Due
[djuː] or [du]
Definition
(noun.) that which is deserved or owed; 'give the devil his due'.
(noun.) a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership); 'the society dropped him for non-payment of dues'.
(adj.) owed and payable immediately or on demand; 'payment is due' .
(adj.) suitable to or expected in the circumstances; 'all due respect'; 'due cause to honor them'; 'a long due promotion'; 'in due course'; 'due esteem'; 'exercising due care' .
(adj.) scheduled to arrive; 'the train is due in 15 minutes' .
(adv.) directly or exactly; straight; 'went due North'.
Inputed by Gustav--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
(a.) Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.
(a.) Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.
(a.) Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.
(a.) Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
(adv.) Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.
(n.) That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.
(n.) Right; just title or claim.
(v. t.) To endue.
Inputed by Kari
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Owed, to be paid.[2]. Proper, fit, suitable, appropriate, becoming, befitting.[3]. Owing, to be ascribed.
n. [1]. Debt, what is due.[2]. Right, just title, lawful claim.
ad. Directly, exactly.
Checked by Abram
Definition
adj. owed: that ought to be paid or done to another: proper: appointed under engagement to be ready arrive &c.—adv. exactly: directly.—n. that which is owed: what one has a right to: perquisite: fee or tribute.—adj. Due′ful (Spens.) proper fit.—Give the devil his due to give a fair hearing or fair-play to one of notorious character.
v.t. (Shak.) to endue.
Checker: Otis
Examples
- The sign Bell out of order is usually due to the fact that the battery is either temporarily or permanently exhausted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The quarter is not due till Christmas, but you may pay it, and have done with it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Many of them are aimed at gas, and there are several grim summaries of death and fires due to gas-leaks or explosions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Zat Arras will permit you in due time to reflect further upon the magnanimous offer he has made you. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- When the notes were due, a messenger came around from the bank with the note and a protest pinned to it for $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That is due to the change of the direction of the light after it enters the water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But further precaution was still due to the sweat of this honest fellow's brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This was mainly due to Arkwright, a contemporary of Hargreaves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Let England's priests have their due. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If he has any expectations it is due to the fact that I have never wasted money, and I do not propose to begin to do so now. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The necessity for this was due to the many radical variations made from accepted methods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Six of those last-named little promissory notes, all due on the same day, Ben, and all intrusted to me! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When she spoke to him, he listened, and in due course answered, but never looked at her, that I could see. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He is a man who makes friends of those under him by his consideration of their wants and their dues. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Wouldst cheat the mysterious Issus, Goddess of Death, of her just dues? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I am, perhaps, encroaching upon the next dues, but the winter is likely to be severe, and our poor old people must be helped. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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