Dictionary Definition
do
Noun
3 doctor's degree in osteopathy [syn: Doctor
of Osteopathy]
Verb
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, execute]
3 get (something) done; "I did my job" [syn:
perform]
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" [syn: fare,
make
out, come, get
along]
5 give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not
always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an
accident" [syn: cause,
make]
6 carry out or practice; as of jobs and
professions; "practice law" [syn: practice, practise, exercise]
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, answer, serve]
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" [syn: make]
[ant: unmake]
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, behave]
10 spend time in prison or in a labor camp; "He
did six years for embezzlement" [syn: serve]
11 carry on or manage; "We could do with a little
more help around here" [syn: manage]
12 arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the
wedding" [syn: dress,
arrange, set, coif, coiffe, coiffure]
13 travel or traverse (a distance); "This car
does 150 miles per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"
[also: done, did]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
From don, from , from ‘put, place, do, make’.Cognates include German tun French faire, Spanish
hacer, Greek θέτω, Lithuanian deti, Czech diti, Polish dziać,
Russian девать, and Russian делать.
Noun
Usage notes
For the plural of the noun, the spelling dos would be correct; do’s is often used for the sake of legibility, but is sometimes considered incorrect.Synonyms
Translations
function, celebration, party
- Dutch: gedoe, feest, fuif qualifier Flemish
- Finnish: pirskeet, juhlat
period of confusion or argument
- Dutch: gedoe, ruzie
hairdo
- Dutch: snit
- Finnish: kampaus
Verb
- Another archaic form is the second-person singular present tense dost.
- A syntactic
marker in questions.
- Do you go?
- A syntactic marker in negations.
- I do not go.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis.
- But I do go.
- A syntactic marker to avoid repetition of an earlier
verb.
- I play tennis; he does too.
- To perform, to
execute.
- All you ever do is surf the internet.
- intransitive transitive To suffice.
- It’s not the best broom, but it will have to do.
- This will do me, thanks.
- It’s not the best broom, but it will have to do.
- To be reasonable
or acceptable.
- It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
- To have (as an effect).
- The fresh air did him some good.
- To fare; to succeed or
fail.
- Our relationship isn't doing very well.
- How do you do?
- Our relationship isn't doing very well.
- To have as one's job.
- What do you do?
- To cook.
- I like my steak well done.
- To travel to.
- Let’s do New York also.
- To take care of, to be well.
- To spend (time) in jail.
- I did five years for armed robbery.
- To impersonate.
- They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
- transitive slang To attack or mistreat (someone).
- transitive slang To kill.
- transitive slang To
have sex with. (See also
do it)
- I'm gonna do him tonight.
- To cheat or swindle.
- That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
- To convert into a
certain form; especially, to translate.
- The novel has just been done into English.
- I'm going to do do this play into a movie.
- The novel has just been done into English.
- transitive intransitive To finish.
- Aren't you done yet?
perform, execute
- Albanian: bën
- Arabic:
- Basque: egin
- Catalan: fer
- Chinese: 做 (zuò)
- Croatian: činiti
- Czech: dělat
- Danish: gøre, udføre
- Dutch: doen
- Estonian: tegema
- Finnish: tehdä
- French: faire
- Galician: facer
- Georgian: კეთება (ket‘eba)
- German: tun, machen
- Greek: κάμνω
- Hebrew: לעשות (la'asot)
- Hindi: करना (karnā)
- Hungarian: tesz, csinál
- Icelandic: gera, gjöra
- Indonesian: buat, melakukan
- Irish: déan
- Italian: fare
- Japanese: する (surú), やる (yaru), なさる (nasaru) italbrac polite, 致す (itasu) italbrac humble
- Korean: 하다 (hada)
- Kurdish:
- Lao: ເຮັດ
- Latin: facere, agere
- Maltese: għamel
