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Done vs Dung - What's the difference?

done | dung |

As verbs the difference between done and dung

is that done is past participle of lang=en while dung is to fertilize with dung.

As an adjective done

is ready, fully cooked.

As a noun dung is

manure; animal excrement.

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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    dung

    English

    (wikipedia dung)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl), from (etyl).

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
  • * 1605 , , act III, scene iv, line 129
    • Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool
  • * 1611 , Authorized King James Version , Malachi 2:3
    • Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung' upon your faces, even the ' dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 4, page 496
    • The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.
  • (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
    • Derived terms
    * dung beetle * dung fly * dung fork * dunghill * dungy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fertilize with dung.
    • (Dryden)
  • (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  • To void excrement.

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)

    • Etymology 3

    unknown

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
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