Doing vs Done - What's the difference?
doing | done |
A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
(of food) Ready, fully cooked.
In a state of having completed or finished an activity.
Being exhausted or fully spent.
Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
(African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect.
As verbs the difference between doing and done
is that doing is (rare|chiefly|netherlands|nonstandard) while done is .doing
English
Alternative forms
* (pedantic)Etymology 1
See (do).Noun
(en noun)- This is his doing . (= "He did it.")
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Onomatopœic.Interjection
(en interjection)Synonyms
* boingStatistics
*Anagrams
* * * English onomatopoeiasdone
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
- He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done ."
- They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
- When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
- He is done , after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
- I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done !
- What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
Derived terms
* be done for * be done with it * done deal * get done for * overdone * well doneVerb
(head)- I have ''done'' my work.
- I done did my best to raise y'all.
