1. A mechanical device by which a vessel is steered.
2. A position of leadership.

1. A hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes.
2. (Nautical) A hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel and used to steer it.

A handwheel that is used for steering; SYN. wheel.

ETYM From Due.
1. The social force that binds one to one's obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force.
2. Work that one is obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.
Moral obligation experienced as a felt commandment of the moral law. Moral conflicts occur where a number of duties make apparently irreconcilable demands on us.
The stoics in ancient Greece and Immanuel Kant in Germany (who coined the concept of the categorical imperative) are the moral philosophers who have placed greatest emphasis on duty. Duty is strongly emphasized in Confucianism (especially duty to the state and to ancestors) and in Japanese culture, where it is divided into obligations (on) that can and therefore must be repaid, and continuous obligations, such as those to parents and country. + prikaži više

ETYM French taxe, from taxer to tax, Latin taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, from tangere, tactum, to touch. Related to Tangent, Task, Taste.
(Homonym: tacks).
Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government; SYN. taxation, revenue enhancement.