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due | que |

As an adjective due

is owed or owing.

As an adverb due

is (used with compass directions) directly; exactly.

As a noun due

is deserved acknowledgment.

As a symbol que is

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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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    que

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rfv-sense) (lb) A former British unit of currency worth one-half of a farthing, thus one-eighth of an old penny; (lb) a farthing; a small amount of money.
  • * 1594 , John Lyly, Mother Bombie :
    • Rather praie there bee no fall of monie, for thou wilt then go for a que .
  • * 1887 , William Dunn Macray, editor, , Glossary, page 160:
    • Qu or Que, a farthing; a farthing's-worth, 39.434; 139. 1838
  • (rfv-sense)
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  • * 2012 , MW Fletcher, Project Reaper: A Max Storm novel , Andrews UK Limited (ISBN 9781782343004)
    • Max had a snooker-que in his right hand and was using it to point to detail on the diagram.
  • (rfv-sense) (dialect) cow (Halliwell )
  • *1889-1904 , (The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language) ,, p.4902
  • * 2009 December 25, Nick Cramer, in My "homemade" Italian meatball recipe - for Nick and Meir'', in soc.culture.jewish.moderated, ''Usenet :
    • Then about 1950 two German brothers who had a meat market began cooking BBQ in their market to use up left over meat. One got the idea to smoke a brisket as he was smoking sausage one weekend. He left it all weekend in his smokehouse and on Monday as they were serving their que , pork, sausage & chicken, he cut a slice
  • * 2010 September 22, Nanzi (username), in Re: Yoy guys are killing this group'', in alt.food.barbecue, ''Usenet :
    • Instead please join in the sharing of que methods and recipes, or questions.
  • * 2011 , Kathy Reichs, Spider Bones: A Novel (ISBN 145164194X), page 57
    • The back route I favor involves a long stretch on Highway 74 and brings me close enough to Lumberton for a barbeque detour. That was my target today. Being already in Lumberton, it only made sense to score some “que .”
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