Done vs Dole - What's the difference?
done | dole |
(of food) Ready, fully cooked.
In a state of having completed or finished an activity.
Being exhausted or fully spent.
Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
(African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect.
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
As verbs the difference between done and dole
is that done is while dole is .done
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
- 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.
- When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
- He is done , after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
- 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 doneVerb
(head)- I have ''done'' my work.
- I done did my best to raise y'all.
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* * English irregular past participles ----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.