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do
1 [doo; unstressed doo, duh]
verb and auxiliary verb, present singular 1st person do, 2nd do or (Archaic
) do⋅est or dost, 3rd does or (Archaic
) do⋅eth or doth, present plural do; past singular 1st person did, 2nd did or (Archaic
) didst, 3rd did, past plural did; past participle done; present participle do⋅ing; noun, plural dos, do's.–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to perform (an act, duty, role, etc.): Do nothing until you hear the bell. |
| 2. | to execute (a piece or amount of work): to do a hauling job. |
| 3. | to accomplish; finish; complete: He has already done his homework. |
| 4. | to put forth; exert: Do your best. |
| 5. | to be the cause of (good, harm, credit, etc.); bring about; effect. |
| 6. | to render, give, or pay (homage, justice, etc.). |
| 7. | to deal with, fix, clean, arrange, move, etc., (anything) as the case may require: to do the dishes. |
| 8. | to travel; traverse: We did 30 miles today. |
| 9. | to serve; suffice for: This will do us for the present. |
| 10. | to condone or approve, as by custom or practice: That sort of thing simply isn't done. |
| 11. | to travel at the rate of (a specified speed): He was doing 80 when they arrested him. |
| 12. | to make or prepare: I'll do the salad. |
| 13. | to serve (a term of time) in prison, or, sometimes, in office. |
| 14. | to create, form, or bring into being: She does wonderful oil portraits. |
| 15. | to translate into or change the form or language of: MGM did the book into a movie. |
| 16. | to study or work at or in the field of: I have to do my math tonight. |
| 17. | to explore or travel through as a sightseer: They did Greece in three weeks. |
| 18. | (used with a pronoun, as it or that, or with a general noun, as thing, that refers to a previously mentioned action): You were supposed to write thank-you letters; do it before tomorrow, please. |
| 19. | Informal. to wear out; exhaust; tire: That last set of tennis did me. |
| 20. | Informal. to cheat, trick, or take advantage of: That crooked dealer did him for $500 at poker. |
| 21. | Informal. to attend or participate in: Let's do lunch next week. |
| 22. | Slang. to use (a drug or drugs), esp. habitually: The police report said he was doing cocaine. |
–verb (used without object)
| 23. | to act or conduct oneself; be in action; behave. |
| 24. | Slang. to rob; steal from: The law got him for doing a lot of banks. |
| 25. | to proceed: to do wisely. |
| 26. | to get along; fare; manage: to do without an automobile. |
| 27. | to be in health, as specified: Mother and child are doing fine. |
| 28. | to serve or be satisfactory, as for the purpose; be enough; suffice: Will this do? |
| 29. | to finish or be finished. |
| 30. | to happen; take place; transpire: What's doing at the office? |
| 31. | (used as a substitute to avoid repetition of a verb or full verb expression): I think as you do. |
–auxiliary verb
| 32. | (used in interrogative, negative, and inverted constructions): Do you like music? I don't care. Seldom do we witness such catastrophes. |
| 33. | Archaic. (used in imperatives with you or thou expressed; and occasionally as a metric filler in verse): Do thou hasten to the king's side. The wind did blow, the rain did fall. |
| 34. | (used to lend emphasis to a principal verb): Do visit us! |
–noun
—Verb phrases| 35. | Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion. |
| 36. | Informal. a hairdo or hair styling. |
| 37. | British Slang. a swindle; hoax. |
| 38. | Chiefly British. a festive social gathering; party. |
| 39. | do by, to deal with; treat: He had always done well by his family. |
| 40. | do for,
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| 41. | do in, Informal.
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| 42. | do over, to redecorate. |
| 43. | do up, Informal.
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| 44. | do with, to gain advantage or benefit from; make use of: I could do with more leisure time. |
| 45. | do without,
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| 46. | do a number on (someone). number (def. 39). |
| 47. | do away with,
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| 48. | do one proud. proud (def. 11). |
| 49. | do one's number. number (def. 40). |
| 50. | do one's (own) thing. thing 1 (def. 19). |
| 51. | do or die, to make a supreme effort. |
| 52. | do out of, Informal. to swindle; cheat: A furniture store did me out of several hundred dollars. |
| 53. | dos and don'ts, customs, rules, or regulations: The dos and don'ts of polite manners are easy to learn. |
| 54. | do time, Informal. to serve a term in prison: It's hard to get a decent job once you've done time. |
| 55. | do to death. death (def. 15). |
| 56. | have to do with. have (def. 37). |
| 57. | make do, to get along with what is at hand, despite its inadequacy: I can't afford a new coat so I have to make do with this one. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE dōn; c. D doen, G tun; akin to L -dere to put, facere to make, do, Gk tithénai to set, put, Skt dadhāti (he) puts
bef. 900; ME, OE dōn; c. D doen, G tun; akin to L -dere to put, facere to make, do, Gk tithénai to set, put, Skt dadhāti (he) puts

Synonyms:
1, 25. act. 3. Do, accomplish, achieve mean to bring some action to a conclusion. Do is the general word: He did a great deal of hard work. Accomplish and achieve both connote successful completion of an undertaking. Accomplish emphasizes attaining a desired goal through effort, skill, and perseverance: to accomplish what one has hoped for. Achieve emphasizes accomplishing something important, excellent, or great: to achieve a major breakthrough.
1, 25. act. 3. Do, accomplish, achieve mean to bring some action to a conclusion. Do is the general word: He did a great deal of hard work. Accomplish and achieve both connote successful completion of an undertaking. Accomplish emphasizes attaining a desired goal through effort, skill, and perseverance: to accomplish what one has hoped for. Achieve emphasizes accomplishing something important, excellent, or great: to achieve a major breakthrough.
do.
