Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A heavy load.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- A responsibility, onus.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- (obsolete) Theme, core idea.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- (obsolete, rare) A birth.
Verbit
- (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
- To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
Esimerkit
- There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.
- Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.
- a ship of a hundred tons burden
- A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.
- That bore thee at a burden two fair sons
- to burden a nation with taxes
- I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened.
- It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell.
- My burdened heart would break.
- [...] Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
- As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.
- Running two companies at the same time is quite a burden.
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