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DONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does done mean? 

DONE (adjective)
  The adjective DONE has 2 senses:

1. having finished or arrived at completionplay

2. cooked until ready to serveplay

  Familiarity information: DONE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DONE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having finished or arrived at completion

Synonyms:

done; through; through with

Context example:

almost through with his studies

Similar:

finished (ended or brought to an end)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Cooked until ready to serve

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)


 Context examples 


However, she would have it so, and it was done.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She beamed encouragement upon his desire for knowledge, and said: That depends upon how much studying you have already done.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“This is where young McFarlane must have come out to get his hat after the crime was done,” said he. “Now look at this.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whatever I do is done in a hurry, replied he; and therefore if I should resolve to quit Netherfield, I should probably be off in five minutes.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Now go, and do not ask to see me again until you have done your task.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

But he was thankful to the fox, and did not attempt his life as his brothers had done; so the fox said, “Sit upon my tail, and you will travel faster.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The universe was not done helping you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He desired to know, “what I would have done upon such an occasion in my own country.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“What have you done?” asked Holmes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leach had evidently done his task with a thoroughness that Mugridge had not forgiven, for words followed and evil names involving smirched ancestries.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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