Definition of done

"done" in the verb sense

1. make, do

engage in

"make love, not war"

"make an effort"

"do research"

"do nothing"

"make revolution"

2. perform, execute, do

carry out or perform an action

"John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"

"the skater executed a triple pirouette"

"she did a little dance"

3. do, perform

get (something) done

"I did my job"

4. do, fare, make out, come, get along

proceed or get along

"How is she doing in her new job?"

"How are you making out in graduate school?"

"He's come a long way"

5. cause, do, make

give rise to cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally

"cause a commotion"

"make a stir"

"cause an accident"

6. practice, practise, exercise, do

carry out or practice as of jobs and professions

"practice law"

7. suffice, do, answer, serve

be sufficient be adequate, either in quality or quantity

"A few words would answer"

"This car suits my purpose well"

"Will $100 do?"

"A `B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"

"Nothing else will serve"

8. do, make

create or design, often in a certain way

"Do my room in blue"

"I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"

9. act, behave, do

behave in a certain manner show a certain behavior conduct or comport oneself

"You should act like an adult"

"Don't behave like a fool"

"What makes her do this way?"

"The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people"

10. serve, do

spend time in prison or in a labor camp

"He did six years for embezzlement"

11. do, manage

carry on or function

"We could do with a little more help around here"

12. dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure

arrange attractively

"dress my hair for the wedding"

13. do

travel or traverse (a distance

"This car does 150 miles per hour"

"We did 6 miles on our hike every day"

"done" in the adjective sense

1. done, through, through with

having finished or arrived at completion

"certain to make history before he's done"

"it's a done deed"

"after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"

"almost through with his studies"

2. done

cooked until ready to serve

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Quotations for done

Begun is half done. [ Proverb ]

Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's crown well won,
Now comes rest. [ President Garfield's Epitaph ]

Well begun is half done. [ Proverb ]

Deed done is well begun. [ Dante ]

No sooner said than done. [ French ]

An ill turn is soon done. [ Proverb ]

Women's work is never done. [ Proverb ]

A womans work is never done. [ Proverb ]

It is sooner said than done. [ Proverb ]

Two hands upon the breast.
And labor's done;
Two pale feet cross'd in rest.
The race is won. [ D. M. Mulock ]

Now all is done that men can do
And all is done in vain. [ Burns ]

Do not do what is already done. [ Terence ]

Better do it than wish it done. [ Proverb ]

And still be doing, never done. [ Butler ]

If things were to be done twice.
All would be wise. [ Proverb ]

Duty done is the soul's fireside. [ Browning ]

I'd say he's done more than that. [ Yogi Berra, when asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the current season ]

Man's work lasts till set of sun;
Woman's work is never done. [ Proverb ]

Put thou thy trust in God;
In duty's path go on;
Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
So shall thy work be done. [ Martin Luther ]

Boldly ventured is half done (won). [ German Proverb ]

He liveth long who liveth well.
All else is life but flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Done to death by slanderous tongues. [ William Shakespeare ]

Rest is good after the work is done. [ Danish Proverb ]

A great bustle and no business done. [ Proverb ]

All may do what has by man been done. [ Edward Young ]

What is done by night appears by day. [ Proverb ]

Another such victory and we are done. [ Pyrrhus after his second victory over the Romans ]

Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. [ Shakespeare ]

Prodigious actions may as well be done
By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. [ Dryden ]

Without great men nothing can be done. [ Renan ]

That which is well done is twice done. [ Proverb ]

There is no mischief in the world done,
But a woman is always one. [ Proverb ]

When prayers are done my lady is ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What has been done don't do over again. [ Cicero ]

Time's waters will not ebb nor stay;
Power cannot change them, but Love may;
What cannot be, Love counts it done. [ Keble ]

What 'twas weak to do,
'Tis weaker to lament, once being done. [ Shelley ]

Life counts not hours by joys or pangs;
But just by duties done. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

Little is done when every man is master. [ Proverb ]

A fool when he hath spoke hath done all. [ Proverb ]

We know that wealth well understood,
Hath frequent power of doing good;
Then fancy that the thing is done,
As if the power and will were one;
Thus oft the cheated crowd adore,
The thriving knaves that keep them poor. [ Gay ]

Timely advised, the coming evil shun;
Better not do the deed, than weep it done. [ Prior ]

Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine! [ Milton ]

Let justice be done, and the world perish. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is well said or done in a passion. [ Proverb ]

