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Definition and meaning of doing
doing
- present participle of do (verb)
Definitions
do (v.)
1.be what is needed or be good enough for what is required"Does this restaurant fit the bill for the celebration?"
2.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"
3.arrange attractively"dress my hair for the wedding"
4.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"
5.give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally"cause a commotion" "make a stir" "cause an accident"
6.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"
7.travel or traverse (a distance)"This car does 150 miles per hour" "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"
8.carry on or function"We could do with a little more help around here"
9.engage in"make love, not war" "make an effort" "do research" "do nothing" "make revolution"
10.get (something) done"I did my job"
11.carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions"practice law"
12.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"
13.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"
14.spend time in prison or in a labor camp"He did six years for embezzlement"
15.make a tour of a certain place"We toured the Provence this summer"
DO (n.)
1.doctor's degree in osteopathy
2.(abbreviation;grammar)the object that receives the direct action of the verb
do (n.)
1.the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
2.an uproarious party
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Merriam Webster
DoingDo"ing (?), n.; pl. Doings (�). Anything done; a deed; an action good or bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do.
To render an account of his doings. Barrow.
do.do. (�), n. An abbreviation of Ditto.
DoDo (dō), 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 many as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.
dodo (d�), v. t. or auxiliary. [imp. did (dĭd); p. p. done (dŭn); p. pr. & vb. n. Doing (d�"ĭng). This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative, present tense, thus: I do, thou doest (d�"ĕst) or dost (dŭst), he does (dŭz), doeth (d�"ĕth), or doth (dŭth); 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 (dĭdst), formerly didest (dĭd"ĕst).] [AS. dōn; akin to D. doen, OS. duan, OHG. tuon, G. thun, Lith. deti, OSlav. dēti, OIr. dénim I do, Gr. tiqe`nai to put, Skr. dhā, and to E. suffix -dom, and prob. to L. facere to do, E. fact, and perh. to L. -dere in some compounds, as addere to add, credere to trust. √65. 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.
☞ 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
☞ (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.]
As the light does the shadow. Longfellow.
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.
DoDo (?), 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.]
DoDo, 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.]
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Synonyms
doing (n.)
accomplishment, act, action, execution, manoeuvre, operation, performing
DO (n.)
DO (n.) (abbreviation;grammar)
object of the verb, direct object (linguistics)
do (v.)
accomplish, act, answer, arrange, be enough, behave, be sufficient, be up to, carry out, cause, cheat, coif, coiffe, coiffure, come, complete, conclude, cover, decipher, decode, defraud, do the trick, dress, end, enforce, execute, exercise, explore, fare, fill the bill, fit the bill, fulfil, get along, get up to, hack, hold, make, make out, manage, perform, practise, proceed, produce, purge, pursue, render, satisfy, serve, set, solve, suffice, swindle, tour, transact, work, work out, achieve (British), fulfill (American), practice (American)
do (v. trans.)
See also
do (v. trans.)
↘ doer
do (n.)
↘ be on the tiles, be out on the tiles, go on a spree, high liver, merrymaker, reveler, reveller
Phrases
⇨ Doing Business As • be doing well • be in the middle of (doing) something • be up and doing • he ZZZetcZZZ could be doing with / could do with • nothing doing! • talk (someone) into / out of (doing) • talk (someone) into /out of (doing) • talk (someone) into/out of (doing) • think twice about (doing) something • well-doing • what are you ZZZetcZZZ doing with
⇨ Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders • be cut out to do • do (someone) a good turn • do (someone) an injustice • do (someone) credit • do (someone) proud • do (someone) wrong • do (someone/something) justice • do a bunk • do a course • do a favor • do a favour • do a good turn • do a jigsaw • do a job on • do a moonlight flit • do a roaring trade • do a service • do again • do away with • do business • do by • do conjuring tricks • do credit • do damage • do drugs • do exercises • do fine • do for • do good • do great damage • do great damage to • do harm • do homage to • do honor • do honour • do in • do it • do justice • do justice to (someone/something) • do justice to o.s. • do magic • do military service • do needlework • do nothing • do number two • do o.s. justice • do one's best • do one's bit • do one's bit for • do one's damnedest • do one's driving test • do one's level best • do one's military service • do one's shopping • do one's toilet • do one's utmost • do one's worst • do out • do out of • do over again • do overtime • do penance • do poker-work • do puzzles • do pyrography • do s.o.'s hair • do some gardening • do somebody's hair • do sport • do sth. on the side • do sth. to • do the crawl • do the dishes • do the honors • do the honours • do the housekeeping • do the laundry • do the math • do the talking • do the trick • do the twist • do the wash • do the washing • do things by halves • do time • do up • do violence to • do well • do well by • do with • do with (with be or have) • do with (with have) • do without • do work • do wrong • do you mind! • do you speak English • do's and don'ts • do-gooder • do-it-yourself • do-it-yourself kit • do-it-yourself shop • do-it-yourselfer • do-nothing • do-or-die • do-si-do • dog do • have to do with • make do • make do with • make-do • to-do • well-to-do • with much to-do
