Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - treadmill
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Treadmill
treadmill
noun Date: 1822 1. a. a mill worked by persons treading on steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis and used formerly in prison punishment b. a mill worked by an animal treading an endless belt c. a device having an endless belt on which an individual walks or runs in place for exercise or physiological testing 2. a wearisome or monotonous routine resembling continued activity on a ~ the office ~
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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. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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(treadmills) 1. You can refer to a task or a job as a treadmill when you have to keep doing it although it is unpleasant and exhausting. Mr Stocks can expect a gruelling week on the publicity treadmill. N-COUNT: usu sing 2. A treadmill is a piece of equipment, for example an exercise machine, consisting of a wheel with steps around its edge or a continuous moving belt. The weight of a person or animal walking on it causes the wheel or belt to turn. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 work or a way of life that seems very boring because you always have to do the same things 2 a mill1 (1) worked in the past by prisoners treading on steps fixed to a very large wheel ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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