do
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Definitions ofdo
- A party, celebration, social function.
Synonyms: "get-together"
Example: "We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday."
- A hairdo.
Example: "Nice do!"
- Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
- A deed; an act.
- Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
Synonyms: "to-do"
- A cheat; a swindler.
- An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
- To perform; to execute.
Synonyms: accomplish, "carry out", functionate
Example: "All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?"
- To cause, make (someone) (do something).
- To suffice.
Example: "it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks."
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
Example: "It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event."
- (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
Example: "The fresh air did him some good."
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
Example: "Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?"
- (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
Example: "What does Bob do? — He's a plumber."
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
Example: ""Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer."
- To cook.
Example: "I'll just do some eggs."
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
Example: "Let’s do New York also."
- To treat in a certain way.
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
Synonyms: serve
Example: "I did five years for armed robbery."
- To impersonate or depict.
Example: "They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer."
- (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.
Example: "He did a Henry VIII and got married six times."
- To kill.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
Example: "He got done for speeding."
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
Synonyms: "go to bed with", "sleep with"
- To cheat or swindle.
Example: "That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!"
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
Example: "the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie"
- To finish.
- To work as a domestic servant (with for).
- (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- (ditransitive) To make or provide.
Example: "Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?"
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To take drugs.
Example: "I do cocaine."
- (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
Example: "What's that car doing in our swimming pool?"
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