⇨ Alice in Wonderland (or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?) • Doing DaVinci • Doing Difference • Doing Good and Doing Well • Doing It • Doing It All for My Baby • Doing It Right • Doing It to Death • Doing It to Death (album) • Doing My Country Thing • Doing My Time • Doing Time • Doing Time (2002 film) • Doing Time for Patsy Cline • Doing Time on Maple Drive • Doing Time with Ron Kuby • Doing Too Much • Doing a Cunningham • Doing a Leeds • Doing a Ratner • Doing a Sunderland • Doing business as • Doing the Honours • Ease of Doing Business Index • Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We • Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? • Everybody's Doing It • Evil doing • Father's Doing Fine • Guess I'm Doing Fine • Honestly, I'm Doing Okay • Hot Babes Doing Stuff Naked • I Was Doing All Right • I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight • It's a Business Doing Pleasure • It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You • Keep on Doing • Kristy, Are You Doing Okay? • Learning-by-doing • Never Stop Doing What You Love • SOPHIA (European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children) • Save Each Other, the Whales Are Doing Fine • Seeing and Doing • Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves • Stop Doing Bad Things • The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon • Trust me, I know what I'm doing • We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This • What Am I Doing Here? • What Am I Doing in New Jersey? • What Are These Strawberries Doing on My Nipples? I Need Them For The Fruit Salad! • What Are We Doing In Love • What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? • What She's Doing Now • What You're Doing • What's He Doing in My World • What's a Memory Like You (Doing in a Love Like This) • What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? • Wrong doing • Wrong-doing
⇨ (Everything I Do) I Do It for You • ...I Care Because You Do • 5 (Do As Infinity album) • 8 (Do As Infinity album) • 9 (Do As Infinity album) • Abdias do Nascimento • Agua Doce do Norte, ES, Brazil • Alcacer do Sal • Alda Neves da Graca do Espirito Santo • All I Do Is Dream of You • All I Do Is Think of You • All I Really Want to Do (album) • All I've Got to Do • Anta Grande do Zambujeiro • Anything You Can Do (song) • Aquarela do Brasil • Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) • Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do • Banco Central do Brasil • Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul • Bom Jesus do Norte, ES, Brazil • Born to Do It • Breaking Out Is Hard to Do • Campeonato do Nordeste • Carecas do ABC • Casa da Moeda do Brasil • Cassio Raposo do Amaral • Clube de Regatas do Flamengo • Conceicao do Castelo, ES, Brazil • DO-178B • Daddy Di Do Du • Diante do Trono • Diário do Povo • Diário do Povo (Campinas) • Do (singer) • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? • Do It All Night (Prince song) • Do It Records • Do Jump • Do Me, Baby • Do Not Adjust Your Set • Do Sa Do • Do Something • Do You Believe in Magic (song) • Do You Feel Like We Do • Do You Know (Michelle Williams album) • Do You Know Squarepusher • Do You Know Where You're Going To • Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme From Mahogany) (Diana Ross song) • Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme From Mahogany) (Mariah Carey song) • Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme from Mahogany) • Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme from Mahogany) (Diana Ross song) • Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme from Mahogany) (Mariah Carey song) • Do You Know Where You're Going To? (Theme from Mahogany) (Mariah Carey recording) • Do You Like My Tight Sweater? • Do You Speak American? • Do You Wanna Ride? • Do You Want To • Do You Want to Know a Secret • Do it yourself • Do not resuscitate • Do the A-side • Do the Bartman • Do the Right Thing • Do-Sa-Do • Do-sa-do • Do-si-do • Dores do Rio Preto, ES, Brazil • Dornier Do 17 • Dornier Do 215 • Dornier Do 335 • Dudley Do-Right • Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties • Edson Arantes do Nascimento • Estádio do Algarve • Estádio do Canindé • Estádio do Maracanã • Estádio do Pacaembu • Everything I Do (I Do It for You) • Fernao do Po • Fernão do Pó • Festa do Peão de Boiadeiro • Filipe Neri Antonio Sebastiao do Rosario Ferrao • Fortaleza do Monte • Foz do Iguazú • Fundação Nacional do Indio • GRES Acadêmicos do Salgueiro • Gare do Oriente • Genseiryū Karate-do International Federation • Ghost's Can't Do It • Ghosts Can't Do It • Grande Área Metropolitana do