Job vs. Lob — What's the Difference?

A job, employment, work or occupation, is a person's role in society. More specifically, a job is an activity, often regular and often performed in exchange for payment ("for a living").

To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc

A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession

To hit a ball in a high arc.

A position of employment

To move heavily or clumsily.

A task that must be done

A ball hit, thrown, or propelled in a high arc.

A specified duty or responsibility

(Slang)A clumsy dull person; a lout.

(Informal) A difficult or strenuous task

(transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.

A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee

To throw.

The object to be worked on

To put, place.

Something resulting from or produced by work

To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.

An operation done to improve one's appearance, or the result of such an operation. Often used in combination

To let fall heavily or lazily.

(Computers) A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.

A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.

(Informal) A state of affairs

A lump.

(Informal) A criminal act, especially a robbery

(obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.

(Informal) An example of a specified type, especially of something made or constructed. Often used in combination

A clumsy person.

A jab.

The person who comes last in a race.

See Table at Bible.

A lob-worm.

To work at odd jobs.

A fish, the European pollock.

To work by the piece.

A dull, heavy person.

To act as a jobber.

Something thick and heavy.

To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.

The European pollock.

To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.

The act of lobbing;

To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.

To let fall heavily or lazily.

To jab or make a jab.

To propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy.

A task.

An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc

An economic role for which a person is paid.

The act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc

(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

Propel in a high arc;

(in noun compounds) A sex act.

(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

(colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.

(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

(intransitive) To work as a jobber.

To take the loss.

To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

(intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

To hire or let in periods of service.

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.

A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a great job on the David statue.

A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See job control language.

The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man.

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.

To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.

To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;

The performance of a piece of work;

The responsibility to do something;

A workplace; as in the expression

An object worked on; a result produced by working;

A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved;

A damaging piece of work;

A crime (especially a robbery);

A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

Profit privately from public office and official business

Arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Work occasionally;

Invest at a risk;