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duties
(mass) | duties
- funkcia, povinnosť |
duties
(encz) | duties,funkce Pavel Machek; Giza |
duties
(encz) | duties,povinnost Pavel Machek; Giza |
duties
(encz) | duties,povinnosti n: Zdeněk Brož |
Duties
(gcide) | Duty \Du"ty\, n.; pl. Duties. [From Due.]
1. That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material
thing.]
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When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware,
thou receivest thy duty. --Tyndale.
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2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or
refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service
morally obligatory.
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Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord,
and his country. --Hallam.
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3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of
a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
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With records sweet of duties done. --Keble.
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To employ him on the hardest and most imperative
duty. --Hallam.
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Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly
exists to do trivial things; but there may be an
obligation to do them. --C. J. Smith.
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4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and
superiors. --Shak.
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5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My
duty to you." --Shak.
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6. (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam
pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain
quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water
lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old
standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs.,
United States).
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7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of
money required by government to be paid on the
importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
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Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the
stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct
tax. [U.S.]
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Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the
cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See {Ad
valorem}.
Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an
article without reference to its value or market.
On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's
assigned task.
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DUTIES
(bouvier) | DUTIES. In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes,
embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its
more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs, (q.v.) or
imposts. (q.v.) Story, Const. Sec. 949. Vide, for the rate of duties
payable on goods and merchandise, Gord. Dig. B. 7, t. 1, c. 1; Story's L. U.
S. Index, h.t.
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duties
(mass) | duties
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civic duties
(encz) | civic duties,občanské povinnosti n: web |
duties
(encz) | duties,funkce Pavel Machek; Gizaduties,povinnost Pavel Machek; Gizaduties,povinnosti n: Zdeněk Brož |
Differential duties
(gcide) | differential \dif`fer*en"tial\, a. [Cf. F. diff['e]rentiel.]
1. Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a
difference; discriminating; special; as, differential
characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.
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For whom he produced differential favors. --Motley.
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2. (Math.) Of or pertaining to a differential, or to
differentials.
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3. (Mech.) Relating to differences of motion or leverage;
producing effects by such differences; said of mechanism.
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Differential calculus. (Math.) See under Calculus.
Differential coefficient, the limit of the ratio of the
increment of a function of a variable to the increment of
the variable itself, when these increments are made
indefinitely small.
Differential coupling, a form of slip coupling used in
light machinery to regulate at pleasure the velocity of
the connected shaft.
Differential duties (Polit. Econ.), duties which are not
imposed equally upon the same products imported from
different countries.
Differential galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer having
two coils or circuits, usually equal, through which
currents passing in opposite directions are measured by
the difference of their effect upon the needle.
Differential gearing, a train of toothed wheels, usually an
epicyclic train, so arranged as to constitute a
differential motion.
Differential motion, a mechanism in which a simple
differential combination produces such a change of motion
or force as would, with ordinary compound arrangements,
require a considerable train of parts. It is used for
overcoming great resistance or producing very slow or very
rapid motion.
Differential pulley. (Mach.)
(a) A portable hoisting apparatus, the same in principle
as the differential windlass.
(b) A hoisting pulley to which power is applied through a
differential gearing.
Differential screw, a compound screw by which a motion is
produced equal to the difference of the motions of the
component screws.
Differential thermometer, a thermometer usually with a
U-shaped tube terminating in two air bulbs, and containing
a colored liquid, used for indicating the difference
between the temperatures to which the two bulbs are
exposed, by the change of position of the colored fluid,
in consequence of the different expansions of the air in
the bulbs. A graduated scale is attached to one leg of the
tube.
Differential windlass, or Chinese windlass, a windlass
whose barrel has two parts of different diameters. The
hoisting rope winds upon one part as it unwinds from the
other, and a pulley sustaining the weight to be lifted
hangs in the bight of the rope. It is an ancient example
of a differential motion.
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Mail and duties
(gcide) | Mail \Mail\, n. [F. maille, OF. also maaille, LL. medalia. See
Medal.]
1. A small piece of money; especially, an English silver
half-penny of the time of Henry V. [Obs.] [Written also
maile, and maille.]
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2. Rent; tribute. [Obs., except in certain compounds and
phrases, as blackmail, mails and duties, etc.]
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Mail and duties (Scots Law), the rents of an estate, in
whatever form paid.
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DUTIES
(bouvier) | DUTIES. In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes,
embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its
more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs, (q.v.) or
imposts. (q.v.) Story, Const. Sec. 949. Vide, for the rate of duties
payable on goods and merchandise, Gord. Dig. B. 7, t. 1, c. 1; Story's L. U.
S. Index, h.t.
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