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Definitions: Burden |
BurdenNoun1. An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind". 2. Weight to be borne or conveyed. 3. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. 4. The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse. Verb1. Weight down with a load. 2. Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "burden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Burden (1.) A load of any kind (Ex. 23:5). (2.) A severe task (Ex. 2:11). (3.) A difficult duty, requiring effort (Ex. 18:22). (4.) A prophecy of a calamitous or disastrous nature (Isa. 13:1; 17:1; Hab. 1:1, etc.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Business | Costs which can only be indirectly apportioned, possibly by means of a cost centre, to the production costs of goods or services. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you will be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice, caused from favoritism shown your enemies by those in power. But to struggle free from it, you will climb to the topmost heights of success. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | The horizontal distance from a face back to the first row of drill holes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Strictly, the materials other than coke in a blast furnace charge; in practice, a synonym for stock, but stock is usually restricted to the burden materials in the furnace, while burden applies to the materials both in and outside the furnace. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Burden:all types of rock or earthy materials overlying bedrock; cover:the thickness of rock, solid or incoherent, between the working and the surface or seabed; overburden:used by geologists and engineers in several different senses; by some, it is used to designate material of any nature, consolidated or unconsolidated, that overlies a deposit of useful materials, ores or coal, especially those deposits that are mined from the surface by open cuts; for others, overburden designates only loose soil, sand, gravel etc. that lies above the bedrock. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. The distance from the borehole and the nearest free face or distance between boreholes measured perpendicular to the spacing (usually perpendicular to the free face). b. All types of rock or earthy materials overlying bedrock. See also:cover; mantle; overburden c. Valueless material overlying ore, esp. that removed by stripping. Frequently called overburden d. The resistance that an explosive charge must overcome in breaking the rock adjacent to a drill hole in mining e. The tonnage or cubic yards of rock, ore, or coal that an explosive charge is expected to break f. The distance between the charge and the free face of the material to be blasted g. See:line of least resistance h. The charge of a blast furnace exclusive of the fuel; also, the ratio ofthe ore to the total charge. (references) | |
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Synonyms: BurdenSynonyms: core (n), effect (n), encumbrance (n), essence (n), gist (n), incumbrance (n), load (n), loading (n), onus (n), burthen (v), charge (v), saddle (v), weight (v), weight down (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: fill-in (metallurgy). |
| Antonym: unburden (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agent | Workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout. |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
Business | Be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full; (activity). |
Carrier | Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud. |
Contents | Noun: contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of, basket of; (receptacle) of; inside.; stuffing, ullage. |
Gravity | Noun: gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness. Adjective: specific gravity; pondorosity, pressure, load; burden, burthen; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of. |
Hindrance | Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. |
Memory | Commit to memory, memorize; con over, con; fix in the memory, rivet in the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory, stamp in the memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in the memory, treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in the memory, enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory with, stuff the memory with, burden the memory with. |
Pain | Noun: painfulness; Adjective: trouble, care; (pain); trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness. |
Care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load. | |
Redundancy | Accumulation; (store); heap; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden. |
Repetition | Chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal; rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation. |
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Screenplays | Men speak conveniently of love when it serves their purpose, and when it doesn't, it is a burden to them. (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham and John Watson.) Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm) The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and strength - only because they are of another race, another creed. (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: Charles Chaplin) You're short, your bellybutton sticks out too far, and you're a terrible burden on your poor mother. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) Don't ask for something if it's a burden to ya if ya get it. (Hoffa; writing credit: David Mamet) | |
