Done vs Dope - What's the difference?

done | dope |

As verbs the difference between done and dope

is that done is while dope is .

As an adjective dope is

doped.

done

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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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dope

English

Noun

(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.

(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,

(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.

* 1953 , , Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer , Pantheon, 1981, p. 18

Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''

(uncountable, slang) Information.

* What's the latest dope on the stock market?

(countable, slang) A stupid person.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slap

Verb

(slang) To affect with drugs.

To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).

(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

(slang) To use drugs.

Adjective

(er)

(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.

That party was dope !

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