Burden (n.) That which is borne or carried |
Burden (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty |
Burden (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry |
Burden (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. |
Burden (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. |
Burden (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities |
Burden (n.) A birth. |
Burden (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative) |
Burden (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying |
Burden (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden |
Burden (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza |
Burden (n.) The drone of a bagpipe. |
Burden (n.) A club. |
Counter weight (n.) A counterpoise. |
Dead (a.) Deprived of life |
Dead (a.) Destitute of life |
Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality |
Dead (a.) Still as death |
Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound |
Dead (a.) Unproductive |
Dead (a.) Lacking spirit |
Dead (a.) Monotonous or unvaried |
Dead (a.) Sure as death |
Dead (a.) Bringing death |
Dead (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality |
Dead (a.) Flat |
Dead (a.) Not brilliant |
Dead (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen |
Dead (a.) Not imparting motion or power |
Dead (adv.) To a degree resembling death |
Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time |
Dead (n.) One who is dead |
Dead (v. t.) To make dead |
Dead (v. i.) To die |
Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7. |
Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard |
Dead-hearted (a.) Having a dull, faint heart |
Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. |
Dead-reckoning (n.) See under Dead, a. |
Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil |
Excess (n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits |
Excess (n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite |
Excess (n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another |
Loss (v. t.) The act of losing |
Loss (v. t.) The state of losing or having lost |
Loss (v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted |
Loss (v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed |
Loss (v. t.) Failure to gain or win |
Loss (v. t.) Failure to use advantageously |
Loss (v. t.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property. |
loss | the act of losing someone or something, everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock |
dead-man's float prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
weight gaining | bodybuilding that increases muscle mass and body weight |
dead reckoning | navigation without the aid of celestial observations |
Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
overindulgence excess | excessive indulgence, the child was spoiled by overindulgence |
burden of proof | the duty of proving a disputed charge |
white man's burden | the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects |
beast of burden jument | an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
cul cul de sac dead end | a passage with access only at one end |
dead-air space | an unventilated area where no air circulates |
dead axle | an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it |
dead load | a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself |
drawing card loss leader leader | a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers |
load loading burden | weight to be borne or conveyed |
morgue mortuary dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
sash weight | a counterweight for a sliding sash |
weight | an artifact that is heavy |
weight free weight exercising weight | sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting, it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms |
atomic mass atomic weight relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
molecular weight relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
equivalent equivalent weight combining weight eq | the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element, the standard is for oxygen |
weight | the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity |
body weight | the weight of a person's body |
reporting weight | a person's body weight (as an athlete's) at the beginning of the season (when first reporting for practice) |
dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
throw-weight | the weight of the payload of a missile (not including the weight of the rocket) |
dead center dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
excess excessiveness inordinateness | immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits |
excess surplus surplusage nimiety | a quantity much larger than is needed |
loss deprivation | the disadvantage that results from losing something, his loss of credibility led to his resignation, losing him is no great deprivation |
weight weightiness | the relative importance granted to something, his opinion carries great weight, the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed |
dead hand dead hand of the past mortmain | the oppressive influence of past events or decisions |
body dead body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person, they found the body in the lake |
amnesia memory loss blackout | partial or total loss of memory, he has a total blackout for events of the evening |
guess guesswork guessing shot dead reckoning | an estimate based on little or no information |
burden load encumbrance incumbrance onus | an onerous or difficult concern, the burden of responsibility, that's a load off my mind |
dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
burden | the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse |
dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
Dead Sea scrolls | (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late s, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus |
stop order stop-loss order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level |
effect essence burden core gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
dead letter dead mail | mail that can neither be delivered nor returned |
funeral march dead march | a slow march to be played for funeral processions |
dead metaphor frozen metaphor | a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake') |
loss | the experience of losing a loved one, he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather |
passing loss departure exit expiration going release | euphemistic expressions for death, thousands mourned his passing |
personnel casualty loss | military personnel lost by death or capture |