obsolete) To stimulate.
* Fuller
(nonstandard) Sub-standard spelling for afford .
* (rfdate) Laurence de Premierfait, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes'', as quoted in ''Lydgate's Fall of Princes (1923), The Carnegie Institution of Washington
* (rfdate) James Raine and John William Clay, Testamenta Eboracensia: Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, Etc. (1869), page 126, J. B. Nichols (York, England)
* (rfdate) Testamenta Eboracensia: A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York (1902), page 196, York District Probate Registry (England)
* (rfdate) William Chambers, Charters and Documents Relating to the Burgh of Peebles (1872), page 299, Scottish Burgh Records Society
* 1399 , Rich. Redeless IV, 72
* 1526-1534 , John Hackett, as quoted in The Letters of Sir John Hackett (1971), West Virginia University Library
* 16C , title unavailable, as quoted by Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century'' (1962), volume [''illegible''], page 116, [''illegible ] Society
* 17C , William R. Boyd, Calendar of the State Papers related to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots 1547-1603
* 1630-1650 , William Bradford, journal, as quoted by Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (1994), page 38, Cornell University Press
* 1856 , the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., “Examynatyons Towcheynge Cokeye More”, page 20, Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester , volume 37, Chetham Society
* 1867 , Ledger of Andrew Halyburton , page 214, H. M. General Register House (Scotland)
* 1881 , John Matthias Weylland, Our Veterans: Life-stories of the London City Mission , page 168
* 1904 , Cornelia Sorabji, Sun-babies, Studies in the Child-life of India , John Murray
* 1987 , John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces , page 167, Grove Press
As verbs the difference between effort and affor
is that effort is (uncommon|intransitive) to make an effort while affor is (nonstandard) sub-standard spelling for afford .As a noun effort
is the work involved in performing an activity; exertion.As an adverb affor is
.As a preposition affor is
.As a conjunction affor is
rather than.effort
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
Manchester United offer Park Ji-sung a new two-year contract, passage=The 30-year-old South Korean, who joined United in 2005, retired from international duty after last season's Asian Cup in an effort to prolong his club}}
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.}}
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.}}
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Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "effort": conscious, good, poor, etc.Synonyms
*Derived terms
* best efforts * centre of effort * effort distance * effortless * make an effortVerb
(en verb)- He efforted his spirits.
Statistics
* ----affor
English
Adverb
(-)Verb
(afforr)- Affor tyme thei wer but bestiall,
- Till thei to resoun be lawes wer constreyned,
- Vndir discrecioun bi statutis naturall
- if it please Gode, my body to be buryed in Seynt Trinite kyrke in Hull, affor the Sacrament, of the north syd of the yle [sic. ]
- providid that if it happen one of theym to decesse affor sche be maried, her porcion to be disposed to th’use and behove of Robert my son [sic. ]
- The counsall ordanis the scuill master to provid ane doctur to tech the scuill, and ilk honest man that hes barinis to gif the said doctur his meit about, and ordanis the said master to wait himself better on the bairnis nor he doid affor tyme as he will andssur to thame thairvpon. [sic. ]
- and somme were so ffers
- at ffrist come,
- that they bente on a bonet,
- and bare a topte saile
- affor the wynde ffresshely,
- to make a good ffare
- know somwhat from other partyys that imagenys by som prewe conwoyanssis that is in demenyng be twyx France and Spaeyn that affor the monyth of Augost next comyng that ther salbe peace maede betwyx the Emperor and the Frenche Kyng [sic. ]
- She wold have putt in her bill of complant affor my Lord of Richmonde’s counsell [sic. ]
- ...'' hagbuttares on horsbak com to this towne of Stryviling quhair all the nobilite vas assemblit, enterit vytin the towne affor any vytin knew of them. [''sic. ]
- prayed him to forgive her, for Lyford had overcome her, and defiled her body before mariage affor he had comended him onto her for a husband [sic. ]
- Theyn he and v other psons yt ys to wytt J?n Walker Wylly? Hasl? Thomas ffleccher Perys Holt ? Rog’ Leyu’ testefyed this mat’ for thrwe affor me lord the Justys of Lanchastr. [sic. ]
- Item in Jun anno affor writyn, rassauit fra W. Hoper for fynans that my Lord maid wt hys fadir 500 ducatis [sic. ]
- I was in here four times, and went out to try to get on, but couldn't, affor' I comed in sixteen years ago, and my old woman was in ' affor she died.
- DA?SY, Da?sy, gimme-yar-ans-er-t?ruw
- I m half cra?zy, all fur-a-luv-a-yeuw,
- I ka-ant affor a ker-ridge,
- I ka-ant affor ...
- “Them peoples cain affor a whole pack, they buy they cigarette separate two cent apiece.” [sic. ]