do

verb

1. (auxiliary)A syntactic marker.

   “Do you go there often?”

2. (auxiliary)A syntactic marker.

   “I do not go there often.”

   “Do not listen to him.”

   ““Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.”

3. (auxiliary)A syntactic marker.

   “But I do go sometimes.”

   “Do tell us.”

   “Boy, did I make a mistake!”

   “That's not true: I always do say please and thank-you.”

   “So who did marry the Princess in the end?”

4. (auxiliary)A syntactic marker.

   “I play tennis; she does too.”

   “Likes her cappuccino, Mary does. (UK, colloquial)”

   “Your remarks piqued my curiosity, as it did my mom's too.”

   “They don't think it be like it is, but it do.”

   “Don't be a naughty baby, / Come to papa, come to papa, do! / My sweet embraceable you.”

5. (auxiliary, informal, interrogative, modal)A syntactic marker.

   “Do I just call every number on the list each time?”

6. (auxiliary, dialectal)A syntactic marker.

   “...An' the dogs do bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water do roar at mill.”

7. (transitive)To perform; to execute.

   “If you want something done, do it yourself.”

   “All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?”

   “I love doing puzzles, especially crosswords, but lately I've taken to sudokus too.”

   “The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.”

8. (obsolete, transitive)To cause or make (someone) (do something).

   “And also my lorde abbot of westmynster ded do shewe to me late, certayn euydences wryton in olde englysshe […];”

   “Sometimes to do him laugh, ſhe would aſſay / To laugh at ſhaking off the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke […]”

   “Emongſt the reſt a wicked maladie / Raign’d emongſt men, that manie did to die,[…]”

   “MOreouer, brethren, wee do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God beſtowed on the Churches of Macedonia,[…]”

9. (ambitransitive)To suffice.

   “make it do or do without”

   “it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks.”

   ““Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.”

   “"Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.”

10. (intransitive)To be reasonable or acceptable.

    “It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.”

11. (ditransitive)To have (as an effect).

    “The fresh air did him some good.”

12. (intransitive)To fare, perform (well or poorly).

    “Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?”

    “Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.”

13. (England, especially, intransitive)To fare, perform (well or poorly).

    “A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food at that [—] to keep it doing […]”

    “That farm would go like a rick a-fire. It would do: it would go forward and prosper and make him his money.”

14. (transitive)To have as one's job.

    “What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.”

15. (transitive)To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).

    “Don't forget to do your report!”

16. (transitive)To cook.

    “I'll just do some eggs.”

    “It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.”

    “We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.”

    “Next morning, they woke about ten o'clock, Kev, went for a shower while Alice, did some toast, put the kettle on, and when he came out, she went in.”

17. (transitive)To travel in or through, to tour, to make a circuit of.

    “Let’s do New York also.”

    “We 'did' London to our hearts' content,—thanks to Fred and Frank,—and were sorry to go away; […]”

    “After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London […]”

    “No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker […]”

    “We got to travel the globe. We did Asia. That's what they say, isn't it? "Did." You know, the globetrotters. Palin. Alan Whicker. We did China. We did Malaysia. Kathmandu was very much a case of Kathman-did.”

18. (transitive)To treat in a certain way.

    “They did me well, I assure you—uncommon well: Bollinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince; […]”

    “Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.”

    “"Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."”

    “Christmas, why you gotta do me like this / I always embraced you / Held you close inside my heart”

19. (transitive)To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.

    “The woman-who-did did not do very well, Juliet thought.”

20. (intransitive, obsolete)To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.

    “Vnto this day they doe after the former manners: they feare not the Lord, neither doe they after their Statutes, or after their Ordinances, or after the Law and Commaundement which the Lord commaunded the children of Iacob, whom hee named Iſrael,[…]”

21. (transitive)To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)

    “I did five years for armed robbery.”

22. (transitive)To impersonate or depict.

    “They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.”

23. (place, transitive, usually)To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.

    “He did a Henry VIII and got married six times.”

    “He was planning to do a 9/11.”

24. (slang, transitive)To kill.

    “Case pulled the .22 out of his pocket and levelled it at Wage's crotch. “I hear you wanna do me.””

