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Due vs Verge - What's the difference?

due | verge |

As adjectives the difference between due and verge

is that due is owed or owing while verge is ribbed, veined.

As an adverb due

is (used with compass directions) directly; exactly.

As a noun due

is deserved acknowledgment.

As a verb verge 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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    verge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as (etyl) dedeinz la verge ), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  • # The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge .
  • An edge or border.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theoryimplies an absurdity.
  • *(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
  • *:But on the horizon's verge descried, / Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.
  • *
  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • # The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street; a tree lawn.
  • #(lb) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
  • #:
  • (lb) The phallus.
  • #(lb) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
  • An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
  • A circumference; a circle; a ring.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.
  • (lb) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  • :
  • (lb) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
  • :
  • (lb) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

    • Synonyms

    * (strip of land between street and sidewalk) see list at (m)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (compare versus); strongly influenced by the above noun.

    Verb

    (verg)
  • To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
    • Eating blowfish verges on insanity.

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