Burden vs Clog - What's the difference?

Burden is a related term of clog.

As nouns the difference between burden and clog

is that burden is while clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

As a verb clog is

to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

burden

English

(wikipedia burden)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from (etyl) byrden, .

Alternative forms

* burthen (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

A heavy load.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

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 .

A responsibility, onus.

A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

* Jonathan Swift

Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.

The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.

a ship of a hundred tons burden

(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.

(Raymond)

A fixed quantity of certain commodities.

A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.

(obsolete, rare) A birth.

That bore thee at a burden two fair sons

Verb

(en verb)

To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word ).

to burden a nation with taxes

* Bible, 2 Corinthians viii. 13

I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened .

* Shakespeare

My burdened heart would break.

To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

* Coleridge

It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell.

Derived terms

* burdensome * beast of burden

Etymology 2

From (etyl) bordon. See bourdon.

Noun

(en noun)

(music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.

* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2

[...] Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

* 1846 ,

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.

The drone of a bagpipe.

(Ruddiman)

(obsolete) Theme, core idea.

Anagrams

clog

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia clog)

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.

A blockage.

The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.

(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.

* 1987 , :

Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.

A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.

* Hudibras

As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .

* Tennyson

A clog of lead was round my feet.

That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

* Burke

All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

Derived terms

* clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

Verb

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

Hair is clogging the drainpipe.

The roads are clogged up with traffic.

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

* Dryden

The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.

To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

* Addison

The commodities are clogged with impositions.

* Shakespeare

You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.