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Effort vs Venture - What's the difference?

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Effort is a related term of venture.


As nouns the difference between effort and venture

is that effort is the work involved in performing an activity; exertion while venture is a risky or daring undertaking or journey.

As verbs the difference between effort and venture

is that effort is (uncommon|intransitive) to make an effort while venture is to undertake a risky or daring journey.

effort

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
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  • An endeavour.
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  • 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

    *

    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.

    Statistics

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    venture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
  • * 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
  • My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
  • An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • * Shakespeare
  • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

    Verb

    (ventur)
  • To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  • * J. Dryden, Jr.
  • who freights a ship to venture on the seas
  • To risk or offer.
  • to venture funds
    to venture a guess
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
  • Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
  • to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
  • To put or send on a venture or chance.
  • to venture a horse to the West Indies
  • To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
  • * Addison
  • A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
  • To say something.
  • Derived terms

    * venture capital