different between due vs appropriate

English

Etymology

From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin d?b?re, present active infinitive of d?be? (“I owe”), from d?- (“from”) +? habe? (“I have”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dyo?o, jo?o, IPA^(key): /dju?/, /d?u?/
  • Homophone: dew
• (US) enPR: do?o, IPA^(key): /du/
  • Homophones: dew, do, doo
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) enPR: jo?o, IPA^(key): /d???/
  • Homophones: dew, Jew
• Rhymes: -u?

Adjective

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

1. Owed or owing.

   Synonyms: needed, owing, to be made, required

2. Appropriate.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.

3. Scheduled; expected.

   Synonyms: expected, forecast

4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.

   Synonym: expected

5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
   • 1852, John David Forbes, "Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science" in Encyclopædia Britannica

     the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars
6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

1. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.

   The river runs due north for about a mile.

Translations

Noun

due (plural dues)

1. Deserved acknowledgment.

   Give him his due — he is a good actor.
2. (in plural dues) A membership fee.
3. 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.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters

     Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.

4. Right; just title or claim.

Hyponyms

• light due

Derived terms

• give someone his due
• give the devil his due

Translations

Further reading

• due in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• due in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• due at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Deu., edu

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?, cognate with Norwegian due, Swedish duva, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du??/, [?d?u?u]
• Synonym: duge

Noun

due c (singular definite duen, plural indefinite duer)

1. pigeon, dove

Inflection

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

From du +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?due/
• Rhymes: -ue

Adverb

due

1. secondly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy/

Participle

due

1. feminine singular of the past participle of devoir

Ido

Etymology

From du (“two”) +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du?e/

Adverb

due

1. both

   Synonym: ambe (neologism)

Italian

Alternative forms

• dui (archaic, literary)
• duo m or f (archaic, literary)

Etymology

From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo, from Proto-Italic *du?, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du.e/
• Hyphenation: dù?e

Numeral

due

1. two

Noun

due m (invariable)

1. two

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Middle English

Adjective

due

1. Alternative form of dewe (“due”)

Noun

due

1. Alternative form of dewe (“due”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?. Compare Danish due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Noun

due f or m (definite singular dua or duen, indefinite plural duer, definite plural duene)

1. dove, pigeon, culver (bird)

   Hyponym: duestegg

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *du? (“two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh? (“two”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du??/
• Rhymes: -u??
• Hyphenation: du?e

Adverb

due

1. Only used in a due (“indicating two musicians or sections play together”)

References

• “due” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?. Compare Danish due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²d???/

Noun

due f (definite singular dua, indefinite plural duer, definite plural duene)

1. A bird of the family Columbidae, the pigeons and doves.

Derived terms

References

• “due” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Common contraction of du (“you (sing.)”) and e, colloquial pronunciation spelling of är (“are”).

Pronunciation

Contraction

due

1. (nonstandard, text messaging, Internet slang) ur, you're, you are

English

Etymology

From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
• (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
• (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/

Adjective

appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)

1. Suitable or fit; proper.
   • 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster

     in its strict and appropriate meaning

   • 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome

     appropriate acts of divine worship
2. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
3. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Synonyms

• (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable

Antonyms

• (all senses): inappropriate

Derived terms

• appropriateness

Related terms

• proper
• property

Translations

Verb

appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:

     Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.

   • 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

     Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.

2. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
3. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
   • 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"

     “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.

4. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
• (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart

Translations

Further reading

• appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Adjective

appropriate f pl

1. feminine plural of appropriato