- Nepali: गर (gara)
- Norwegian: gjøre
- Occitan: far
- Old English: don
- Persian: (kærdæn), (kon) italbrac present tense
- Polish: robić , zrobić
- Portuguese: fazer
- Romanian: face
- Romansch: far
- Russian: делать (djélat’) , сделать (sdjélat’)
- Sardinian (Campidanese): fai
- Scots: dae
- Scottish Gaelic: dèan
- Sindhi:
- Slovene: storiti, narediti
- Spanish: hacer
- Swedish: göra
- Turkish: yapmak, etmek
- Urdu: (karnā)
- Vietnamese: làm, thực hiện
slang: attack
- Dutch: doen, aanvallen
- Kurdish: êriş
slang: have sex with
work, suffice
be reasonable or acceptable
in questions
- Dutch: translated by inversion
- Esperanto: not translated
- Finnish: -ko, -kö
- French: est-ce que
- German: not translated, tun
- Italian: not translated
- Kurdish: gelo, aya, ma
- Old English: don
- Turkish: acaba
- Vietnamese: subject + có + predicate + không; có phải (là) ... không
in negations
- Dutch: not translated
- Esperanto: not translated
- Finnish: not translated
- French: not translated
- Italian: not translated
- Old English: don
- Vietnamese: not translated
for emphasis
to avoid repetition
- Danish: gøre
- Dutch: not translated
- Esperanto: not translated
- Finnish: not translated
- French: not translated
- Italian: not translated
- Old English: don
cook
- Dutch: bakken, koken
- Finnish: kypsentää, paistaa
- Slovene: skuhati
visit
- Dutch: doen, bezoeken
be exhausted, finished, ready
- Dutch: eraan zijn, klaar zijn, kapot zijn
- Maltese: mgħamul
take care of, be well
- Dutch: deugddoen, goeddoen
be in jail
- Dutch: zitten
- Finnish: istua
These may all be "identical" translations that
should be copied to all translation sections above, as well as
Noun meanings.
Native speakers please verify.
Translations to be checked
Etymology 2
From do.Alternative spellings
Noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
Translations
tonic of a major scale
- Dutch: do
do
Albanian
Bosnian
Catalan
Etymology
From donumCroatian
Czech
Pronunciation
Preposition
Dutch
Etymology
From do.Pronunciation
- /do/, /do/
- Rhymes with: -nl|o
Esperanto
French
Pronunciation
- /do/, /do/
- Rhymes with: -fr|o
Noun
fr-noun m- do, the musical note
Synonyms
Irish
Pronunciation
- sense preposition lang=ga|[d̪ˠɔ]|[d̪ˠə]
- a Connemara and the Aran Islands lang=ga|[ɡə]
- sense pronoun lang=ga|[d̪ˠə]
Usage notes
Triggers lenition of a following consonant. Used only before consonant sounds.Related terms
- d' qualifier used before a vowel sound
Usage notes
Triggers lenition of a following consonant. Used only before consonant sounds.Related terms
- d' qualifier used before a vowel sound
Verb
Japanese
Latin
Etymology
Cognates include Ancient Greek sc=polytonic, Sanskrit sc=Deva, Old Persian sc=Xpeo.Pronunciation
- /doː/
Lojban
Pronoun
Norwegian
Etymology 1
Possibly abbreviated form of "do-hus" (do house) from don (do).Noun
Etymology 2
Noun
do- do, the musical note
Polish
Pronunciation
- /dɔ/
Etymology
From , from .Portuguese
Etymology
Contraction of the preposition de and the definite article o or the demonstrative pronoun o.Scottish Gaelic
Possessive pronoun
doPrepositional Pronoun
doDerived terms
Serbian
Pronunciation
Cyrillic spelling
Slovak
Turkish
Noun
- C, the musical note
Conjunction
Welsh
West Frisian
Pronoun
Extensive Definition
Do may refer to:
- Do (verb)
- Dō (道) or Tao, the way and order of the universe in Chinese philosophy
- Do (province) or Dao, a political division in China, Korea, and Japan
- Do. or ditto marks
In music:
- Do (musical note), the first note of the musical scale in solfege
- Do
(singer) or Dominique van Hulst, a Dutch singer
- Do (album), an album by Do
- "Do", a song by The White Stripes from the 1999 album The White Stripes
- Do (drum), a drum used in Korean ritual music
Do may also be used for:
- Do (kana), a mora symbol in Japanese writing
- Dō (胴), the torso protector part of Bōgu, kendo armor
- Do (surname), a Vietnamese surname (and list of people with that name)
- .do, the country code top-level domain for the Dominican Republic
- .do, a pseudo file extension representing an Apache Struts action. It does not map to an actual file extension, although it appears that way.
