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“Dew” or “Do” or “Due”

dew / do / due are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

dew d·UW

  • nounwater that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.

do d·UW

  • nounthe syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
  • verbget (something) done.
  • verbproceed or get along.
  • verbcreate or design, often in a certain way.
  • verbcarry on or function.
  • verbtravel or traverse (a distance).

due d·UW

  • nounthat which is deserved or owed.
  • nouna payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership).
  • adjectiveowed and payable immediately or on demand.
  • adjectivescheduled to arrive.
  • adjectivesuitable to or expected in the circumstances.
  • adverbdirectly or exactly; straight.
Usage

Examples in context

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“dew”

  • …Island to connect the northern DEW line to the White Alice
  • Therefore, dew points actually dropped before the…
  • Setina irrorella, dew moth — south & north-west…
  • …Darya dar Shabnam (Oceans in Dew) and Negin-ha wa Setara-ha (Gems…
  • …Alaska Peninsula including the Aleutian DEW Line system.
  • DEW Line (Post Cold War era)
  • …reduced to below the hydrocarbon dew point temperature at a set
  • The mystery flavor was Mountain Dew.
  • …ue such as due and dew.
  • …McLuhan Centennial (Signals from the DEW Line: Art and Poetry in…

“do”

  • Fox, The CW, and MyNetworkTV do not produce national morning and…
  • …refuse to test it, as do the other women in the…
  • …few electric car manufacturers that do not use NMC in their…
  • …bishop of the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (Universal Church…
  • …cross with the inscription ord do degen.
  • …maintained that he did not do anything illegal.
  • …unlike the American network newscasts do not compete with one another…
  • Most U.S. cable news networks do not air news programming 24…
  • …said it: "is unable to do is to respond to requests…
  • …refers to weather presenters that do not have degrees in meteorology…

“due”

  • …come off after 35 minutes due to an injury.
  • Due to space constraints, the two…
  • Prisoners died due to bad camp conditions and…
  • …news channel has become ambiguous due to its recent incorporation of…
  • …evening newscasts at 11:30 p.m., due to the scheduling of the…
  • …scarce in 1942 in Finland due to a bad harvest.
  • …transmission, especially on wet-clutch variants (due to electronics and hydraulic systems);
  • Due to a production fault, over…
  • …of some of the prisoners due to harsh camp conditions.
  • …News brand for their newscasts), due to the network's controversially perceived…

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