Job vs Exercise - What's the difference?
job | exercise | Synonyms |
A task.
* 1996 , (Tom Cruise) in the movie (Jerry Maguire)
An economic role for which a person is paid.
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(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
* Moore
To work as a jobber.
To take the loss.
(trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
(transitive, often, with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
* Alexander Pope
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
To hire or let in periods of service.
Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:desire of knightly exercise
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:an exercise of the eyes and memory
Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise , yet well content with the world's apportionment.
A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
*(Thomas Jefferson) (1743-1826)
*:exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature
* (1809-1892)
*:O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Lewis refused even those of the church of Englandthe public exercise of their religion.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:to draw him from his holy exercise
(lb) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.
To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
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To perform physical activity for health or training.
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To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
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*Bible, (w) xxii. 29
*:The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.
To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
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*(and other bibliographic particulars for citation) (John Milton)
*:Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.
(lb) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
*Bible, (w) xxiv. 16
*:Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
Job is a synonym of exercise.
As a proper noun job
is job.As a noun exercise is
any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.As a verb exercise is
to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.job
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
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Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.Derived terms
* blow job * good job * job center * job queue * poor jobVerb
(jobb)- Authors of all work, to job for the season.
- We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
- And judges job , and bishops bite the town.
- (Moxon)
- to job a carriage
- (Thackeray)