Pains vs Perusal - What's the difference?
pains | perusal | Related terms |
(used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
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The act of perusing; studying something carefully.
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Pains is a related term of perusal.
As nouns the difference between pains and perusal
is that pains is while perusal is the act of perusing; studying something carefully.As a verb pains
is (pain).pains
English
Noun
(head)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* be at pains * take painsAnagrams
* * ----perusal
English
Noun
citation, passage=These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.}}