Relaxation vs. Travail — What's the Difference?

The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed.

Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil.

Refreshment of body or mind; recreation

Tribulation or agony; anguish.

A loosening or slackening.

The labor of childbirth.

A reduction in strictness or severity.

To work strenuously; toil.

(Physiology) The lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers.

To be in the labor of childbirth.

(Physics) The return or adjustment of a system to equilibrium following displacement or abrupt change.

(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.

(Mathematics) A method of solving equations in which the errors resulting from an initial approximation are reduced by succeeding approximations until all errors are within specified limits.

Specifically, the labor of childbirth.

The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.

An act of working; labor US, labour British.

A diminution of tone, tension, or firmness; specifically in pathology: a looseness; a diminution of the natural and healthy tone of parts.

(obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.

Remission or abatement of rigor.

Obsolete form of travel

Remission of attention or application.

To toil.

Unbending; recreation; a state or occupation intended to give mental or bodily relief after effort.

To go through the labor of childbirth.

(physics) The transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule from a higher energy level to a lower one; the opposite of excitation

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

(music) The release following musical tension.

Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

Same as Travois.

Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement.

To labor with pain; to toil.

(physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

(physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance

To harass; to tire.

A state of refreshing tranquility

Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child;

An occurrence of control or strength weakening;

Use of physical or mental energy; hard work;

Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);

Work hard;

A method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount

The act of making less strict