- Do, a prefix used by Dornier Flugzeugwerke aircraft
- Do, the nickname of Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult
- Do, short for hairdo
See also
do in German: DO
do in French: Do
do in Korean: DO
do in Italian: DO
do in Dutch: Do
do in Japanese: DO
do in Norwegian: DO
do in Polish: Do
do in Kölsch: DO (Watt ėßß datt?)
do in Finnish: Do
do in Swedish: Do
do in Turkish: Do (anlam ayrım)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
I beg you, Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, accompany, accomplish, achieve, acquit, act, act a part, act as, act like,
act out, advantage,
affect, answer, ape, appear, arrival, assister, assume, attain, attend, author, avail, bake, banquet, barbecue, baste, be OK, be about, be at, be
doing, be engaged in, be equal to, be good enough, be handy, be
occupied with, be of use, be present at, be productive, bear, beat, beget, behave, benefit, bestead, betide, bilk, blanch, blowout, boil, borrow, bottom, braise, break, breed, brew, bring about, bring forth,
bring into being, bring off, bring to effect, bring to fruition,
bring to pass, broil,
brown, carnival, carry into execution,
carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, chance, cheat, chord, chorus, chouse, clear up, clip off,
coddle, come off, come
to, commit, compass, complete, comport, conceive, concertize, conclude, conduct, consummate, cook, copy, counterfeit, course, cover, cozen, crack, create, crib, curry, deal with, debug, decipher, decode, defraud, demean, deport, determine, develop, devil, diddle, discharge, discourse, disentangle, dispatch, dispose of, ditto, divine, do it, do like, do out
of, do the job, do the trick, do to, do to perfection, dope, dope out, echo, effect, effectuate, employ, enact, end, engage in, engender, engineer, establish, execute, exercise, explain, fair, fake, fall out, fare, father, fathom, feast, festival, festive occasion,
festivity, fetch, fete, field day, fiesta, figure out, fill the
bill, find out, find the answer, find the solution, finish, fire, fit, flimflam, follow, forge, found, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fulfill, gala, gala affair, gala day,
generate, gestate, get, get along, get by, get on, get
right, give birth to, give good returns, give occasion to, give
origin to, give rise to, go,
go and do, go around, go at, go in for, go like, go on, go over, go
to, great doings, griddle, grill, guess, guess right, gyp, hack it, halt, have it, have the goodness,
heat, high jinks, hit, hit it, hoke, hoke up, hold, if you please, imitate, impersonate, inaugurate, industrialize, inflict, institute, interpret, jamboree, just do, kermis, knock off, look on,
make, make like, make
music, make out, make the grade, manage, masquerade as,
mass-produce, measure,
meet, meet requirements,
mime, mimic, mirror, misbehave, move, muddle through, occasion, occur, open the lock, originate, oven-bake, overpass, overproduce, overreach, pan, pan-broil, pantomime, parboil, party, pass, pass for, pass muster, pass
over, pass through, patrol, pay, pay off, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, perform, perpetrate, personate, picnic, plagiarize, play, play a part, play by ear,
playact, please, plumb, ply, poach, polish off, pose as,
practice, pray, pray do, prepare, prepare food, pretend
to be, prithee, proceed, produce, profit, prosecute, psych, psych out, pull off,
pursue, put away, puzzle
out, qualify, quit, range, range over, ravel, ravel out, reach, realize, reconnoiter, reecho, reflect, relate, render, repeat, resolve, riddle, roast, satisfy, saute, scallop, scour, scour the country, scout, sear, see, serve, serve the purpose, set
afloat, set on foot, set up, shirr, show up, simmer, simulate, sire, sit in, solve, sort out, specialize in,
stagger, stand, stand up, steam, stew, stir-fry, stretch, succeed, suffice, suit, sweep, symphonize, tackle, take and do, take care
of, take in, take it, take off, take on, take to, take up, terminate, toast, track, transit, transpire, travel over, travel
through, traverse, turn
the trick, turn up, undertake, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, up and do, use, visit, volume-produce, voyage, wage, watch, waygoose, wayzgoose, will you, wind up,
witness, work, work at, work out, wrap up,
wreak, yield a
profit