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treadmill
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treadmill
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun treadmill has 3 senses
- treadmill(n = noun.artifact) Array - an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place; Array is a kind of exercise device
- treadmill(n = noun.artifact) tread-wheel, treadwheel - a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps; Array is a kind of grinder, mill, milling machinery
- treadmill(n = noun.act) salt mine - a job involving drudgery and confinement; Array is a kind of business, job, line, line of work, occupation
CIDE DICTIONARY
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
treadmill, n.
1 a device for producing motion by the weight of persons or animals stepping on movable steps on the inner surface of a revolving upright wheel.
2 monotonous routine work.
1 a device for producing motion by the weight of persons or animals stepping on movable steps on the inner surface of a revolving upright wheel.
2 monotonous routine work.
THESAURUS
treadmill
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, workROGET THESAURUS
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Scourge
N scourge, rod, cane, stick, ratan, rattan, birch, birch rod, azote, blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok, rod in pickle, switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon, whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout, cat, cat o'nine tails, rope's end, pillory, stocks, whipping post, cucking stool, ducking stool, brank, trebuchet, trebuket, triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel, chinese water torture, treadmill, crank, galleys, scaffold, block, ax, guillotine, stake, cross, gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring, death chair, electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, mecate, house of correction, goaler, jailer, executioner, electrocutioner, lyncher, hangman, headsman, Jack Ketch.
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