Algarve • Guys Do It All the Time • Hey Hey What Can I Do • Hino do Estado de Santa Catarina • How Do Yeaw View You? • How Do You Want Me? • How Late Do You Have to Be Before You're Absent • How We Do (song) • How do you like Wednesday? • I Can Do Bad All By Myself (play) • I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got • I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself • If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? • Ilha do Bazaruto • Ilha do Retiro • Ilha do Sal • Jeet Kune Do • Jeju-do • Joao do Canto Castro • Jornal do Brasil • João do Canto e Castro • Just Do It • Kim Hong-do • Kyuki Do • Least I Could Do • Let's Do It Again (1953 film) • Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love • Like Humans Do • List of all lists which do not contain themselves • Língua do Pê • Maria do Carmo Silveira • Mato Grosso do Sul • Mimoso do Sul, ES, Brazil • Miranda do Corvo • Miranda do Douro • National Do Not Call Registry • No One Can Do It Better • Nossa Senhora do Livramento • Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Brazil • Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Mato Grosso, Brazil • Oliveira do Hospital • Paraíba do Norte River • Paul do Mar • Peace thru Vandalism / When in Rome Do as the Vandals • Please Do Not Disturb (album) • Ponta do Sol, Madeira • Portas do Cerco • Qwan Ki Do • Rio Grande do Norte • Rio Grande do Sul • Rio Novo do Sul, ES, Brazil • Rua do Cunha • Río Grande do Sul • Sandro do Nasciemento • Santana do Deserto • Santana do Paraíso • Sao Domingos do Norte, ES, Brazil • Sao Jose do Calcado, ES, Brazil • Sao Roque do Canaa, ES, Brazil • Shipley Do-Nuts • Sixteen Years and What Do You Get • So Do They All • Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em • Something You Can Do with Your Finger • São Francisco do Sul • Tao of Jeet Kune Do • That Thing You Do! • The Temptations Do the Temptations • The Way You Do the Things You Do • The Worst You Can Do Is Harm • Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) (Diana Ross song) • Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) (Mariah Carey song) • Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) (Mariah Carey song) • Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To?) • They Do It with Mirrors • Things to Make and Do • Till Death Us Do Part (British TV series) • Transportes Charter do Brasil • Uniao do Vegetal • Universidade do Brasil • Vo Tu Do • What Do You Believe About The Future? • What Do You Know? • What do you do with a Drunken Sailor • What would Jesus do? • What's Love Got to Do with It (album) • What's Love Got to Do with It (film) • What's Love Got to Do with It? • When in Rome Do as the Vandals • Where Do Broken Hearts Go • Who Do I Gotta Kill? • Who Do You Think I Am • Why Do Fools Fall in Love • Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film) • Why Do They Rock So Hard? • Why Do You Love Me • Why Don't We Do It in the Road? • Why Don't You Do Right? • World Tang Soo Do Association • You Can't Do That • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 • You Can't Do That on Television • You Do Something to Me • You Know What to Do
Analogical dictionary
DO (n.)
doctor's degree, doctorate[Hyper.]
DO (n.)
[abbreviation , grammar]
object[Hyper.]
do (n.)
réception (invitation) de gens (fr)[Classe]
repas copieux (fr)[Classe]
partie de débauche (fr)[Classe]
party[Hyper.]
do (v.)
act, act as, play - act, dissemble, pretend[Domaine]
do (v.)
do (v.)
create, make[Hyper.]
undo, unmake[Ant.]
do (v.)
do (v.)
do (v.)
do (v.)
do (v.)
make[Domaine]
do (v.)
mener à terme qqch (fr)[Classe]
do (v.)
do (v.)
go, proceed[Hyper.]
do (v.)
être suffisant (fr)[Classe]
do (v.)
pay the penalty[Classe]
purifier (fr)[Classe...]
purgatoire (enfer chrétien provisoire) (fr)[termes liés]
pass, spend[Hyper.]
do (v.)
visiter (fr)[Classe]
do (v. tr.)
do; make[ClasseHyper.]
do (v. tr.)
[informal , spéc. anglais britannique]
do (v. tr.)
[colloquial , spéc. anglais britannique , de~out of]
Wikipedia - see also
Wikipedia
Do
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Look up do, Do, do-, or .do in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Do may refer to:
- The verb "to do", which may serve as an auxiliary verb
- Do (province) or circuit (道), the Japanese administrative division equivalent to the ancient Chinese dao
- Dō (philosophy) (道, "The Way"), the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese concept of the Tao
- 'do, a slang term for hairstyle (via "hairdo")
- Do (kana), a mora symbol in Japanese writing
- Do, prefix for Dornier Flugzeugwerke aircraft
- Dō (胴), the torso protection in a suit of kendo armor
- .do, the Dominican Republic's internet domain
- Do. or ditto marks
- Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
- GNOME Do, an application launcher for Linux
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 type of buk (drum) used in Korean ritual music
- "Do", a song by The White Stripes from the 1999 album The White Stripes (album)
- The Dø, a French/Finish indie pop band
- D.O. (South Korean singer), a member of the Chinese-South Korean boy band EXO
People:
- Đỗ or Do, a Vietnamese surname derived from the Chinese surname Du
- Do, a Korean surname derived from the Chinese surname Tao
- Do, a cult name for Marshall Applewhite, leader of Heaven's Gate
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