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done Definition

done (dun)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

do

adjective

  1. completed; ended
  2. sufficiently cooked
  3. socially acceptable because acceptable to arbiters of good taste: usually in a negative construction it just isn't done

done Idioms

done (for)

Informal
  1. dead, ruined, etc.
  2. discarded or dismissed as a failure
done Synonyms

done

modif.

  1. Accomplished

    over, through, finished, completed, realized, consummated, effected, executed, wrought, performed, rendered, compassed, fulfilled, brought to pass, brought about, actualized, perfected, over and out*; see also finished 1.

    Antonyms unfinished*, unrealized, failed.

  2. Cooked

    ready, prepared, well-done, well-cooked, hot, baked, stewed, broiled, boiled, crisped, crusted, fried, browned, done to a turn; see also baked.

    Antonyms raw*, burned, uncooked.

  3. Agreed upon

    agreed, settled, socially acceptable; see approved, determined 1.

done Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: HOW IT WAS GOT UP, AND WHAT IT HAS DONE.

Modifying Another Word

  • actually: He gives enough technical detail to convince me he knows what he is talking about and has actually DONE IT himself.

Modifies a noun

  • kebab: You haven't had a dodgy doner kebab, have you?
  • meat: Samples of doner meat were taken away to be analyzed at Bedfordshire County Council's new micro-biological laboratory.

Used with adjective complement

  • have: He gives enough technical detail to convince me he knows what he is talking about and has actually DONE IT himself.

Preposition: if

  • boundary: Returns: The character index of the next text boundary or DONE if all boundaries have been returned.
done Quotes

   I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

—Sandburg, Carl

You learn to love by lovingöby paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Done because we are too menny.

—Hardy,Thomas

He has, indeed, done it very well; but it is a foolish thing well done.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Non enim rei effectus, sed efficientis affectus in crimine est. Nec qu× fiunt, sed quo animo fiunt, ×quitus pensat. Crime liesnot inthe deed, but inthe doer'sintention: it is not what was done, but the spirit in which it was done that justice should consider.

—He¤  lo|«  se

Love only what you do, And not what you have done.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile

  So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankensteinömore, far more, will I achieve; treading the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

—Shelley, Mary Godwin

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

—Tennyson

The consumer, so it is said, is the king†each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

—Samuelson, Paul Anthony

What have I done for you, England, my England?

—Henley,W(illiam) E(rnest)

Come, gie's a sang, Montgomery cry'd, And lay your disputes a'aside; What signifies't for folks to chide For what's been done before them? Let Whig and Torya'agree, Whig and Tory,Whig and Tory, Whig and Tory a'agree To drop their whigmigmorum; Let Whig and Torya'agree To spend this night wi'mirth and glee, And cheerfu'sing, alang wi'me, The Reel o' Tullochgorum.

—Skinner,John

When all is said and done, leading a good life is more important than keeping a good diary.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain