different between dole vs allowance
dole
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??l/, /d??l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /do?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophone: dhole
Etymology 1
From Middle English dol, from Old English d?l (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dail? (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ?????? (d?liti, “divide”). More at deal.
Verb
dole (third-person singular simple present doles, present participle doling, simple past and past participle doled)
- To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Derived terms
- dole out
Translations
Noun
dole
- Money or other goods given as charity.
- c. 1690, John Dryden, Eleonora
- So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
- c. 1690, John Dryden, Eleonora
- Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
- c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising
- At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
- c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising
- (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
- 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 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, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 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.
- 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, page 107,
- A boundary; a landmark.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
Synonyms
- (payment by the state to the unemployed): pancrack (UK), pogey (Canada)
Derived terms
- (payment to support the unemployed): dole bludger
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English doell (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.
Noun
dole (uncountable)
- (archaic) A Sorrow or grief; dolour.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, 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.
- But ten slow mornings past, and on the eleventh / Her father laid the letter in her hand, / And closed the hand upon it, and she died. / So that day there was dole in Astolat.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, 1868, Morte Darthur, page 212,
- (law, Scotland) Dolus.
Anagrams
- Delo, Deol, Ledo, OLED, leod, lode, olde
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?dol?]
Adverb
dole
- down (at a lower place or position)
Antonyms
- naho?e
Related terms
- dol?
See also
- vlevo
- vpravo
Noun
dole m
- vocative/locative singular of d?l
Further reading
- dole in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- dole in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Verb
dole
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dolen
Anagrams
- doel
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: dolent, doles
Verb
dole
- inflection of doler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Verb
dol?
- second-person singular present active imperative of dole?
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?l?/, [?d?l?]
Noun
dole
- locative singular of do?
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?.l?/
Noun
dole f
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of dola
Noun
dole m inan
- locative/vocative singular of dó?
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Ijekavian): d?lje
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dôle/
- Hyphenation: do?le
Adverb
d?le (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- down
- below
Interjection
d?le (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- down
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English dol, from Old English d?l, from Proto-Germanic *dail?.
Noun
dole
- A deal.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
Zazaki
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [do?l?]
- Hyphenation: do?le
Alternative forms
- dol
Noun
dole f
- A lake.
See also
- gol
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allowance
English
Alternative forms
- allowaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French alouance.
Morphologically allow +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??la??ns/
Noun
allowance (countable and uncountable, plural allowances)
- permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
- Acknowledgment.
- That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II
- After making the largest allowance for fraud.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II
- (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
- (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- Antonym: penalty
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
- (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- (obsolete) approval; approbation
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabbe to this entry?)
- (obsolete) license; indulgence
- 1695, John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity
- this Allowance for their Transgressions
- 1695, John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity
Synonyms
- (act of allowing): authorization, permission, sanction, tolerance.
- (money): stipend
- (minting): remedy, tolerance
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
allowance (third-person singular simple present allowances, present participle allowancing, simple past and past participle allowanced)
- (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
- (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
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