Doled vs Holed - What's the difference?
doled | holed |
(dole)
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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
(hole)
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
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*(Bible), 2 (w) xii.9:
*:The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:the holes where eyes should be
* (1809-1892)
*:The blind walls were full of chinks and holes .
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
#An opening in a solid.
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(lb) In games.
#(lb) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
#(lb) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
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#(lb) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
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#(lb) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
#(lb) A card (also called a hole card ) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
An excavation pit or trench.
(lb) A weakness, a flaw
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*2011 , - (We Are Young)
*:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know /
(lb) A container or receptacle.
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(lb) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
(lb) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
(lb) An orifice, in particular the anus.
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
(lb) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
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(lb) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
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To make holes in (an object or surface).
(by extension) To destroy.
To go or get into a hole.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
(hele)
As verbs the difference between doled and holed
is that doled is (dole) while holed is (hole).doled
English
Verb
(head)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.
page 107,
- 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.
page 67,
- 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
(-)page 212,
- 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
* ----holed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *hole
English
(wikipedia hole)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See also * (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, AdSeg, block (UK), cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unitDerived terms
* ace in the hole * arsehole, asshole * black hole * bolthole * bullet hole * burn a hole in one's pocket * button hole * cakehole * countersunk hole * cubby hole * donut hole * dry hole * electron hole * fox-hole, fox hole, foxhole * glory hole * gnamma hole {{rel-mid3} * gunk-hole * hellhole * hole in one * hole-in-the-wall * hole punch * hole state * holey * in the hole * keyhole * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * loophole * man-hole, manhole * mouse-hole, mousehole * nineteenth hole * pesthole * pigeonhole * pilot hole * poophole * pothole * pritchel hole * rathole * sink hole * sound hole * toad-in-the-hole * top-hole * touch hole * watering hole * white hole * wonky holeVerb
(hol)- (Ben Jonson)
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars