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Doling vs Doing - What's the difference?

doling | doing |

As verbs the difference between doling and doing

is that doling is while doing is (rare|chiefly|netherlands|nonstandard).

As a noun doling

is the act of one who doles.

doling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who doles.
  • * 1869 , Catholic World (volume 8, page 712)
    • Their charities never have been limited to the necessities of mere subsistence, like the secular dolings out of so-called modern charity.

    doing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (pedantic)

    Etymology 1

    See (do).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
    • This is his doing . (= "He did it.")

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Onomatopœic.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
    • Synonyms
    * boing

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    * * * English onomatopoeias