    “About a year ago, a boy name Brandon got got here in Baltimore. Stuck and burned before he passed. […] Wasn't no need for y'all to do him the way y'all did.”

    “He's gonna do me, Jarvis. I kid you not, this time he's gonna do me proper.”

    “The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.”

25. (slang, transitive)To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.

    “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.”

26. (informal, transitive)To punish for a misdemeanor.

    “He got done for speeding.”

    “Teacher'll do you for that!”

27. (slang, transitive)To have sex with. (See also do it)

    “Deme[trius]. Villaine vvhat haſt thou done? / A[aron]. That vvhich thou canſt not vndoe. / Chiron. Thou haſt vndone our mother. / Aron. Villaine I haue done thy mother.”

    “[…] one day I did her on the kitchen table, and several times on the dining-room table.”

    “The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.”

28. (transitive)To cheat or swindle.

    “That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!”

    “He was not to be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.”

29. (transitive)To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.

    “the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie”

30. (ambitransitive)To finish.
31. (transitive)To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
32. (ditransitive, informal)To make or provide.

    “Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?”

33. (informal, transitive)To provide as a service.

    “Do they do haircuts there?”

34. (informal, transitive)To injure (one's own body part).

    “"Defender Kolo Toure admitted Given will be a loss, but gave his backing to Nielsen. 'I think he's done his shoulder,' said the Ivorian."”

    “"Watto will spend the entire winter stretching and doing Pilates, and do a hamstring after bending down to pick up his petrol cap after dropping it filling his car at Caltex Cronulla."”

    “"'I knew straight away I'd done my ACL, I heard the sound - it was very loud and a few of the boys said they heard it as well,' Otten said."”

35. (transitive)To take (a drug).

    “I do cocaine.”

36. (transitive)To exist with a purpose or for a reason.

    “What's that car doing in our swimming pool?”

37. (informal, transitive)To drive a vehicle at a certain speed, especially in regard to a speed limit.

    “He was doing 50 [miles per hour] in a school zone.”

38. (adjective, verb)To perform something suggested by a following noun, verb, or adjective.

    “did a listen do someone a frighten doing her a cute”

    “Is your significant other doing you a heckin distress?”

    “When they stick out their tongues, they're doing a mlem, a blep, a blop. They bork. They boof.”

    “Woof woof! I’m the goodest boi! I will do you all a protecc (in exchange for yummy treats and full medical, dental, and vision care).”

    “hey there hope ya dont mind if I do a cronch (I luv the house salad) […] henlo mom / doin a heckin picturesque / the cuter i look / the more treatos i consume”

noun

1. (UK, informal)A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.

   “We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.”

   “She was into French cuisine but I ain't no Cordon Bleu / This was at some do in Palmers Green, I had no luck with her”

   “A gross-gutted, bulb-nosed, bourbon-stanky Boston flatfoot in plain clothes wrinkled white sox, with a race track tip-sheet stuffed in his back pocket trying real hard to mingle unnoticed at an elegant Buddies "do" to glean inside-dope.”

   “[…]; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)Clipping of hairdo.

   “Nice do!”

   “I don't like to spend time on my hairstyle, so I usually just wear a do-rag.”

   “I like the new do.”

3. Something that can or should be done.

   “Don’t forget the dos and don’ts.”

   “With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos."”

4. (obsolete)Something that has been done.

   “"How come you quit?" "I'm moving to London." "Fair dos."”

5. (archaic)Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.

   “A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble.”

6. (UK, obsolete, slang)A cheat; a swindler.
7. (UK, obsolete, slang)An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
8. (UK, slang)A homicide.

   “Get it done, no not properly Them man thought that they got me True, I came back like a fucking zombie Attempted do with the ching Have an opp boy say “please don’t chong me!””

9. A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of direct object.
11. (US, countable, uncountable)a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of dissolved oxygen.
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of disto-occlusal.

adv

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, not-comparable)Abbreviation of ditto.

   “Softest flowers, .. J. P. Robson, 335 / Stars of Hartlepool, .. do 356”

   “Michael Higgins, 51, Back lane / John Mulligan, 53, do”

num

1. The cardinal number occurring after el and before do one in a duodecimal system. Written 10, decimal value 12.