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relief
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???li?f/
- Rhymes: -i?f
Etymology 1
From Old French relief (“assistance”), from Old French relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”). See also relieve.
Noun
relief (countable and uncountable, plural reliefs)
- The removal of stress or discomfort.
- The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
- Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
- The person who takes over a shift for another.
- Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
- (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
- A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
- A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
Synonyms
- (removal of stress and discomfort): ease, alleviation, liss, respite
- (feeling of removal of stress and discomfort): ease, alleviation, liss
- (person who takes over a shift): stand-in, substitute, backup, fill-in
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Italian rilevare (“to raise”), from Latin relevare (“to raise”).
Noun
relief (countable and uncountable, plural reliefs)
- A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
- The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
- The difference of elevations on a surface.
- the relief on that part of the Earth's surface
- (heraldry) The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.
Synonyms
- (type of artwork): embossing
- (difference of elevations on a surface): texture, topography
Derived terms
- relief map
Translations
Adjective
relief (comparative more relief, superlative most relief)
- (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
- Of or used in letterpress.
Anagrams
- Leifer, e-filer, liefer, refile, relfie, relife
French
Etymology
Old French, from relever.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.lj?f/
Noun
relief m (plural reliefs)
- projection, relief
- (geography, mineralogy) relief, surface elevation
- (figuratively) contrast, definition, offset (against something else)
- (sculpture) relief
Derived terms
- bas-relief
Further reading
- “relief” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Polish
Etymology
From French relief, from Old French relief (“assistance”), from relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?l.j?f/
Noun
relief m inan
- relief
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
From French relief.
Noun
relief n (plural reliefuri)
- relief (difference of elevations on the Earth's surface)
Related terms
- reliefa
- reliefare
- reliefat
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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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