D/O
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Also, d.o.
D.O.
| 1. | Also, DO, d.o. direct object. |
| 2. | Doctor of Optometry. |
| 3. | Doctor of Osteopathy. |
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| Main Entry: | DO |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See dissolved oxygen |
Language Translation for : do
Spanish:
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German:
Hilfsverb in Fragen und bei Verneinung,
Japanese:
疑問・否定文と
Do
Do.\, n. An abbreviation of Ditto.Do
Do\ (d[=o]), n. (Mus.) A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.Do
Do\, v. t. or auxiliary. [imp. Din; p. p. Done; p. pr. & vb. n. Doing. This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative, present tense, thus: I do, thou doest (?) or dost ?, he does (?), doeth (?), or doth (?); when auxiliary, the second person is, thou dost. As an independent verb, dost is obsolete or rare, except in poetry. "What dost thou in this world?" --Milton. The form doeth is a verb unlimited, doth, formerly so used, now being the auxiliary form. The second pers, sing., imperfect tense, is didst (?), formerly didest (?).] [AS. d?n; akin to D. doen, OS. duan, OHG. tuon, G. thun, Lith. deti, OSlav. d?ti, OIr. d['e]nim I do, Gr. ? to put, Skr. dh[=a], and to E. suffix -dom, and prob. to L. facere to do, E. fact, and perh. to L. -dere in some compounfds, as addere to add, credere to trust. ??? Cf. Deed, Deem, Doom, Fact, Creed, Theme.]1. To place; to put. [Obs.] --Tale of a Usurer (about 1330). 2. To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.] My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. --W. Caxton. I shall . . . your cloister do make. --Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. --Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. --2 Cor. viii. 1. Note: We have lost the idiom shown by the citations (do used like the French faire or laisser), in which the verb in the infinitive apparently, but not really, has a passive signification, i. e., cause . . . to be made. 3. To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve. The neglecting it may do much danger. --Shak. He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good not harm. --Shak. 4. To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. --Ex. xx. 9. We did not do these things. --Ld. Lytton. You can not do wrong without suffering wrong. --Emerson. Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc. 5. To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done. "Ere summer half be done." "I have done weeping." --Shak. 6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only. 7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text. Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak. The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley. Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. --Thackeray. To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. -- W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. --Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. -- Macaulay. 8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey. 9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.] 10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. Note: (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an auxiliary the verb do has no participle. "I do set my bow in the cloud." --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or rare except for emphatic assertion.] Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay. (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. "You don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so." --Sir W. Scott. "I did love him, but scorn him now." --Latham. (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and did are in common use. I do not wish to see them; what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He did not. "Do you love me?" --Shak. (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." --Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. "When beauty lived and died as flowers do now." --Shak. "I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." --Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite." --Dryden. To do one's best, To do one's diligence (and the like), to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts. "We will . . . do our best to gain their assent." --Jowett (Thucyd.). To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley. To do one shame, to cause one shame. [Obs.] To do over. (a) To make over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." --De Foe. To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." --Hawthorne. To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. "Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they would not know what to do with themselves." --Tillotson. To have to do with, to have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. "Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense." --Earle. "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam. xvi. 10.Do
Do\, v. i. 1. To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self. They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . . the law and commandment. -- 2 Kings xvii. 34. 2. To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day? 3. [Perh. a different word. OE. dugen, dowen, to avail, be of use, AS. dugan. See Doughty.] To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do. You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. -- Collier. To do by. See under By. To do for. (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit. (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. --Thackeray. To do withal, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] "I could not do withal." --Shak. To do without, to get along without; to dispense with. To have done, to have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist. To have done with, to have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with. Well to do, in easy circumstances.Do
Do\, n. 1. Deed; act; fear. [Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. 2. Ado; bustle; stir; to do. [R.] A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble. -- Selden. 3. A cheat; a swindle. [Slang, Eng.]Do
Do\, v. t. 1. To perform work upon, about, for, or at, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, or the like. The sergeants seem to do themselves pretty well. --Harper's Mag. 2. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for. [Colloq. or Slang] Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets, and fracture his skull, . . . or break his arm, or cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call doing him. --Charles Reade.
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M.E. do, first person singular of O.E. don, from W.Gmc. *don, from PIE base *dhe- "to put, place, do, make" (see factitious). Slang meaning "to do the sex act with or to" is from 1913. Second person does was a Northumbrian variant in O.E. that displaced doth, doeth 16c.-17c. The pt. did is O.E. dyde, the only remainder in Gmc. of the old linguistic pattern of forming a pt. by reduplication of the stem of the present tense. Far back in Gmc. the equivalent of did was used as a suffix to make the past tenses of other verbs, hence the English -ed suffix (O.E. -de). The pp. done grew out of O.E. pp. gedon, but the only vestige of the prefix is in ado. Periphrastic form in negative sentences ("They did not think") replaced the O.E. negative particles ("Hie ne wendon"). U.S. Southern use of done in phrases like "he done gone to the store" is attested from 1827, according to OED: "a perfective auxiliary or with adverbial force in the sense 'already; completely.' " Slang done for "doomed" is from 1842. Doable has been around since 1449. Expression do or die is attested from 1621. Contraction don't for do not is first recorded 1672.
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Main Entry: do
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: did; done; do·ing; does
transitive verb 1 : PERFORM, EXECUTE
2 : COMMIT <did this act of cruelty> verbal auxiliary —used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language <do hereby bequeath>—do business : to be engaged in business activities (as soliciting sales); specifically : to engage in activities sufficient to subject a foreign company to the personal jurisdiction of a state
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Main Entry: DO
Function: abbreviation
1 doctor of optometry
2 doctor of osteopathy
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