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ALL meanings of do

do
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  • intransitive verb do to be adequate or suitable; serve the purpose 0
  • intransitive verb do to take place; go on 0
  • intransitive verb do used as a substitute verb after a modal auxiliary or a form of have in a perfect tense 0
  • auxiliary verb do used to give emphasis, or as a legal convention 0
  • auxiliary verb do used to ask a question 0
  • auxiliary verb do used to serve as part of a negative command or statement 0
  • auxiliary verb do used to serve as a substitute verb 0
  • auxiliary verb do used to form inverted constructions after some adverbs 0
  • noun do a hoax; swindle 0
  • noun do a party or social event 0
  • noun do excrement; feces 0
  • noun do a syllable representing the first or last tone of the diatonic scale 0
  • noun do (Colloquial) A party, celebration, social function. 0
  • noun do (Informal) A hairdo. 0
  • noun do (Colloquial) OBS A period of confusion or argument. 0
  • noun do Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts). 0
  • noun do (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A deed; an act. 0
  • noun do (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do. 0
  • noun do (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (Britain) SLA A cheat; a swindler. 0
  • noun do (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale. 0
  • verb do (Auxiliary Verb) A syntactic marker in questions whose main verbs are not other auxiliary verbs nor be. 0
  • verb do (Auxiliary Verb) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods. 0
  • verb do (Auxiliary Verb) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods. 0
  • verb do (Auxiliary Verb) A syntactic marker to avoid repetition of an earlier verb. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) To perform; to execute. 0
  • verb do (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To cause, make (someone) (do something). 0
  • verb do (Intransitive Verb) VT To suffice. 0
  • verb do (Intransitive Verb) To be reasonable or acceptable. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) To have (as an effect). 0
  • verb do (Intransitive Verb) To fare; to succeed or fail. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job. 0
  • verb do To cook. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) To treat in a certain way. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc. 0
  • verb do (Intransitive Verb) OBS To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) To impersonate or depict. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) SLA To kill. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) SLA To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for. 0
  • verb do (Informal) To punish for a misdemeanor. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) SLA To have sex with. (See also do it). 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) To cheat or swindle. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate. 0
  • verb do (Transitive Verb) VI To finish. 0
  • verb do (Intransitive Verb) (Britain, dated) To work as a domestic servant (with for). 0
  • verb do (Auxiliary Verb) (archaic, dialectal, transitive) Used to form the present progressive of verbs. 0
  • verb do (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. 0
  • verb do (Informal) VT To make or provide. 0
  • verb do (Informal) VT To injure (one's own body part). 0
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