do

do

do¹ [do͞o]

vt.

did, done, doing [ME & OE don, akin to Ger tun, OS duan < IE base * dhē-, to put, place, set > Sans dadhāmi, Gr tithenai, to place, put, L -dere (as in condere, to set down), facere, to do, make]

1.

a) to execute; effect; perform (an act, action, etc.) [do great deeds]

b) to carry out; fulfill [do what I tell you]

2. to bring to completion; finish [dinner has been done for an hour]

3. to bring about; cause; produce [it does no harm; who did this to you?]

4. to exert (efforts, etc.) [do your best]

5. to have or take (a meal) [let's do lunch]

6. to deal with as is required; attend to [do the ironing, do one's nails or hair]

7. to have as one's work or occupation; work at or on [what does he do for a living?]

8. to work out; solve [do a problem]

9. to produce or appear in (a play, etc.) [we did Hamlet]

10.

a) to play the role of [I did Polonius]

b) Informal to imitate, or behave characteristically as [to do a Houdini]

11. to write or publish (a book), compose (a musical score), etc.

12.

a) to cover (distance) [to do a mile in four minutes]

b) to move along at a speed of [to do 60 miles an hour]

13. to visit as a sightseer; tour [they did England in two months]

14. to translate [to do Horace into English]

15. to give; render [to do honor to the dead]

16. to suit; be convenient to [this will do me very well]

17. Informal

a) to prepare; cook [that restaurant does ribs really well]

b) to eat [let's do Mexican tonight]

18. Informal to cheat; swindle [you've been done]

19. Informal to serve (a jail term)

20. Slang to take; ingest; use [we've never done drugs]

21. Slang to perform a sexual act upon; specif., to have sexual intercourse with

22. Slang to kill

vi.

1. to act in a specified way; behave [he does well when treated well]

2. to be active; work [do; don't merely talk]

3. to finish: used in the perfect tense [ have done with dreaming ]

4. to get along; fare [mother and child are doing well]

5. to be adequate or suitable; serve the purpose [the black dress will do]

6. to take place; go on [anything doing tonight?]

7. [Informal, Chiefly Brit.] used as a substitute verb after a modal auxiliary or a form of have in a perfect tense [I haven't seen the film, but she may have done]

v.aux.

1. used to give emphasis, or as a legal convention [do stay a while, do hereby enjoin]

2. used to ask a question [did you write?]

3. used to serve as part of a negative command or statement [do not go, they do not like it]

4. used to serve as a substitute verb [love me as I do (love) you]

5. used to form inverted constructions after some adverbs [little did he realize]

n.

pl. do's or dos

1. [Informal, Chiefly Brit.] a hoax; swindle

2. [Informal, Chiefly Brit.] a party or social event

3. Slang excrement; feces [dog do]

SYN.- PERFORM

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do a deal

Informal to arrange or settle; conclude (a transaction)

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do by

to act toward or for

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do in

1. Slang to kill

2. Informal to tire out; exhaust

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do it

Informal to engage in sexual intercourse

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do over

Informal to redecorate

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do's and don'ts or dos and don'ts

Informal the things permitted or required and the things forbidden; rules and regulations

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do up

1. Informal to prepare

2. to wrap up; tie up; fasten

3. to arrange (the hair) so that it is off the neck and shoulders

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do up right

Informal to do carefully or thoroughly

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do oneself well or do oneself proud [modeled on Ger sich gütlich tun]

to achieve success for oneself

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do with

to make use of; find helpful

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do without

to get along without; dispense with

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have to do with

1. to be related to or connected with

2. to be associated with; deal with

do² [dō]

n.

[It (< dominus, first word of a Latin hymn): used instead of earlier UT: see GAMUT]

Music a syllable representing the first or last tone of the diatonic scale: see SOLFEGGIO

do³ [do͞o]

n.

[Slang]

short for HAIRDO