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.
adverb
- (archaic) Abbreviation of ditto. [As said before, likewise.]
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Examples of "do" in Sentences
- Where do tanners work
- He was too effete to do that work.
- Let the machine do the stupid work.
- He did not do the work of a biologist.
- The boss reassigned him to do the work there.
- The rookie was complemented for doing the work well.
- His actions were aberrant and do not define the group.
- In this instance, it is the publisher doing the defining of the work.
- Do you think the actions of the rioters are morally acceptable or not
- The links provided in the article do not attest to the nature of this act.
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