Search Result for "due": pronunciation
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. that which is deserved or owed;
- Example: "give the devil his due"

2. a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership);
- Example: "the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"


ADJECTIVE (4)

1. owed and payable immediately or on demand;
- Example: "payment is due"

2. scheduled to arrive;
- Example: "the train is due in 15 minutes"

3. suitable to or expected in the circumstances;
- Example: "all due respect"
- Example: "due cause to honor them"
- Example: "a long due promotion"
- Example: "in due course"
- Example: "due esteem"
- Example: "exercising due care"

4. capable of being assigned or credited to;
- Example: "punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"
- Example: "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"
- Example: "the oversight was not imputable to him"
[syn: ascribable, due, imputable, referable]


ADVERB (1)

1. directly or exactly; straight;
- Example: "went due North"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Due \Due\, adv.
   Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Due \Due\, n.
   1. 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.
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            He will give the devil his due.       --Shak.
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            Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   2. Right; just title or claim.
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            The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep.
                                                  --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Due \Due\, a. [OF. deu, F. d[^u], p. p. of devoir to owe, fr. L.
   debere. See Debt, Habit, and cf. Duty.]
   1. Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for
      another; payable; owing and demandable.
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   2. Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable;
      becoming; appropriate; fit.
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            Her obedience, which is due to me.    --Shak.
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            With dirges due, in sad array,
            Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
                                                  --Gray.
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   3. 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.
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   4. Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the
      steamer was due yesterday.
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   5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
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            This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.
                                                  --J. D.
                                                  Forbes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Due \Due\, v. t.
   To endue. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

209 Moby Thesaurus words for "due":
   according to Hoyle, accountable, accounts payable,
   accounts receivable, acknowledgment, adequate, alleged, amount due,
   ample, anticipated, appropriate, appurtenance, arrearage, arrears,
   ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, authority,
   awaited, back, bad debts, balanced, barely sufficient, bill, bills,
   birthright, borrowing, charged, charges, chits, claim, cognizance,
   comeuppance, coming, coming to, commensurate, compensation,
   competent, condign, conjugal right, correct, corresponding, credit,
   credited, crediting, dead, dead ahead, debt, decent, decorous,
   defensible, demand, derivable from, derivational, derivative,
   deserts, deserved, deserving, direct, directly, divine right,
   droit, due north, dueness, dues, earned, enough, entitled to,
   entitlement, equal to, equitable, even, evenhanded, expected,
   explicable, faculty, fair, fair and square, financial commitment,
   fit, fitting, floating debt, foreseen, forthright, funded debt,
   good, good enough, guerdon, hoped-for, imminent, imputable,
   imputed, in a beeline, in arrear, in arrears, in line with,
   in prospect, in view, inalienable right, indebtedness, indebtment,
   interest, just, justifiable, justified, kosher, lawful, legal,
   level, liability, long-expected, lust, mature, maturity, meet,
   meet and right, merit, merited, meriting, meritorious, minimal,
   minimum, national debt, natural right, need, nice, normal,
   normative, obligation, on the horizon, outstanding,
   outstanding debt, overdue, owed, owing, payable, payment, pledge,
   plenty, plenty good enough, power, prerogative, prescription,
   presumed, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, probable,
   promised, proper, proper claim, property right, proportionate,
   prospective, public debt, putative, receivable, recognition,
   recompense, recompensing, redeemable, referable, referred to,
   repayment, reprisal, requisite, retaliation, retribution, revenge,
   reward, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rights,
   satisfaction, satisfactory, score, seemly, square, straight,
   straight across, straight ahead, straightforward, straightforwards,
   straightly, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing,
   suitable, title, traceable, uncollectibles, undeviatingly,
   unfulfilled pledge, unpaid, unsettled, unswervingly, unveeringly,
   up to, vengeance, vested interest, vested right, warrantable,
   warranted, what is owing, worthy of