| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Dole.[Websters]
2. To be fated, lotted or predetermined. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have sorrowed, lamented or regretted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be pained or diseased. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have benefited, aided or favoured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be troubled or misfortuned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have presented or served. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have rationed or dosed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have lucked or happed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have wailed or deplored.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb dole.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dole) | 1. To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: doling, doled, doles, doler, dolers, dolingly and doledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DOLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dole
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] The act of dealing or distributing; as the power of dole and donative. [Not in use.]. | 2: [Noun] That which is dealt or distributed; a part, share or portion.. | 3: [Noun] That which is given in charity; gratuity.. | 4: [Noun] Blows dealt out.. | 5: [Noun] Boundary. [Not in use.]. | 6: [Noun] A void space left in tillage. [Local.]. | 7: [Noun] Grief; sorrow.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Geography | 1: Dole is geographically located in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its features include a populated locality (an area similar to a locality but with a small group of dwellings or other buildings), and a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 43.279167 degrees North latitude and 17.364167 degrees East longitude. (references) | 2: Dole is geographically located in Chad. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), and a well (a cylindrical hole, pit, or tunnel drilled or dug down to a depth from which water, oil, or gas can be pumped or brought to the surface). Its geographic coordinates are 13.6 degrees North latitude and 14.8 degrees East longitude. (references) | 3: Dole is geographically located in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 6.033333 degrees South latitude and 26.3 degrees East longitude. (references) | 4: Dole is geographically located in Ethiopia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 5.7 degrees North latitude and 41.85 degrees East longitude. (references) | 5: Dole is geographically located in France. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 47.1 degrees North latitude and 5.5 degrees East longitude. (references) | 6: Dole is geographically located in Ghana. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), and a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 8.25 degrees North latitude and 1.9 degrees West longitude. (references) | 7: Dole is geographically located in Kenya. Its features include an area (a tract of land without homogeneous character or boundaries). Its geographic coordinates are 1.216667 degrees North latitude and 36.566667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 8: Dole is geographically located in Latvia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), and a railroad stop (a place lacking station facilities where trains stop to pick up and unload passengers and freight). Its geographic coordinates are 56.854167 degrees North latitude and 24.256389 degrees East longitude. (references) | 9: Dole is geographically located in Liberia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 6.084167 degrees North latitude and 8.149167 degrees West longitude. (references) | 10: Dole is geographically located in Nigeria. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 10.033333 degrees North latitude and 8.95 degrees East longitude. (references) | 11: Dole is geographically located in Slovenia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 45.981389 degrees North latitude and 14.106111 degrees East longitude. (references) | 12: Dole is geographically located in Sudan. Its features include a mountain (an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more). Its geographic coordinates are 4.198056 degrees North latitude and 33.666389 degrees East longitude. (references) | 13: Dole is geographically located in Tanzania. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), and a third-order administrative division (a subdivision of a second-order administrative division). Its geographic coordinates are 6.1 degrees South latitude and 39.25 degrees East longitude. (references) |
| Literature | 1: "He [the dwarf] found the dead bodies, wherefore he made great dole" - S. Lanier: King Arthur, book i. chap. xiv. 2: "Heaven has in store a precious dole." 3: "Wherein, happy man be his dole, I trust that I 4: Damon and Pythias, i. 177. 5: Dole a portion allotted, is the Anglo Saxon dál, a portion. 6: Dole lamentation, from the Latin doleo, to grieve. 7: Happy man be his dole. May his share or lot be that of a happy or fortunate man. 8: Keble: Christian Year (4th Sunday after Trinity). 9: Shall not speed worst, and that very quickly." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mining | A division of a parcel of ore. Also spelled dol. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (archaic) sorrow or grief; dolour. (references) | 2: [Noun] (UK, slang) 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. (references) | 3: [Noun] money or other goods given as charity. (references) | 4: [Verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out, small portions of a meagre resource. (references) |
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Common Expressions: DOLED
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Doled out | Given out in portions. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: dole
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| DOLE | English | Department of Labour and Employment | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
