do

IPA: dˈu

noun

(UK, informal) A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
(chiefly fossilized) Something that can or should be done.
(chiefly obsolete, fossilized in the UK) Something that has been done.
(archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
(obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
(obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
(UK, slang) A homicide.
(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
(grammar) a direct object
(US) a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
(sciences) dissolved oxygen
(informal) Clipping of hairdo. [A hairstyle.]
(dentistry) Initialism of disto occlusal.

verb

(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
(auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
(auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
(auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
(pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
(transitive) To perform; to execute.
(obsolete, transitive) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
(intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
(intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
(ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
(intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
(especially England, intransitive) To fare well; to thrive; to prosper; (of livestock) to fatten.
(transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
To cook.
(transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
(transitive) To treat in a certain way.
(transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
(intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
(transitive) To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
(transitive) To impersonate or depict.
(with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
(transitive, slang) To kill.
(transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
(informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
(transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
(transitive) To cheat or swindle.
(transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
(transitive, intransitive) To finish.
(archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
(stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
(informal, transitive, ditransitive) To make or provide.
(informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
(transitive) To take drugs.
(transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.

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