Lyrics | Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden when my back is sturdy and strong? (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs) Weighed down like a beast of burden about to break your back. (Just Can't Last; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) | |
Clever | When God allows a burden to be put upon you, He will put His arms underneath you to help you carry it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | They Called It White Man's Burden (1957) The Burden of Race (1921) When Will He Throw Off This Burden (1917) A Sister's Burden (1915) The Burden Bearer (1915) | |
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 | Armor is heavy, yet is a proud burden and a man standeth straight in it. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The real burden is on the heart. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | All right in its place, but it's a big burden for the U.S. mail to carry. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Washington frees itself of burden of snow. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Each shell must have proper identification as it travels along the production line. This operation imposes no undue burden on the trained workers of a converted automobile plant where the shells are being made. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Burden. Portrait painting of boy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aeschylus | A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. |
Dag Hammarskjold | An error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth. |
George Herbert | None knows the weight of another's burden. |
Hosea Ballou | Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden. |
Max Muller | No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. |
Ovid | The burden which is well borne becomes light. |
The Talmud | The burden is equal to the horse's strength. |
Voltaire | What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon. |
William Shakespeare | Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | The people generally ill treated, and contrary to right, will be ready upon any occasion to ease themselves of a burden that sits heavy upon them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by increase of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of the machinery, etc. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | As an exception to the above provision and inasmuch as in 1871 Germany refused to undertake any portion of the burden of the French debt, France shall be, in respect of Alsace-Lorraine, exempt from any payment under Article 254. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (reference) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | Where an interrogation is conducted without the presence of an attorney and a statement is taken, a heavy burden rests on the Government to demonstrate that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his right to counsel. (reference) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | One brief sigh sufficed to carry off the entire burden of these dismal reminiscences. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The least burden would make him lose his centre of gravity and he would fall. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | AD puts a heavy economic burden on society. (references) | |
Obesity creates an enormous psychological burden. (references) | ||
The burden of CVD rests most heavily on the least active. (references) | ||
Business | This requirement has turned into a burden because of corruption. (references) | |
This has put an even greater burden on the bidder early in the decision cycle. (references) | ||
However, the burden of oral disease has become concentrated in a minority of children. (references) | ||
Children | Kenya | These are a heavy burden on most families. (references) |
Zimbabwe | At the household level, there is an increased burden on the extended family, which has traditional responsibility for caring for orphans. (references) | |
India | Women's rights groups point out that the burden of providing girls with an adequate dowry is one factor that makes daughters less desirable. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bosnia and Herzegovina | As a result, most minority returnees were elderly, which placed a burden on receiving municipalities. (references) |
Mongolia | The court system places the burden of proof on the defendants in libel and slander cases, which stifles the free media. (references) | |
Sweden | In particular NGO's were critical of the unclear burden of proof and the lack of an appeals process to an independent court. (references) | |
Economic History | Eritrea | This generated a huge economic burden on the country. (references) |
Mexico | Other factors listed include the tax burden and labor difficulties. (references) | |
Pakistan | External imbalance has left Pakistan with a growing foreign debt burden. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | They argue that the act effectively reverses the burden of proof in suspected terrorism cases and fails to provide adequate safeguards against abuse by law enforcement officials. (references) |
