Toil vs Moil - What's the difference?
toil | moil |
labour, work
* 1908:
trouble, strife
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
* Denham
* Dryden
To labour; work.
To struggle.
To work (something); often with out .
* Holland
* Milton
To weary through excessive labour.
* Shakespeare
To toil, to work hard.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
* {{quote-book, passage=There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
, author=Robert W. Service
, title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
, chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee)
, year=1907}}
To churn continually.
Hard work.
Confusion, turmoil.
A spot; a defilement.
* (rfdate) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
(glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
(glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
(glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
Moil is a synonym of toil.
As nouns the difference between toil and moil
is that toil is labour, work while moil is hard work.As verbs the difference between toil and moil
is that toil is to labour; work while moil is to toil, to work hard.toil
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ...he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
- As a Numidian lion, when first caught, / Endures the toil that holds him.
- Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
Verb
(en verb)- places well toiled and husbanded
- [I] toiled out my uncouth passage.
- toiled with works of war
Synonyms
* , (l)See also
* toil and moilAnagrams
* ----moil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'.Verb
(en verb)- Moil not too much under ground.
- Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Noun
- The moil of death upon them.