due
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).
Base: habeō
Affixes: dē-
Inflected forms:
form: more due
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most due
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more due
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most due
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: dues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Owed or owing.
pos: adj
examples: He is due four weeks of back pay.
The amount due is just three quid.
The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.
He can wait for the amount due him.
gloss: Appropriate.
pos: adj
examples: With all due respect, you're wrong about that.
With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
gloss: Scheduled; expected.
pos: adj
examples: Rain is due this afternoon.
The train is due in five minutes.
When is your baby due?
As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
gloss: Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
pos: adj
examples: The baby is just about due.
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
gloss: Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
pos: adj
examples: The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.
the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars
Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
gloss: On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.
pos: adj
examples: The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.
gloss: Directly; exactly.
pos: adv
examples: The river runs due north for about a mile.
gloss: Deserved acknowledgment.
pos: noun
examples: Give him his due – he is a good actor.
Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
Chelsea, to give them their due, did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.
gloss: A membership fee.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
pos: noun
examples: He will give the devil his due.
Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, / Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, / Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; […]
For I am but an earthly Muse,
⁠And owning but a little art
⁠To lull with song an aching heart,
And render human love his dues; […]
gloss: Right; just title or claim.
pos: noun
examples: The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep.
Derived words: credit where credit's due
due and payable
duebill
due care and attention
due course
due date
due day
due diligence
dueful
dueness
due place
due process
due process of law
due to
duly
fall due
give credit where credit is due
in due course
in due time
make due
overdue
past due
postage due
postage-due stamp
postage due stamp
tax due
taxes due
underdue
undue
with all due respect
with due respect
give someone his due
give the devil his due
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: očekávaný
lang: Finnish
word: see laskettu aika
lang: Hungarian
word: várható