Doled vs Soled - What's the difference?

doled | soled |

As verbs the difference between doled and soled

is that doled is past tense of dole while soled is past tense of sole.

doled

English

Verb

(head)

(dole)

----

dole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dol, from (etyl) .

Verb

(dol)

To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

Noun

Money or other goods given as charity.

* Dryden

So sure the dole , so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.

* Keble

Heaven has in store a precious dole .

Distribution; dealing; apportionment.

* Cleveland

At her general dole , / Each receives his ancient soul.

(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.

I get my dole paid twice a week.

I?ve been on the dole for two years now.

* 1996 , , 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.

* 1997 , , OECD Economic Surveys: Australia , 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.

A boundary; a landmark.

(Halliwell)

(UK, dialect) A void space left in tillage.

Etymology 2

(etyl) dolus, from (etyl) doleo.

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.

* 1485 , , 1868, Morte Darthur , page 212,

Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole .

* Tennyson

And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.

(legal, Scotland) dolus

Derived terms

* (payment to support the unemployed) dole bludger

Anagrams

* ----

soled

English

Verb

(head)

(sole)

Anagrams

* * * *

sole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(dialectal, or, obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

(dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

Etymology 3

From earlier . See above.

Alternative forms

* (l), (l)

Verb

(sol)

To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).

Adjective

(-)

only

(legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

Etymology 5

From (etyl) (m), (m), from Old English. Reinforced by (etyl), (etyl) sole, from . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.

The bottom of a shoe or boot.

* Arbuthnot

The caliga was a military shoe, with a very thick sole , tied above the instep.

(obsolete) The foot itself.

* Bible, Genesis viii. 9

The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

* Spenser

Hast wandered through the world now long a day, / Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.

Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae .

The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

# The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.

# The bottom of a furrow.

# The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.

# (military) The bottom of an embrasure.

# (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.

(Totten)

(mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

Synonyms

* (bottom of the foot''): planta (''medical term )

Derived terms

* insole * midsole *

Verb

(sol)

to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)

Derived terms

* resole

Anagrams

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