Owing
['əʊɪŋ] or ['oɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Owe
(P. p. & a.) Had or held under obligation of paying; due.
(P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Due.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Due, imputable, ascribable, attributable
ANT:Casually, perchance, by_chance, by_accident
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Definition
adj. due: that has to be paid (to): happening as a consequence of: imputable to.
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Examples
- It slid from its balance, owing to the change in its course against the currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You have saved my life: I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The T'other Governor he's always joked his jokes agin me, owing, as I believe, to my being a honest man as gets my living by the sweat of my brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The organization was crude, the steam-engineering talent poor, and owing to the impossibility of getting any considerable capital subscribed, the plants were put in as cheaply as possible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He knew how much he had to do--more than his usual work, owing to the commotion of the day before. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It circled (owing to the guys of one wing being loose) to the right, completing two circles and beginning a third as it advanced; so that the whole course had the form of a spiral. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But this great naval power could not, in either of those wars, be owing to the act of navigation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Even in that direction, owing to the overhanging blades of corn, the view was not extensive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There had been a split in the Cabinet; the minister for Education had resigned owing to adverse criticism. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Food was brought me at intervals but owing to the utter darkness of the place I do not know whether I lay there days, or weeks, or months. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- My daughter reminded me of Mr. Candy's illness, owing (as you may remember) to the chill he had caught on the night of the dinner-party. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Whether their fanaticism for number was owing to the influence of Egyptian priests or had an Oriental origin, it gave to the Pythagoreans an enthusiasm for pure mathematics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- At the end of one minute and twenty seconds the propellers began to slow down owing to the exhaustion of fuel. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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