India | Defendants are allowed to question witnesses against them, present their own witnesses and evidence, and have access to government evidence held against them; however, under the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, preventive detention can be authorized for up to 180 days, effectively shifting the burden of proof to the defendant. (references) | |
India | If enacted, they would provide for special courts to try offenses, place the burden of proof at the bail stage on the accused, make confessions to a police officer of the rank of superintendent of police admissible as evidence, extend the period of remand from 15 to 60 days, and set mandatory sentences for terrorism-related offenses. (references) | |
Political Economy | NICARAGUA | Importers in general face a total import tax burden of 15 to 63 percent. (references) |
ARGENTINA | Installation of an automated system in 1994 has eased the burden somewhat. (references) | |
ALGERIA | The reduction of its external debt burden has been one of Algeria's key priorities. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | In most instances, Bulgarian companies assume the full financial burden in purchasing goods. (references) |
India | When an exporter enters into a deferred payment contract, it imposes a financial burden on the exporter. (references) | |
Guyana | Guyana continues to take steps to liberalize trade regimes; however, the current tariff and tax burden on imports is high. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | There are, however, tax incentives which can significantly lessen the effective tax burden. (references) |
Women | Morocco | The defendants in such cases bear the burden of proving their innocence. (references) |
Indonesia | Women often bear a heavier evidentiary burden than men in obtaining a divorce, especially in the Islamic-based family court system. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | While any worker may seek redress through the courts, this process places a heavy financial burden on those earning lower incomes. (references) |
Morocco | The standard for legally firing a permanent employee is "serious error" committed by the employee, and the courts set the burden of proof very high. (references) | |
Pakistan | The Hudood ordinances criminalize extramarital sexual relations and place a burden on female rape victims because testimony of female victims and witnesses carry no legal weight. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. Alas, things ain't what we should see If Eve had let that apple be; And many a feller which had ought To set with monarchses of thought, Or play some rosy little game With battle-chaps on fields of fame, Is downed by his unlucky star And hollers: "Peanuts! -- here you are!" "The Sturdy Beggar" |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | Executive Window Wiper Extraordinaire: Where Russia is stimulating their economy by slashing the socialist tax burden, Britain is going for symbolism over substance. |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | There are many areas and some whole States where good schools cannot be provided without imposing an undue local tax burden on the citizens. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | For the road has been long, the burden heavy, and the pace consistently urgent. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Many of you share the burden of this knowledge tonight with me. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The burden of catastrophic illness can be borne by very few in our society. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This year the right choice is to reduce the burden on taxpayers and provide more jobs for our people. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Kennedy spoke of the burden and glory that is freedom. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | I am heartened that we are not being asked to bear alone the financial burden of this struggle. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | My generation must not ask our children's generation to shoulder our burden. |
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| "Burden" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.37% of the time. "Burden" is used about 2,661 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.37% | 2,591 | 3,520 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.99% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,661 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "burden" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Burden | Last name | 5,000 | 2,327 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "burden". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Mesha | N/A | Biblical | Burden |
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1. Burden, KS (city, FIPS 9250) |
Expressions using "burden": be a burden ♦ be a burden on ♦ bear the burden ♦ beast of burden ♦ Body Burden ♦ burden of proof ♦ burden of taxation ♦ burden smb. with smth. ♦ burden the memory with ♦ burden with ♦ burden with debts ♦ fiscal burden ♦ heavy burden ♦ maximum permissible body burden ♦ rated burden ♦ rated burden of an energising circuit ♦ rated burden of an energizing circuit ♦ tax burden ♦ to burden ♦ ton burden ♦ unbearable burden ♦ white mans burden ♦ white man's burden. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "burden": burden-sharing. | |
