Dun vs Dux - What's the difference?
dun | dux |
(uncountable) A brownish grey colour.
Of a brownish grey colour.
* Pierpont
* Keble
(countable) A collector of debts.
* Arbuthnot
* 1933 , (George Orwell), Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. 18:
* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 102:
An urgent request or demand of payment.
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 577:
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 107:
To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
(informal) : (do)
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
(humorous)
* Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks
(UK) The top academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.
* 1849 , Wilhelm Steven, The History of the High School of Edinburgh ,
* 1999 , Keith Scott, Gareth Evans ,
* 2010 , Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy ,
* 2011 , A. Lydiard, Running to the Top ,
(historical) A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
(music) The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.
As nouns the difference between dun and dux
is that dun is fortress while dux is (uk) the top academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.As a verb dun
is to close, shut.dun
English
(wikipedia dun)Etymology 1
From (etyl) dun, dunne, from (etyl) . Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Late Brythonic (compare Old Welsh dwnn 'dark (red)'), from (etyl) (compare Old Saxon dosan 'chestnut brown'). More at dusk.Noun
Adjective
(-)- Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.
- Chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Derived terms
* dun-barSee also
* bawn * durmast oak *Etymology 2
; perhaps a variant of din.Noun
(en noun)- to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun
- Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.
- ‘Frank's worried about duns ,’ she said as the butler went away.
- He sent his debtor a dun .
Verb
(dunn)- Hath she sent so soon to dun ?
- Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.
- Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.
Derived terms
* dun letterEtymology 3
Etymology 4
Etymology 5
See done.Verb
(head)- He dun''' it before and he '''dun it again.
- Now, ya dun it!
Etymology 6
See .Etymology 7
Verb
(dunn)Etymology 8
See dune.Etymology 9
Imitative.Interjection
(en interjection)- Has he allowed the power and the repercussions of the Death Note to influence his entire life? How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----dux
English
Noun
(en-noun)page 191,
- on the motion of Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., Lord Provost, unanimously resolved, July 27, 1814, “that there be annually presented by the town of Edinburgh to the boy at the head of the Greek class, taught by the rector of the High School, a gold medal of the same value [five guineas] as that annually presented to the dux of the Latin class.”
page 29,
- He finished the year dux' of Form III with an average 90 per cent over eight subjects. The school did not award end-of-year marks in fourth and fifth forms, but Evans? report for those years shows he passed all subjects in both years and was again ' dux in Form V.
page 28,
- This school was where my father had been dux' in his senior year in 1937 just as his father had been ' dux at the Rockhampton Grammar School27 before the turn of the 19th century.
page 17,
- Quite a few who became national athletic champions were also duxes or top academic pupils at their schools.