dol
- noun
- /doʊl/
- Archaic
Examples
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The parsing of natural language into DOL is performed using a context-free grammar.
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Both the Supreme Court and the DOL have taken steps to clarify when individuals who are not treated as traditional employees by their employers are "employees" for the purposes of the FLSA.
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In the paper by Shi et al. (2015), a new representation language (DOL) has been designed to bridge natural language text and math expressions.
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But, notes Harthill, "the DOL has consistently taken the position that volunteers include individuals who provide services to nonprofits. Interns at nonprofit organizations are thus probably considered 'volunteers,' but they fall into an illusory exemption."
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The DOL filed an amicus brief defending the WHD test (now formulated in Fact Sheet #71) along with an all-or-nothing approach to applying it.
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Because I was so uncomfortably pregnant at the time of Claire's dol and thus couldn't throw a large celebration, we decided to go all out with Aerin's and celebrate both girls' birthdays (since they're so close together anyway) at a small banquet hall.
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The pain in her back was measured as a dol of 5 on the scale.
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In the medical study, patients rated their pain intensity using dol as the measurement unit.
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Historically, a dol was used by doctors to quantify the severity of a patient's discomfort.
Synonyms
A number used to show how strong a person's pain is
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dol comes from the Latin dolor, meaning 'pain', and the same root appears in condolence, which is sympathy for someone's pain. So a dol was once a small unit used to measure how much pain someone felt, which is why it means a pain measurement but is now rarely used.