(n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
(n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
(n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
(n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
(n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
(n.) A birth.
(v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
(v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
(v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
(n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
(n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
(n.) A club.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(3) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
(4) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
(5) Economic burdens for postmarketing research should be shared jointly by the research-oriented and generic drug companies.
(6) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(7) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
(8) The analysis indicated a high cost burden for families in all disease categories studied, although a lack of uniformity in data presentation and in the variables studied prevented specific generalizations to be made about the numbers or characteristics of families with high costs.
(9) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(10) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
(11) The aim of the study was to find whether treatment would result in an improvement of cognition, of functioning in daily life, decrease of behavioural disturbances, and decrease in burden experienced by the carers.
(12) Lymph proliferative disorders with a high mitotic rate, and large tumor burden, regardless of histologic features, should be treated prophylactically against tumor lysis if regrowth between cycles occurs.
(13) These data indicate that, compared with animals at sea level, animals at altitude have an increased body burden of COHb and will attain the COHb level associated with the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for CO more quickly when breathing CO.
(14) Macro-epidemiology is concerned with the absolute and relative contributions of particular causes or diseases to the overall burden of ill-health in a population.
(15) Communicable diseases represent a considerable burden in terms of suffering and costs.
(16) This is indirect evidence suggesting that mercury from dental amalgam fillings may contribute to the body burden of mercury in the brain.
(17) The gender-specific kinship relationship of patients and their care providers has not generally been investigated in studies of caregiver burden and well-being.
(18) In predicting response to therapy, poor prognostic factors included large tumor burdens, advanced disease stage, and chemotherapy-resistant tumors.
(19) Radical postoperative irradiation (A) is burdened by 3 serious complications and a considerably higher amount of complaints.
(20) MMC and 5-FU did not show significant activity against large tumor burden, while a relatively good activity was detected in patients with minimal disease.
Duty
Definition:
(n.) That which is due; payment.
(n.) That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
(n.) Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
(n.) Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
(n.) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
(n.) 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).
(n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) Uninfected people's general rights to protection are considered, and health professionals' and authorities' rights and duties are given more detailed attention.
(3) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(4) With SH, blood flow at low and moderate Pdi was limited at duty cycles greater than 0.3 and 0.1, respectively.
(5) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.
(6) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(7) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(8) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(9) Approximately one third of all students said that ticks had a significant or very significant impact on duty performance.
(10) The fact that Line of Duty is ranked among the best TV fiction for years suggests there is no crisis with the channel.
(11) Revenue from tobacco duty in 2011-12 was £9.55bn, up from £8.09bn in 2007-08.
(12) "I have a brilliant staff and we have a duty to serve our readers and will continue to do that.
(13) If we’ve a duty to pass folk music on, we should also bring it up to date and make it relevant to our times,” he says.
(14) He suggests that doctors and nurses who provide terminal care be selected for psychological suitability, be trained in communication, receive adequate ongoing support and definition of their roles, and rotate periodically to less stressful duties.
(15) We have a moral duty to conserve them and to educate people about their habitat, health and the threats they face."
(16) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
(17) Currently, anyone buying a property for £175,000 or less avoids paying 1% stamp duty.
(18) In March-May 1988, we collected data on enrollment of 1,445 Army families with grade school children in the Active Duty Dependents Dental Insurance Plan at two Army posts.
(19) Dave Couvertier, an FBI spokesman, confirmed only that "the agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties" and said he expected to be able to release further details of the incident later on Wednesday.
(20) This is not about the BBC exercising its charter duties of impartiality, as they maintain.