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  • 1 work

    [wə:k] 1. noun
    1) (effort made in order to achieve or make something: He has done a lot of work on this project) vinna
    2) (employment: I cannot find work in this town.) vinna, starf
    3) (a task or tasks; the thing that one is working on: Please clear your work off the table.) verkefni
    4) (a painting, book, piece of music etc: the works of Van Gogh / Shakespeare/Mozart; This work was composed in 1816.) verk
    5) (the product or result of a person's labours: His work has shown a great improvement lately.) vinna
    6) (one's place of employment: He left (his) work at 5.30 p.m.; I don't think I'll go to work tomorrow.) vinnustaður
    2. verb
    1) (to (cause to) make efforts in order to achieve or make something: She works at the factory three days a week; He works his employees very hard; I've been working on/at a new project.) vinna, starfa; láta (e-n) vinna
    2) (to be employed: Are you working just now?) hafa starf/vinnu
    3) (to (cause to) operate (in the correct way): He has no idea how that machine works / how to work that machine; That machine doesn't/won't work, but this one's working.) vera í lagi, virka
    4) (to be practicable and/or successful: If my scheme works, we'll be rich!) gefast vel, heppnast
    5) (to make (one's way) slowly and carefully with effort or difficulty: She worked her way up the rock face.) mjaka(st)
    6) (to get into, or put into, a stated condition or position, slowly and gradually: The wheel worked loose.) losa/losna smám saman
    7) (to make by craftsmanship: The ornaments had been worked in gold.) vinna, móta
    - - work
    - workable
    - worker
    - works
    3. noun plural
    1) (the mechanism (of a watch, clock etc): The works are all rusted.) gangverk
    2) (deeds, actions etc: She's devoted her life to good works.) góðverk
    - work-box
    - workbook
    - workforce
    - working class
    - working day
    - work-day
    - working hours
    - working-party
    - work-party
    - working week
    - workman
    - workmanlike
    - workmanship
    - workmate
    - workout
    - workshop
    - at work
    - get/set to work
    - go to work on
    - have one's work cut out
    - in working order
    - out of work
    - work of art
    - work off
    - work out
    - work up
    - work up to
    - work wonders

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  • 2 hard-earned

    adjective (earned by hard work or with difficulty: I deserve every penny of my hard-earned wages.) sem e-r hefur unnið til

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  • 3 donkey-work

    noun (hard, uninteresting work: We have a computer now, which saves us a lot of donkey-work.) leiðindavinna, puð

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  • 4 slog

    [sloɡ] 1. past tense, past participle - slogged; verb
    1) (to hit hard (usually without aiming carefully): She slogged him with her handbag.) slá
    2) (to make one's way with difficulty: We slogged on up the hill.) ösla
    3) (to work very hard: She has been slogging all week at the shop.) hamast
    2. noun
    1) ((a period of) hard work: months of hard slog.) púl
    2) (a hard blow: He gave the ball a slog.) högg

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  • 5 labour

    ['leibə] 1. noun
    1) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) (erfiðis)vinna
    2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) verkamenn
    3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) hríðir
    4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) Verkamannaflokkurinn
    2. verb
    1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) vinna, strita
    2) (to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.) erfiða, paufa
    - laboriously
    - laboriousness
    - labourer
    - labour court
    - labour dispute
    - labour-saving

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  • 6 fruit

    [fru:t] 1. noun
    1) (the part of a plant that produces the seed, especially when eaten as food: The fruit of the vine is the grape.) ávöxtur
    2) (a result; something gained as a result of hard work etc: the fruit of his hard work.) ávöxtur, árangur, afrakstur
    2. verb
    (to produce fruit: This tree fruits early.) bera ávöxt
    - fruition
    - fruitless
    - fruitlessly
    - fruity

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  • 7 toil

    [toil] 1. verb
    1) (to work hard and long: He toiled all day in the fields.) strita
    2) (to move with great difficulty: He toiled along the road with all his luggage.) dragnast áfram
    2. noun
    (hard work: He slept well after his hours of toil.) strit

