BURDEN vs BURTHEN: NOUN
- An onerous or difficult concern
- In mining, the tops or heads of stream-work, overlying the stream of tin, and needing to be first cleansed.
- The capacity of a ship; the quantity or number of tons of freight a vessel will carry: as, a ship of 600 tons burden.
- In England, a quantity of certain commodities: as, a burden of gad-steel (that is, 120 or 180 pounds).
- Hence That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive; also, an incumbrance of any kind.
- That which is borne or carried; a load.
- A club.
- The act of bearing children; a birth.
- The amount of a disease-causing entity present in an organism.
- The weight of the cargo carried by a vessel at one time.
- The bass in music.
- The bass accompaniment to a song.
- The chorus or refrain of a composition.
- A drone, as of a bagpipe or pedal point.
- A principal or recurring idea; a theme.
- A responsibility or duty.
- A source of great worry or stress; weight.
- Something that is emotionally difficult to bear.
- Something that is carried.
- The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- Weight to be borne or conveyed
- The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
- The amount of cargo that a vessel can carry.
- A cause of worry.
- A responsibility, onus.
- A heavy load.
- A club (weapon).
- The charge of a blast-furnace.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- The duty of proving a particular position in a court of law, a failure in the performance of which duty calls for judgment against the party on whom the duty is imposed.
- An animal employed in carrying burdens.
- A birth.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- That which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells; the main topic: as, this subject was the burden of all his talk.
- The drone of a bagpipe. The song to which a dance is danced when there are no instruments.
- In music: The refrain or recurring chorus at the end of the stanzas of a ballad or song; a refrain.
- 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.
- A burden.
- An erroneous form of burden, by confusion with burden and burden.
- The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds.
- Archaic spelling of burden.
- A variant of `burden'
BURDEN vs BURTHEN: VERB
- Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- Weight down with a load
- Weight down with a load
BURDEN vs BURTHEN: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
- To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload.
- To cause difficulty or distress to; distress or oppress.
- To load or overload.
- To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
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BURDEN vs BURTHEN: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To lay or impose upon one, as a load, burden, or charge.
- Hence Figuratively, to load; oppress with anything which is borne with difficulty or trouble; surcharge: as, to burden a nation with taxes; to burden the memory with details.
- To load; lay a heavy load on; encumber with weight.
- See burden.
- Older form of burden.
BURDEN vs BURTHEN: RELATED WORDS
- Strain, Burthen, Weight down, Incumbrance, Core, Gist, Loading, Essence, Saddle, Effect, Weight, Charge, Encumbrance, Load, Onus
- Superload, Long ton, Burdener, Register ton, Cargason, Measurement ton, Dead load, Dead weight, Tonnage, Onerary, Overlade, Onerate, Weight down, Burden, Weight
BURDEN vs BURTHEN: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Hardship, Workload, Responsibility, Burdensome, Strain, Incumbrance, Core, Gist, Essence, Saddle, Effect, Weight, Charge, Load, Onus
- Displacement ton, Deadweight, Overfreight, Superload, Long ton, Register ton, Cargason, Measurement ton, Dead load, Dead weight, Onerary, Overlade, Onerate, Weight, Burden
BURDEN vs BURTHEN: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Little is known of the specific ways that transportation burden may affect family caregiversbecausecurrent family caregiver research focuses on global aspects of caregiver burden.
- The fact that defendant was required to process the data was not an undue burden, but merely the normal burden of litigation.
- This relationship was partially mediated by the caregiver burden, where higher levels of the caregiver burden were negatively associated with depressive symptoms.
- These taxes contribute to a high tax burden on the mobile sector that exceeds the burden on other sectors.
- The relator has the burden of establishing both prerequisites to mandamus relief, and this burden is a heavy one.
- The burden of proof is on the petitioner, and suspicion or possibility does not satisfy this burden.
- Resource issues of treatment adherence, burden of data collection, incorporating a health utility index, and intervention burden.
- They are supposed to take the burden off of our members, not add to their burden.
- We should not assume that objective burden measures are interpreted as being a burden for everyone.
- Caregiver burden was measured with the Zarit Burden Interview instrument.
- As for apprentices, in 1823 legislation required vessels of more than 80 tons burthen to carry indentured apprentices.
- God is necessary to salvation; for the yoak of Christ is easie, and his burthen light.
- In all other cases, the burthen of proof is supposed to lie with the affirmative.
- Arrival your wholesome burthen involves puritanical direction of your fast and employment.
- Canada is a burthen rather than a mine of THE CANADIANS.
- Why should we consent to bear more than our proper share of the common burthen?
- In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.
- Power to lay a burthen on them that had received their Doctrine.
- She ceases to be a mere beast of burthen.
- And leave the burthen of it all on thee.
BURDEN vs BURTHEN: QUESTIONS
- Who has the burden of proving psychological incapacity?
- How does underwater breathing affect respiratory burden?
- Do single fathers feel the double burden of the double burden?
- What was the outcome of the burden and Burden v UK?
- When is an evidential burden not a burden of proof?
- Are plastics a burden or burden for the medical industry?
- Is Mahadevi Verma a burden or burden on her family?
- Is family caregiving a burden or burden on the elderly?
- What is respondent burden (response and subject burden)?
- How do you calculate labor burden and inventory burden?
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