My pen is at the bottom of a page,
Which being finished, here the story ends;
'Tis to be wish'd it had been sooner done,
But stories somehow lengthen when begun. [ Byron ]

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done. [ William Shakespeare ]

What I have done is due to patient thought. [ Sir Isaac Newton ]

That which is easily done is soon believed. [ Proverb ]

When a thing is done advice comes too late. [ Proverb ]

If you believe in evil, you have done evil. [ A. de Musset ]

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day;
And in the morning what thou hast to do. [ George Herbert ]

The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes. [ Alice Cary ]

Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery. [ Shakespeare ]

Give a dog an ill name and his work is done. [ Proverb ]

All things that great men do, are well done. [ Proverb ]

All things are easy that are done willingly. [ Proverb ]

Thanks to the gods; my boy has done his duty. [ Addison ]

Let all things be done decently and in order. [ Bible ]

You have done your day's work, you may unyoke. [ Proverb ]

The war is not done so long as my enemy lives. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth! [ Dana ]

What hath this day deserved? what hath it done.
That it in golden letters should be set
Among the high tides in the calendar? [ William Shakespeare ]

Take your venture as many a good ship hath done. [ Proverb ]

Thy will be done though the heavens should fall.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough:
I've done my duty; and I've done no more. [ Fielding ]

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]

The best work in the world is done on the quiet. [ Proverb ]

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where,
And when, and how thy business may be done,
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire.
Exert that noblest privilege, alone
Here to mankind indulged; control desire:
Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne,
Speak the commanding word I will! and it is done. [ Thomson ]

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. [ Publius Syrus ]

You are a fool; you do what has been done already. [ Plaut ]

Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
These are not done by jostling in the street. [ Wm. Blake ]

We leave more to do when we die than we have done. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When children stand quiet they have done some ill. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The nurse is valued till the child be done sucking. [ Proverb ]

Knaves imagine nothing can be done without knavery. [ Proverb ]

Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this -
Men prize the thing ungamed more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]

Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended. [ Proverb ]

That which a man causes to be done, he does himself. [ Proverb ]

What's come to perfection perishes,
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. [ Robert Browning ]

You have sat your time, as many a good hen has done. [ Proverb ]

Greatness, once and for ever, has done with opinion. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. [ Emerson ]

Adam must have an Eve, to blame for what he has done. [ German Proverb ]

He that pays beforehand shall have his work ill done. [ Proverb ]

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages. [ Washington ]

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart. [ George Eliot ]

What may be done at any time, will be done at no time. [ Proverb ]

The greatest things are done by the help of small ones. [ Proverb ]

Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. [ Proverb ]

Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Good actions done in secret are the most worthy of honour. [ Pascal ]

He a beast doth die that hath done no good to his country. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. [ John Ruskin ]

How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [ Terence ]

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. [ Samuel Johnson ]

There is something not solid in the good that is done for us. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.

If you have done no ill the six days, you may play the seventh. [ Proverb ]

There are cases where little can be said and much must be done. [ Johnson ]

The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Little wrongs done to others are great wrongs done to ourselves. [ Proverb ]

The best work never was, nor ever will be, done for money at all. [ John Ruskin ]

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money. [ Proverb ]

A world this in which much is to be done, and little to be known. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When a man hath once done blushing, he commences a hardened sinner. [ Proverb ]

I am afraid to think what I have done; look on it again I dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

The virtuous action, done for virtue's sake alone, is truly laudable. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned. [ Schiller ]

Conceited half-witted fellows think nothing can be done without them. [ Proverb ]

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done is done. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

The good man of the house is the last that knows what is done at home. [ Proverb ]

He that does not as he ought, must not look to be done to as he would. [ Proverb ]

You cannot have your work well done if the work be not of a right kind. [ Carlyle ]

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done. [ Plautus ]

There is pleasure in meeting the eyes of those to whom we have done good. [ La Bruyere ]

The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done. [ Columella ]

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. [ John Ruskin ]

When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight. [ Bacon ]

In the present day our literary masonry is well done, but our architecture is poor. [ Joubert ]

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! [ Hosea Ballou ]

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty done. [ George MacDonald ]

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done, as the fear of consequences. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Business despatched Is business well done; but business hurried is business ill done. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth. [ Crabbe ]

Devote each day to the object then in time, and every evening will find something done. [ Goethe ]

The little done vanishes from the sight of man, who looks forward to what is still to do. [ Goethe ]

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [ Seneca ]

A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it. [ Seneca ]

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. [ Dr. Johnson ]

I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. [ Gilpin ]

Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor; if they be done to us, to suffer them is valor too. [ Ben Jonson ]

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies. [ Aughey ]

Religion without piety hath done more mischief in the world than all other things put together. [ Proverb ]

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. [ Swift ]

Nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done in pride. [ Ruskin ]

The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done. [ Bible ]

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. [ Bovee ]

An injury cannot be done to a consenting party, (i.e. if he consents or connives, he cannot complain. [ Law ]

A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for. [ Charles Buxton ]

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity. [ E. de Girardin ]

It is the privilege of every human work which is well done, to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, (i.e. known him so long as you might have done so. [ Proverb ]

The remembrance of the good done those we have loved, is the only consolation left us when we have lost them. [ Demoustier ]

All the evil that women have done to us comes from us, and all the good they have done to us comes from them. [ Martin ]

Much in the world may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by discernment and impartial justice. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! [ Colton ]

If you want your neighbor to know what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. [ Jane Taylor ]

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution. [ Tillotson ]

One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die. [ C. N. Bovee ]

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, - it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. [ Carlyle ]

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. [ William Penn ]

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it. [ Dickens ]

Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place. [ Milton ]

Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

On things which are no more to be changed a backward glance must be no longer cast! What is done is done, and so remains. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done. [ Froude ]

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. [ George Henry Lewes ]

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog standing on his hinder legs. It is not done well, but you wonder to see it done at all. [ Johnson ]

Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it. [ Charles Buxton ]

God pardon them that are the cause thereof! A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion, to pray for them that have done scath to us. [ William Shakespeare ]

Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet among the people we name cultivated, little earnestness is to be found. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. [ Hannah More ]

When the commander-in-chief is not with the army, that is sooner done which need not to be done than that which requires to be done. [ Plaut ]

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and be does it without effort. [ Ruskin ]

Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but if passion carries them, it will be well done; passion knows more than art. [ Baron ]

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. [ Sheridan ]

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace. [ Emerson ]

Brethren, life is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God - this abides forever, this alone is imperishable. [ Richard Fuller ]

He who has done the best he can, has a right to be as happy in the hope of ultimate triumph as though he was already enthroned amidst that triumph. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. [ Sterne ]

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it. [ W. Gladden ]

The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. [ Arthur Helps ]

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals. [ Colton ]

If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Three letters! but one syllable! Still less, a single motion of the head, and all is done! one is married for ever! I do not know any breakneck comparable to it. [ A. Ricard ]

There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. And the same men cannot do both. [ John Ruskin ]

Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above. [ Henry Melvill ]

That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. [ John Ruskin ]

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. [ Goethe ]

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them. [ Prince de Ligne ]

Is it not strange, the way in which good angels seem to take up the thread of our dropped hopes and endeavors, and wind them up for us, we know not how, till it is all done? [ Miss Muloch ]

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that ever was or ever will be of godlike in this world, - the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. [ Carlyle ]

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. [ Wendell Phillips ]

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasurable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris. [ Talfourd ]

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done. [ Chesterfield ]

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. [ Carlyle ]

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. [ Daniel Webster ]

Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. [ B. R. Haydon ]

Written on a Skull: Lamp, what hast thou done with the flame? Skeleton, what hast thou done with the soul? Deserted cage, what hast thou done with the bird? Volcano, what hast thou done with the lava? [ Mme. A. Segalas ]

Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

All life is surrounded by a great circumference of death; but to the believer in Jesus, beyond this surrounding death is a boundless sphere of life. He has only to die once to be done with death forever. [ James Hamilton ]

Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires. [ Montaigne ]

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence. [ Spurgeon ]

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance. [ Seneca ]

How many of these minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done! They have no excitability. You are attempting to kindle a fire of stone. You must leave them as you find them, in permanent mediocrity. [ John Foster ]

Put a seal upon your lips and forget what you have done. After you have been kind, after love hath stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]

I could write down twenty cases, wherein I wished God had done otherwise than He did; but which I now see, had I had my own will, would have led to extensive mischief. The life of a Christian is a life of paradoxes. [ Cecil ]

If as much care were taken to perpetuate a race of fine men as is done to prevent the mixture of ignoble blood in horses and dogs, the genealogy of every one would be written on his face and displayed in his manners. [ Voltaire ]

Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. [ Madeleine Guerchois ]

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world! [ Hosea Ballou ]

Ordinary or Common? A distinction may be thus drawn between these terms; what is common is done by many persons; what is ordinary is repeated many times. Ordinary has to do with the repetition of the act; common, with the persons who perform it. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Philosophers and men of letters have done more for mankind than Orpheus, Hercules, or Theseus; for it is more meritorious and more difficult to wean men from their prejudices than to civilize the barbarian: It is harder to correct than to instruct. [ Voltaire ]

Much debating goes on about the good that has been done and the harm by the free circulation of the Bible. To me this is clear: it will do harm, as it has done, if used dogmatically and fancifully; and do good, as it has done, if used didactically and feelingly. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. [ St. Augustine ]

Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned. [ James Hamilton ]

There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so great but that slight actions may help it, and may be so done as to help it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. [ Ruskin ]

Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. [ Carlyle ]

O poets! what injury you have done us, and how right Plato was to banish you from his republic! How your ambrosia has rendered more bitter our absinth! How have we found our lives more barren and more desolate, after having turned our eyes toward the sublime perspectives which your dreams have opened in the infinite! [ T. Gautier ]

It is necessary to look forward as well as backward, as some think it is always necessary to regulate their conduct by things that have been done of old times, but that past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on an alternative of some past that went before it. [ Madame De Stael ]

Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. [ Carlyle ]

It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors. [ Aughey ]

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]

It is particularly worth observation that the more we magnify, by the assistance of glasses, the works of nature, the more regular and beautiful they appear, while it is quite different in respect to those of art, for when they are examined through a microscope we are astonished to find them so rough, so coarse and uneven, although they have been done with all imaginable care, by the best workmen. [ Sterne ]

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]

O God, whom the world misjudges, and whom everything declares! listen to the last words that my lips pronounce! If I have wandered, it was in seeking Thy law. My heart may go astray, but it is full of Thee! I see, without alarm, eternity appear; and I can not think that a God who has given me life, that a God who has poured so many blessings on my days, will, now that my days are done, torment me for ever! [ The last prayer of Voltaire ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

There are chords in the human heart - strange varying strings - which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view. [ Dickens ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]

done in Scrabble®

The word done is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters done:

DONE
(21)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word done

DONE
(21)
DONE
(18)
DONE
(15)
DONE
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DONE
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DONE
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DONE
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DONE
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DONE
(5)

The 194 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In done

DONE
(21)
NODE
(18)
NODE
(18)
DONE
(18)
NODE
(15)
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(15)
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(12)
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NO
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NO
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done in Words With Friends™

The word done is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters done:

NODE
(30)
DONE
(30)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word done

DONE
(30)
DONE
(24)
DONE
(18)
DONE
(18)
DONE
(18)
DONE
(18)
DONE
(16)
DONE
(14)
DONE
(14)
DONE
(12)
DONE
(12)
DONE
(12)
DONE
(12)
DONE
(10)
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(10)
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(8)
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(7)
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(7)
DONE
(6)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In done

NODE
(30)
DONE
(30)
NODE
(24)
DONE
(24)
NODE
(18)
DONE
(18)
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(15)
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(15)
NOD
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(15)
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(15)
NOD
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DEN
(15)
DEN
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DONE
(14)
DONE
(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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NOD
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DON
(13)
DONE
(12)
DONE
(12)
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(12)
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ONE
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ONE
(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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DOE
(12)
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(12)
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(10)
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(10)
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DONE
(10)
NOD
(10)
EON
(10)
END
(10)
NOD
(10)
END
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(10)
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(10)
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(10)
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(10)
DON
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NODE
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END
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ODE
(8)
ODE
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Word Growth involving done

Shorter words in done

do don

on don

on one

Longer words containing done

abandoned abandonedly

abandoned reabandoned

abandoned unabandoned

abandonee abandonees

abandoner abandoners

amidone amidones

cefazedone

cefempidone

chlorthalidone

comedone comedones

condone condoned

condone condonement condonements

condone condoner condoners

condone condones

cordoned

crospolividone

crospovidone

furazolidone

guerdoned

guerdoner guerdoners

iridodonesis

methadone methadones

misdone

outdone

overdone

oxycodone

pardoned unpardoned

pardoner pardoners

phenanthridone phenanthridones

pyridone pyridopyridone pyridopyridones

pyrrolidone polypyrrolidone polyvinylpolypyrrolidone

pyrrolidone polyvinylpyrrolidone

redone

trazodone trazodones

underdone

undone