burden: significato e definizioni

Something that is carried.

Something that is emotionally difficult to bear.

A responsibility or duty: The burden of organizing the campaign fell to me.

Nautical The amount of cargo that a vessel can carry.

Nautical The weight of the cargo carried by a vessel at one time.

A source of great worry or stress; weight: The burden of economic sacrifice rests on the workers of the plant.

The amount of a disease-causing entity present in an organism.

To weigh down; oppress.

To load or overload.

A principal or recurring idea; a theme: "The burden of what he said was to defend enthusiastically the conservative aristocracy” ( J.A. Froude). See Synonyms at substance.

Music The chorus or refrain of a composition, especially of a 15th-century carol.

Music A drone, as of a bagpipe or pedal point.

Archaic Music The bass accompaniment to a song.