Associations to the word «Burden»

BURDEN, noun. A heavy load.

BURDEN, noun. A responsibility, onus.

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

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

BURDEN, noun. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

BURDEN, noun. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

BURDEN, noun. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.

BURDEN, noun. (obsolete) (rare) A birth.

BURDEN, noun. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.

BURDEN, verb. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).

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

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

BURDEN, noun. The drone of a bagpipe.

BURDEN, noun. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

BURDEN OF PERSUASION, noun. (legal) The duty upon a party in a legal proceeding to persuade the fact-finder to decide for that party on an assertion of fact; part of the burden of proof, sometimes loosely used as synonym for that term.

BURDEN OF PRODUCTION, noun. (legal) The duty upon a party in a legal proceeding to introduce enough evidence relating to an assertion of fact to have the issue be considered by the fact-finder rather than summarily dismissed or decided; part of the burden of proof.

BURDEN OF PROOF, noun. (legal) The duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion; the onus probandi

BURDEN, noun. An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind".

BURDEN, noun. Weight to be borne or conveyed.

BURDEN, noun. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.

BURDEN, noun. The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse.

BURDEN, verb. Weight down with a load.

BURDEN, verb. Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend".