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Audio Help [doo; unstressed doo, duh] Pronunciation Key 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.
Audio Help [doo; unstressed doo, duh] Pronunciation Key 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)
–verb (used without object)
–auxiliary verb
–noun
—Verb phrases
—Idioms
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| 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. thing1 (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
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] —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.
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Audio Help [doh] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural dos. Music.
| 1. | the syllable used for the first tone or keynote of a diatonic scale. |
| 2. | (in the fixed system of solmization) the tone C. Compare sol-fa (def. 1), ut. |
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D.O.
| 1. | Also, DO, d.o. direct object. |
| 2. | Doctor of Optometry. |
| 3. | Doctor of Osteopathy. |
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D/O
| delivery order. |
Also, d.o.
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v. did (dĭd), done (dŭn), do·ing, does (dŭz) v. tr.
v. intr.
v. aux.
n. pl. dos or do's
Phrasal Verb(s): do by To behave with respect to; deal with: The children have done well by their aged parents. do for To care or provide for; take care of. do in Slang
To manage despite the absence of: We had to do without a telephone on the island. Idiom(s): can/could do without To prefer not to experience or deal with: I could do without their complaints. Idiom(s): do a disappearing act Informal To vanish. Idiom(s): do away with
Idiom(s): do it Vulgar Slang To engage in sexual intercourse. Idiom(s): do (one) proud To act or perform in a way that gives cause for pride. Idiom(s): do (one's) bit To make an individual contribution toward an overall effort. Idiom(s): do (one's) business Slang To defecate. Used especially of a pet. Idiom(s): do (one's) own thing Slang To do what one does best or finds most enjoyable: "I get paid to try cases and to do my thing on trial" (Bruce Cutler). [Middle English don, from Old English dōn; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.] |
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n. Music The first tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio. [Italian, more singable replacement of ut; see gamut.] |
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n. pl. dos Slang A hairdo. |
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| Main Entry: | DO |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See dissolved oxygen |
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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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noun | |
| 1. | an uproarious party [syn: bash] |
| 2. | the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization |
| 3. | doctor's degree in osteopathy [syn: Doctor of Osteopathy] |
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| 1. | engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" [syn: make] |
| 2. | 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" [syn: perform] |
| 3. | get (something) done; "I did my job" |
| 4. | 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. | give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" [syn: cause] |
| 6. | carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice law" [syn: practice] |
| 7. | 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" [syn: suffice] |
| 8. | 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" [ant: undo] |
| 9. | 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" [syn: act] |
| 10. | spend time in prison or in a labor camp; "He did six years for embezzlement" [syn: serve] |
| 11. | carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help around here" |
| 12. | arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" [syn: dress] |
| 13. | travel or traverse (a distance); "This car does 150 miles per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day" |
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do1 [duː] verb — 3rd person singular present tense does [daz]; past tense did [did]; past participle done [dan]; negative short forms don't [dount], doesn't [ˈdaznt], didn't [ˈdidnt]
used with a more important verb in questions and negative statements
Example: Do you smoke?
do2 [duː] verbExample: Do you smoke?
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used with a more important verb for emphasis; I did buy a ticket but I must have lost it; Do sit down
do3 [duː] verb
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used to avoid repeating a verb which comes immediately before
Example: I thought she wouldn't come, but she did.
do4 [duː] verbExample: I thought she wouldn't come, but she did.
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used with a more important verb after seldom, ~rarely and little
Example: Little did he know what was in store for him.
do5 [duː] verbExample: Little did he know what was in store for him.
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to carry out or perform
Example: What shall I do?; That was a terrible thing to do.
do6 [duː] verbExample: What shall I do?; That was a terrible thing to do.
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to manage to finish or complete
Example: When you've done that, you can start on this; We did a hundred kilometres in an hour.
do7 [duː] verbExample: When you've done that, you can start on this; We did a hundred kilometres in an hour.
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to perform an activity concerning something
Example: to do the washing; to do the garden / the windows
do8 [duː] verbExample: to do the washing; to do the garden / the windows
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to be enough or suitable for a purpose
Example: Will this piece of fish do two of us?; That'll do nicely; Do you want me to look for a blue one or will a pink one do?; Will next Saturday do for our next meeting?
do9 [duː] verbExample: Will this piece of fish do two of us?; That'll do nicely; Do you want me to look for a blue one or will a pink one do?; Will next Saturday do for our next meeting?
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to work at or study
Example: She's doing sums; He's at university doing science.
do10 [duː] verbExample: She's doing sums; He's at university doing science.
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to manage or prosper
Example: How's your wife doing?; My son is doing well at school.
do11 [duː] verbExample: How's your wife doing?; My son is doing well at school.
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to put in order or arrange
Example: She's doing her hair.
do12 [duː] verbExample: She's doing her hair.
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to act or behave
Example: Why don't you do as we do?
do13 [duː] verbExample: Why don't you do as we do?
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to give or show
Example: The whole town gathered to do him honour.
do14 [duː] verbExample: The whole town gathered to do him honour.
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to cause
Example: What damage did the storm do?; It won't do him any harm.
do15 [duː] verbExample: What damage did the storm do?; It won't do him any harm.
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to see everything and visit everything in
Example: They tried to do London in four days.
Example: They tried to do London in four days.
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