different between dole vs dols

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)

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

Derived terms

• dole out

Translations

Noun

dole

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. (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.

4. A boundary; a landmark.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
5. (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)

1. (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.

2. (law, Scotland) Dolus.

Anagrams

• Delo, Deol, Ledo, OLED, leod, lode, olde

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dol?]

Adverb

dole

1. down (at a lower place or position)

Antonyms

• naho?e

Related terms

• dol?

See also

• vlevo
• vpravo

Noun

dole m

1. 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

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dolen

Anagrams

• doel

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: dolent, doles

Verb

dole

1. inflection of doler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

dol?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dole?

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?l?/, [?d?l?]

Noun

dole

1. locative singular of do?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.l?/

Noun

dole f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of dola

Noun

dole m inan

1. locative/vocative singular of dó?

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): d?lje

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dôle/
• Hyphenation: do?le

Adverb

d?le (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. down
2. below

Interjection

d?le (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. down

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English dol, from Old English d?l, from Proto-Germanic *dail?.

Noun

dole

1. 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

1. A lake.

See also

• gol

English

Noun

dols

1. plural of dol

Anagrams

• DLOs, LODs, LoDs, OSDL, Olds, lods, olds, sold

Catalan

Verb

dols

1. second-person singular present indicative form of doldre

French

Noun

dols m

1. plural of dol