due

adj

Etymology: From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).

1. Owed or owing.

   “He is due four weeks of back pay.”

   “The amount due is just three quid.”

2. Appropriate.

   “With all due respect, you're wrong about that.”

   “With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.”

3. Scheduled; expected.

   “Rain is due this afternoon.”

   “The train is due in five minutes.”

4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.

   “The baby is just about due.”

   “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.”

5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.

   “The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.”

   “the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars”

6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.

   “The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.”

adv

Etymology: From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).

1. Directly; exactly.

   “The river runs due north for about a mile.”

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).

1. Deserved acknowledgment.

   “Give him his due – he is a good actor.”

   “Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.”

2. A membership fee.
3. 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.

   “He will give the devil his due.”

   “Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, / Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, / Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; […]”

4. Right; just title or claim.

   “The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep.”