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Remark vs Arduous - What's the difference?

remark | arduous |

As a noun remark

is act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation or remark can be a mark that replaces another mark.

As a verb remark

is to make a remark or remarks; to comment or remark can be to mark again (a piece of work).

As an adjective arduous is

needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.

remark

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) remarquer, from ; see mark.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
  • The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
    Related terms
    * remarkable

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
  • To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to point out.
  • * Ford
    • Thou art a man remarked to taste a mischief.
  • * Milton
    • His manacles remark him; there he sits.
  • To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
  • *
  • To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause
    • He remarked that it was time to go.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mark that replaces another mark.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark again (a piece of work).

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    arduous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
    • The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chelsea survived and can now turn their attentions to the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in Germany later this month as they face an increasingly arduous task to finish in the Premier League's top four.}}
  • (obsolete) burning; ardent
    • Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. — Cary.
  • (rft-sense) Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
  • * 1974 , Sue Bowder, The American biking atlas & touring guide , page 77:
    • Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
  • * 1999 , Scott Ciencin, Mike Fredericks, Dinoverse :
    • Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
  • * 2006 , Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2006 :
    • Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "arduous")

    Synonyms

    * burdensome * demanding * exhausting * fatiguing * laborious * onerous * strenuous * wearisome

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