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Done vs Dine - What's the difference?

done | dine |

As verbs the difference between done and dine

is that done is past participle of lang=en while dine is to eat; to eat dinner or supper.

As an adjective done

is ready, fully cooked.

done

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
  • As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
  • In a state of having completed or finished an activity.
  • 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.
  • Being exhausted or fully spent.
  • When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
  • Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
  • He is done , after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
  • Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
  • 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 done

    Verb

    (head)
  • I have ''done'' my work.
  • (African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect.
  • I done did my best to raise y'all.

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    dine

    English

    Verb

    (din)
  • to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • (obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  • A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
  • (obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
  • What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.

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