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DUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
That which is deserved or owed
Example:
give the devil his due
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("due" is a kind of...):
right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)
Example:
the society dropped him for non-payment of dues
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("due" is a kind of...):
fixed charge; fixed cost; fixed costs (a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Owed and payable immediately or on demand
Example:
payment is due
Classified under:
Similar:
callable (subject to a demand for payment before due date)
cod; collect (payable by the recipient on delivery)
collectable; collectible; payable (subject to or requiring payment especially as specified)
delinquent; overdue (past due; not paid at the scheduled time)
receivable (awaiting payment)
on time (payable in installments within a designated period of time)
out-of-pocket (calling for the spending of cash)
repayable (subject to repayment)
Antonym:
undue (not yet payable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suitable to or expected in the circumstances
Example:
exercising due care
Classified under:
Antonym:
undue (not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the circumstances)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Capable of being assigned or credited to
Example:
the oversight was not imputable to him
Synonyms:
ascribable; due; imputable; referable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
attributable (capable of being attributed)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Scheduled to arrive
Example:
the train is due in 15 minutes
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
expected (considered likely or probable to happen or arrive)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Directly or exactly; straight
Example:
went due North
Classified under:
Context examples:
A question about whether an individual is or has limited their activities due to urination problems.
(Activities Limited by Urination Problems, NCI Thesaurus)
Due to the presence of the secretory signal peptide expressed by Ad-sig in the vaccine construct, transfected cells may secrete a fusion protein composed of hMUC-1 and the CD40L ecd.
(Ad-sig-hMUC-1/ecdCD40L Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
There was no longer anything of tenderness due to him.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
An indication that the subject's death was due to a mishap.
(Accidental Death, NCI Thesaurus)
But I will tell you the thing in its due order.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Due to competing thermodynamic effects, however, below a certain diameter these water clusters cannot form stable ice I.
(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)
In the cities of the northern half of the state, including Porto Alegre, smoke was not noticed due to the large number of clouds.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
“The two scenarios we are working on are a cooling of the surface due to exceptional stellar activity or dust ejection towards us,” says Montargès.
(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)
Exactly, for Amy keeps me pointing due west most of the time, with only an occasional whiffle round to the south, and I haven't had an easterly spell since I was married.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
This new research was conducted to understand why, and whether this sex difference may be due to how the male and female fetuses are supported within the womb in an aged mother.
(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)