Ending with "burden": debt-burden, god-burden, non-burden. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "burden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | laai (drawer, load), belaai (load), belas (load, tax). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Albanian | barrë (cart load, encumbrance, fardel, haul, jag, load, onus, pannier, pregnancy, tax), tonazh (carrying capacity, tonnage), thelb (backbone, core, crux, essence, essentiality, gist, guts, heart, hinge, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, nub, pith, point, soul, substance, sum, tenor), temë (argument, heading, subject, subject matter, theme, topic), rëndoj (aggravate, complicate, cumber, encumber, exacerbate, load, weigh, weigh down, weigh on), ngarkoj (attribute, charge, commission, cumber, delegate, encumber, entrain, entruck, freight, impose, impute, Lade, load, saddle, ship, weight), ngarkesë (arrival, batch, cargo, charge, consignment, freightage, goods, haul, lading, load, loading, shipment, stowage, tote, weight), detyrim (bond, charge, compulsion, constraint, duress, enforcement, imposition, liability, must, obligation), detyrë (assignation, assignment, business, chore, devoir, duty, exercise, job, labor, labour, mission, obligation, office, ought, place, project, seal, task, task-work, tie, trust), aftësi bartëse. (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قرار (award, chorus, decision, decree, deliverance, doom, judgement, refrain, resolution, resolve, ruling, sentence), حمل الأثقال, حمل (bear, bearing, carriage, carry, carry on, charge, conception, deck, hold, hump, knock up, lade, lamb, lifting, load, portage, pregnancy, take, tote, yeanling), حمولة السفينة (tonnage), حمولة (capacity, cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, tonnage, weight), غناء رتيب (refrain), عبء (charge, encumbrance, load, onus), الفكرة الرئيسية, ألقى عليه حملا, أثقل (charge, clog, cumber, encumber, lie, overburden, soak, surcharge, weigh down). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | товаря (charge, freight, load, pack, weight), товароподемност (carrying capacity), товар (bulk, burthen, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, freightage, goods, imposition, lading, load, loading, tax, tie, tote, weight), тежест (authority, gravity, heaviness, letterweight, load, onus, ponderability, ponderosity, pressure, solemnity, weight), основна тема, обременявам (cumber, encumber, hamper, load, lumber, overburden, saddle, weigh down, weight, weight down), бреме (burthen, charge, deadweight, drag, drain, encumbrance, exaction, fardel, freight, incubus, load, onus, tax, tie, weight), припев (chorus, refrain, undersong). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Catalan | c rrega (charge, load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "" , 负担 (Born, Borne, Burdened, Burdening), 包袱 (a bundle wrapped in cloth, cloth-wrapper, load, weight), "" (a load, a picul, responsibility, to carry, to shoulder, to take responsibility, to undertake). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Czech | břemeno (Comber, drain, encumbrance, onus, pack, weight), břímì (imposition, lift, load, onus), přítìž (ballast), obtížit (encumber). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Danish | byrde (charge, load), linie for mindste modstand (line of least resistance), last (charge, load), indirekte omkostninger (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, indirect cost, indirect costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead costs, overhead expenses, overheads), forsaetning (line of least resistance), charge (batch, brew, charge, fill, heat, melting charge, stock). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lading (cargo, charge, load), laden (charge, load), inladen (load), belasten (load, tax), beladen (load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ŝarĝo (charge, load), ŝarĝi (load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | løða (charge, load), ferma (load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گنجایش (Aptitude, Capacity, Content, Inclusion, Module), وزن (Avoirdupois, Cadence, Charge, Rhythm, Scale), تحمیل کردن (Constrain, Impose, Inflict, Protrude, Saddle, Task), سنگین بارکردن , طفل دررحم , بارمسلولیت , بارکردن (Load, Pack, Prime, Weight), بار (Audience, Brunt, Cargo, Encumbrance, Entrance, Freight, Onus). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yleiskustannus (business expenses, fixed costs, general and administrative costs, indirect costs, manufacturing overheads, overhead charges, overhead cost, overhead expenses, overheads), välillinen kustannus (indirect costs, overheads), porausreiän pohjan etäisyys rintauksen pinnasta (line of least resistance), lasti (cargo, charge, load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
French | charge (burlesque). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Frisian | fracht (charge, load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
German | last (charge, charges, costs, encumbrance, load, onerousness, onus, pack, pressure, strain, weight), belasten (afflict, be a burden on, charge, cumcumber, debit, encumber, incriminate, load, put a strain on, put pressure on, put weight on, strain, stress, stretch, tax, to encumber, to incriminate, to stress, weigh upon), refrain (chorus, refrain), ladung (batch, cargo, charge, freight, lading, load, shipment, stowage, summons), kehrreim (refrain), belastung (burdening, charge, encumbrance, incrimination, liabilities, load, load capacity, loading, pressure, putting weight on, strain, stress, tax, tie, trial, weight), belaste, beladen (burdened, encumber, freight, Lade, laden, load, load down, loaded, stowage, weighed down), bürde (charge, encumbrance, load, onus, tax, weight). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Greek | φορτίο (cargo, freight, jag, lading, load, onus, shipment). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"כבי" (aggravate, encumber, weigh down), טרח" (bother, hassle, pains, trouble), טורח, "כב"" (bother, imposition, inconvenience, troubling), כבו"" (baggage, belongings, possessions), אכף (pressure), אכפ" (pressure), טל (ballast, brunt, encumbrance, load, weight), עומס (cargo, freight, load), מועק" (depression, distress, heaviness, oppression), ל"עמיס (clog, load), י"ב (fate, imposition, impost, levy, load, lot), מטען (baggage, cargo, charge, dock, dunnage, freight, lading, load, luggage, stowage), מעמס (load, loading capacity), מעמס" (encumbrance, tax, weight), משא (bearing, carrying, load, longing, present, prophecy, stowage, tribute, utterance), משוא (load), עול (jugum, servitude, yoke, zygoma). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teher (ballast, burthen, cargo, charge, drag, encumbrance, fardel, freight, imposition, lading, liabilities, liability, load, loading, mortgage, onus, passive debts), rakomány (air cargo, bulk, cargo, charge, fraught, freight, lading, load), vminek a lényege (guts, quintessence), súly (bob, caliber, calibre, gravity, heft, load, onus, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, purport, weight), refrén (cantilena, chorus, dildo, fading, refrain, tag), nehéz sors (hard lines), megterhelés (charging, encumbrance, handicap, imposition, loading, strain), lényege vminek (body, gist, guts, prime mover, purport, quintessence). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | beban (assessment, debit, load), tanggungan (assurance, bail, dependent), membebani (assess). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Irish | ualach (charge, load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Italian | carico (airfreight, bulk, cargo, charge, charged, filled, fiscal burden, fraught, freight, lading, live, load, loaded, shipload, shipment, tax, weight), caricare (accuse, cargo, charge, download, fill, freight, Lade, load, load up, prime, strech, tackle, take on, upload, weigh down, weight, wind up). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 荷 (load), 担 (charge, responsibility), 厄介者 (dependent, hanger-on, parasite), 厄介事 (difficulty, trouble), 厄介 (bother, care, dependence, kindness, obligation, support, trouble, worry). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふた" (charge, responsibility), ふか (addition, annexation, appendage, bad, empty show, frivolity, hatching, imposition, improper, inadvisable, incubation, levity, levy, load, shark, suburban districts, unjustifiable, wealthy family, within an urban-prefecture, wrong), やっかい"と (difficulty, trouble), やっかいもの (dependent, encumbrance, hanger-on, nuisance, parasite), やっかい (bother, care, dependence, kindness, obligation, support, translating and explaining, trouble, worry). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Korean | 짐 (baggage, load, loads). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Malay | muatan (charge, load), memuati (load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Manx | ny lhie trome er, lughtey (freight, lade, load, loading, weigh down), lught (batch, batch of numbers, bulk, cargo, cast, complement, content, freight, load, train, train of personage), laadey (load, weigh down), laad (cargo, complement, consignment, load), errey (imposition, load), cur laad errey er, cur laad bart er, bart (bundle, load, loom frame, parcel, parcel of shares, truss). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | byrde. (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | karga (load). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urdenbay carga (batch, bulk, cargo, charge, charging, cloud-burst, down grade, fare, freight, freighter, job, lading, load, loading, refill, rush, task, weight), carregar (bear, carry, carrying, charge, convey, download, freight, heap, Lade, load, shot, Stoke, tamp, tote, wear). (various references) laitmotiv, împovåra (load), încãrca (bedizen, charge, encumber, glut, heap, inflate, load, load with ball, pack, pile up, prime), încãrcãturã (cargo, charge, freight, goods, load, loading, shipment, weight), încårca (charge, load), îngreuia (aggravate, encumber, load, obstruct, trouble, weight), îngreuna (cumber, load, press), durere (ache, bale, complaint, dolour, grief, hurt, mourning, pain, pinch, Ruth, sorrow, suffering, torture, trouble, woe), împovãra (cumber, encumber, glut, oppress, overload, pack, pile, weigh down, weight), greutate (arduousness, authority, avoirdupois, bother, charge, cumber, difficulty, embarrassment, encumbrance, hardness, hardship, heaviness, heft, load, poise, ponderosity, shot, trouble, weight), tonaj (tonnage), povarã (encumbrance, load, plummet, torture, weight), rãspundere (accountability, duty, liability, onus, responsibility), refren (chorus, refrain), sarcinã (assignment, capacity, charge, faggot, gestation, load, lot, mission, obligation, onus, pack, part, pregnancy, quantity, target, task, trouble, weight), subiect principal, supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), temã principalã, greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty). (various references) |
