Dope vs Dole - What's the difference?

dope | dole |

As verbs the difference between dope and dole

is that dope is while dole is .

As an adjective dope

is doped.

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 !

Anagrams

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dole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dol, from (etyl) .

Verb

(dol)

To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

Noun

Money or other goods given as charity.

* Dryden

So sure the dole , so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.

* Keble

Heaven has in store a precious dole .

Distribution; dealing; apportionment.

* Cleveland

At her general dole , / Each receives his ancient soul.

(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.

I get my dole paid twice a week.

I?ve been on the dole for two years now.

* 1996 , , page 107,

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.

* 1997 , , OECD Economic Surveys: Australia , page 67,

The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.

A boundary; a landmark.

(Halliwell)

(UK, dialect) A void space left in tillage.

Etymology 2

(etyl) dolus, from (etyl) doleo.

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.

* 1485 , , 1868, Morte Darthur , page 212,

Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole .

* Tennyson

And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.

(legal, Scotland) dolus

Derived terms

* (payment to support the unemployed) dole bludger

Anagrams

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