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duty
English
Etymology
From Middle English duete, from Middle English dewe) + Middle English -te, (borrowed from Old French -te from Latin -t?tem, accusative masculine singular of -t?s). Akin to due + -ty (Alternative form of -ity).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?dju?ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /du?ti/
- Rhymes: -u?ti
- Homophone: doody (for some speakers)
Noun
duty (countable and uncountable, plural duties)
- That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
- 1805, 21 October, Horatio Nelson
- England expects that every man will do his duty.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- 1805, 21 October, Horatio Nelson
- The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.
- A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
- customs duty; excise duty
- (obsolete) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XX:
- Take that which is thy duty, and goo thy waye.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XX:
- (obsolete) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
- The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with "duty": public, private, moral, legal, social, double, civic, contractual, political, judicial, etc.
Synonyms
- (that which one is obligated to do): obligation
Antonyms
- duty-free (taxes)
- (that which one is obligated to do): right
Derived terms
Related terms
- due
Translations
Further reading
- duty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- duty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- duty at OneLook Dictionary Search
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?dut?]
Participle
duty
- past passive participle of du?
Declension
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borrow
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?r??, IPA(key): /?b????/
- (General American) enPR: bär??, IPA(key): /?b??o?/
- (Canada) enPR: bôr??, IPA(key): /?b??o?/
- Rhymes: -????
Etymology 1
From Middle English borwen, bor?ien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-Germanic *burg?n? (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erg?- (“to take care”). Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.
Alternative forms
- boro (Jamaican English)
Verb
borrow (third-person singular simple present borrows, present participle borrowing, simple past and past participle borrowed)
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- (Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
- (double transitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- To feign or counterfeit.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- Traditional, "Young Beichan" (Child ballad 53)
- But if ony maiden would borrow me,
- I would wed her wi' a ring,
- And a' my land and a' my houses,
- They should a' be at her command.
- Traditional, "Young Beichan" (Child ballad 53)
- (informal) To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
Synonyms
- (adopt): adopt, use
Antonyms
- (receive temporarily): give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership)
- (in arithmetic): carry (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of addition)
Derived terms
- borrowed time
- borrower
Translations
Noun
borrow (plural borrows)
- (golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
- 1979, The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin
- As previously indicated, slurry used for construction of the slurry cutoff trench at Beaver Creek Dam was produced with natural clays and clay tills from local borrows.
- 1979, The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin
- (programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English borwe, borgh, from Old English borh, borg, from Proto-Germanic *burg?n? (“to borrow, lend”) (related to Etymology 1, above).
Noun
borrow (plural borrows)
- (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
- (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
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