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  • 8 drive

    1. past tense - drove; verb
    1) (to control or guide (a car etc): Do you want to drive (the car), or shall I?) aka, keyra
    2) (to take, bring etc in a car: My mother is driving me to the airport.) flytja (e-n), aka (e-m)
    3) (to force or urge along: Two men and a dog were driving a herd of cattle across the road.) reka (áfram)
    4) (to hit hard: He drove a nail into the door; He drove a golf-ball from the tee.) slá, kÿla; reka nagla
    5) (to cause to work by providing the necessary power: This mill is driven by water.) knÿja
    2. noun
    1) (a journey in a car, especially for pleasure: We decided to go for a drive.) ökutúr
    2) (a private road leading from a gate to a house etc: The drive is lined with trees.) heimreið, aðkeyrsla
    3) (energy and enthusiasm: I think he has the drive needed for this job.) dugnaður, drifkraftur
    4) (a special effort: We're having a drive to save electricity.) átak; herferð
    5) (in sport, a hard stroke (with a golf-club, a cricket bat etc).) kröftugt högg; upphafshögg með trékylfu nr. 1 (í golfi)
    6) ((computers) a disk drive.)
    - driver's license
    - drive-in
    - drive-through
    - driving licence
    - be driving at
    - drive off
    - drive on

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  • 9 effort

    ['efət]
    1) (hard work; energy: Learning a foreign language requires effort; The effort of climbing the hill made the old man very tired.) átak, erfiði
    2) (a trying hard; a struggle: The government's efforts to improve the economy were unsuccessful; Please make every effort to be punctual.) tilraun, viðleitni
    3) (the result of an attempt: Your drawing was a good effort.) tilraun, viðleitni
    - effortlessly

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  • 10 slave

    [sleiv] 1. noun
    1) (a person who works for a master to whom he belongs: In the nineteenth century many Africans were sold as slaves in the United States.) þræll
    2) (a person who works very hard for someone else: He has a slave who types his letters and organizes his life for him.) vinnuþræll
    2. verb
    (to work very hard, often for another person: I've been slaving away for you all day while you sit and watch television.) þræla

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  • 11 drudge

    1. verb
    (to do dull, very hard or humble work.) púla, þræla
    2. noun
    (a person who does such work.) vinnuþræll

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  • 12 lazy

    ['leizi]
    (too inclined to avoid hard work, exercise etc: I take the bus to work as I'm too lazy to walk; Lazy people tend to become fat.) latur
    - laziness
    - lazy-bones

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  • 13 sweat

    [swet] 1. noun
    (the moisture given out through the skin: He was dripping with sweat after running so far in the heat.) sviti
    2. verb
    1) (to give out sweat: Vigorous exercise makes you sweat.) svitna
    2) (to work hard: I was sweating (away) at my work from morning till night.) sveitast, þræla
    - sweaty
    - sweatiness
    - a cold sweat

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  • 14 accent

    1. ['æksənt] noun
    1) ((a mark used to show) the stress on a syllable: The accent is on the second syllable.) áhersla
    2) (a mark used to show the pronunciation of a letter in certain languages: Put an accent on the e in début.) áherslumerki
    3) (emphasis: The accent must be on hard work.) áhersla
    4) (a special way of pronouncing words in a particular area etc: an American accent.) framburður
    2. [ək'sent] verb
    (to pronounce with stress or emphasis: The second syllable is accented.) leggja áherslu á

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  • 15 always

    ['o:lweiz]
    1) (at all times: I always work hard; I'll always remember her.) ætíð
    2) (continually or repeatedly: He is always making mistakes.) sífellt

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  • 16 application

    [æpli-]
    1) (a formal request; an act of applying: several applications for the new job; The syllabus can be obtained on application to the headmaster.) umsókn
    2) (hard work: He has got a good job through sheer application.) ástundun
    3) (an ointment etc applied to a cut, wound etc.) áburður, smyrsl

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  • 17 appreciate

    [ə'pri:ʃieit]
    1) (to be grateful for (something): I appreciate all your hard work.)
    2) (to value (someone or something) highly: Mothers are very often not appreciated.)
    3) (understand; to be aware of: I appreciate your difficulties but I cannot help.)
    4) (to increase in value: My house has appreciated (in value) considerably over the last ten years.)
    - appreciably
    - appreciation
    - appreciative
    - appreciatively

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  • 18 arduous

    (difficult; needing hard work: an arduous task.) erfiður
    - arduousness

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  • 19 averse

    [ə'və:s]
    ((with to) having a dislike for: averse to hard work.) fráhverfur, frábitinn, mótfallinn

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  • 20 backbreaking

    adjective ((of a task etc) very difficult or requiring very hard work: Digging the garden is a backbreaking job.) lÿjandi, erfiður

    English-Icelandic dictionary > backbreaking

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  • hard — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English heard; akin to Old High German hart hard, Greek kratos strength Date: before 12th century 1. a. not easily penetrated ; not easily yielding to pressure b. of cheese not capable of being… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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