Dole vs Meted - What's the difference?
dole | meted |
To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Money or other goods given as charity.
* Dryden
* Keble
Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
* Cleveland
(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
* 1996 , ,
* 1997 , , OECD Economic Surveys: Australia ,
A boundary; a landmark.
(UK, dialect) A void space left in tillage.
(archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.
* 1485 , , 1868, Morte Darthur ,
* Tennyson
(legal, Scotland) dolus
(mete)
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(transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal) To measure.
* 1611 — 7:2
* 1870s , Soothsay , lines 80-83
To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
* 1833 —
As verbs the difference between dole and meted
is that dole is while meted is (mete).dole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dol, from (etyl) .Verb
(dol)Noun
- So sure the dole , so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
- Heaven has in store a precious dole .
- At her general dole , / Each receives his ancient soul.
- I get my dole paid twice a week.
- I?ve been on the dole for two years now.
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- The men sit because they?re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole , discussing the world?s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.
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- The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 2
(etyl) dolus, from (etyl) doleo.Noun
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- Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole .
- And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.
Derived terms
* (payment to support the unemployed) dole bludgerAnagrams
* ----meted
English
Verb
(head)mete
English
Anagrams
* meet, teemEtymology 1
From (etyl) meten, from (etyl) .Verb
(met)- For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete , it shall be measured to you again.
- ''the Power that fashions man
- ''Measured not out thy little span
- ''For thee to take the meting -rod
- ''In turn,
- Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
- Unequal laws unto a savage race