treadmill – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
treadmill
n.
exercise machine comprising of an endless moving strip on which one can walk or jog for exercise without moving forward; machine which utilizes walking or running motion (by people or animals) to produce rotational motion; repetitive task, monotonous work
Treadmill
A
treadmill is a device generally for walking or running while staying in the same place. Treadmills were introduced before the development of powered
machines, to harness the power of animals or humans to do work, often a type of
mill that was operated by a person or animal treading steps of a
treadwheel to grind grain. In later times, treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to hard labour in prisons. The terms
treadmill and
treadwheel were used interchangeably for the power and punishment mechanisms.
treadmill
Noun
1. an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place
(hypernym) exercise device
2. a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps
(synonym) treadwheel, tread-wheel
(hypernym) mill, grinder
3. a job involving drudgery and confinement
(synonym) salt mine
(hypernym) occupation, business, job, line of work, line
Treadmill
(n.)
A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
treadmill
Synonyms and related words:
beat, beaten path, branks, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, chinoiserie, clockwork regularity, constancy, crank, cucking stool, daily grind, daily round, dingdong, dirty work, donkeywork, drone, drudgery, ducking stool, employment, even pace, even tenor, fag, fatigue, finger pillory, grind, groove, handiwork, handwork, humdrum, industry, invariability, irk, irksomeness, jog trot, labor, lick, lick of work, manual labor, moil, monologue, monotone, monotonousness, monotony, orderliness, pace, pillory, rat race, red tape, red-tapeism, regularity, rote, round, routine, run, rut, sameliness, sameness, scut work, singsong, slavery, smoothness, spadework, squirrel cage, stocks, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, task, tedium, the beaten track, the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill, the weary round, tiresome work, toil, track, travail, trebuchet, triangle, triangles, undeviation, undifferentiation, unvariation, wearisome sameness, well-worn groove, whipping post, wooden horse, work
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
