1) Albatross 2) Annoyance 3) Ball and chain 4) Concern 5) Cross to bear 6) Dead weight 7) Encumber 8) Encumbrance 9) Exclusively Anglo word 10) Exclusively Saxon word 11) French word used in English 12) Get in the way 13) Hamper 14) Headache 15) Heavy load 16) Hinder 17) Impede 18) Incumbrance 19) Load
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1) Bane 2) Burthen 3) Cargo 4) Chore 5) Contents 6) Cumber 7) Cumbrance 8) Debt 9) Encumber 10) Encumbrance 11) Fardel 12) Force 13) Gist 14) Gravity 15) Hardship 16) Heaviness 17) Incubus 18) Lade 19) Load 20) Millstone 21) On us 22) Overload 23) Repression 24) Responsibility 25) Saddle 26) Stress
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- an onerous or difficult concern
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
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n. anything that results in a restrictive load upon something. This is not meant in a tangible sense, but includes a "burden" on interstate commerce (which is any matter which limits, restricts or is onerous such as a license or fee for passage), and "burdens" on land such as zoning restrictions or the right of a neighbor to pass over the property ...
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[music] In music, the burden is an archaic term for the drone or bass in some musical instruments, and the pipe or part that plays it, such as a bagpipe drone or pedal point in an organ. Burden also refers to a part of a song that is repeated at the end of each stanza, such as the chorus or refrain. The term comes from the French bourdon, a...
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the choric line or lines that signal the end or the beginning of a stanza in a carol or hymn.
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• (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds. • (n.) The drone of a bagpipe. • (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. • (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). • (n.) A birth. &bul...
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(from the article `mining`) Holes are drilled in special patterns so that blasting produces the types of fragmentation desired for the subsequent loading, hauling, and crushing ...
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(from the article `refrain`) ...in literature as varied as ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Latin verse, popular ballads, and Renaissance and Romantic lyrics. Three common refrains are ...
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1. To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load. 'I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened.' (2 Cor. Viii. 13) ... 2. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. 'My burdened heart would break.' (Shak) ... 3. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or p...
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(bur´dәn) load. body burden chemicals stored in the body that may be detected by analysis.
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(n) Burden is the responsibility arising out of an obligation towards another party by a legal provision, social custom, morel responsibility etc to do some act or achieve certain results. Eg. Burden to look after the minor child, Burden to prove the allegation made against others.
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The choric line or lines that signal the end or the beginning of a stanza in a carol or hymn.
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Bur'den (bûr'd'n)
noun [ Middle English
burdoun the bass in music, French
bourdon ; confer Late Latin
burdo drone, a long organ pipe, a staff, a mule. Prob. of imitative origin. Confer
Bourdon .]
1. The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end...
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Bur'den noun [ See
Burdon .] A club. [ Obsolete]
Spenser. Found on
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Bur'den transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Burdened ;
present participle & verbal noun Burdening ]
1. To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load. « I mean not that other men...
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Bur'den (bû'd'n) noun [ Written also burthen .] [ Middle English burden , burthen , birthen , birden , Anglo-Saxon byrðen ; akin to Icelandic byrði , Danish byrde , Swedish börda , German bürde , Old High German burdi
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A duty or obligation, or anything that restricts an activity or use. This can be intangible -- for example, a burden on land such as a zoning restriction or the right of a neighbor to pass over the property to reach his home (easement).
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Chorus or refrain of a song/poem.
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measure of fish
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Load imposed by an electronic or electrical device on the measured input circuit, expressed in volt-amps.
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encumbrance noun an onerous or difficult concern; `the burden of responsibility`; `that`s a load off my mind`
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noun the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
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that which is carried; load: a horse's burden of rider and pack. · that which is borne with difficulty; obligation; onus: the burden of leadership. · · the weight of a ship's cargo. · the carrying capacity of a ship.
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[SAT terms] an onerous or difficult concern
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