amerikai:
brit:
1. A heavy load.
2. A responsibility, onus.
3. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
4. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
a ship of a hundred tons burden
5. The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
6. The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
7. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.
8. A birth.
9. The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
1. To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
to burden a nation with taxes
2. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
1. A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
2. The drone of a bagpipe.
3. Theme, core idea.
the burden of the argument