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Due vs Amid - What's the difference?

due | amid |

As nouns the difference between due and amid

is that due is deserved acknowledgment while amid is amide.

As an adjective due

is owed or owing.

As an adverb due

is (used with compass directions) directly; exactly.

due

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Owed or owing.
  • Appropriate.
  • * Gray
    • With dirges due , in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
  • Scheduled; expected.
  • Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
  • Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
  • * J. D. Forbes
    • This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother

    Synonyms

    * (owed or owing) needed, owing, to be made, required * (appropriate) * expected, forecast * (having reached the scheduled or natural time) expected

    Derived terms

    * driving without due care and attention * due date * due to * in due time * taxes due * with all due respect

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.
    • The river runs due north for about a mile.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Deserved acknowledgment.
    • Give him his due — he is a good actor.
  • * {{quote-news, author=Daniel Taylor, title=David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=31 January 2015 citation
    • , passage=Chelsea, to give them their due , did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.}}
  • (in plural dues ) A membership fee.
  • That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He will give the devil his due .
  • * Tennyson
    • Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.
  • Right; just title or claim.
  • * Milton
    • The key of this infernal pit by due I keep.

    Derived terms

    * give someone his due * give the devil his due

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    Anagrams

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    Alternative forms

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    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Surrounded by; in the middle of; in the center of.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2014
    • , date=November 14 , author=Stephen Halliday , title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.}}

    Synonyms

    * amongst * among

    See also

    * amidst

    Anagrams

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