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doing
Noun
  • A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
Verb
  • present participle of do
Interjection
  • The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
do
Verb
  • A syntactic marker in questions whose main verbs are not other auxiliary verbs nor 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. auxiliary
  • A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliaries such as "be". pro-verb
    • Can refer back to "be". African American Vernacular
  • To perform; to execute. transitive
  • To cause, make (someone) (do something). obsolete
  • To suffice. intransitive, transitive
  • To be reasonable or acceptable. intransitive
  • To have (as an effect). transitive
  • To fare; to succeed or fail. intransitive
  • To have as one's job. transitive, chiefly in questions
  • To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
  • To cook.
  • 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. transitive
  • To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself. intransitive, obsolete
  • (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail. transitive
  • To impersonate or depict. transitive
  • To kill. transitive, slang
  • To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for. transitive, slang
  • To punish for a misdemeanor. informal
  • To have sex with. (See also do it) transitive, slang
  • To cheat or swindle. transitive
  • To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate. transitive
  • To finish. transitive, intransitive
  • To work as a domestic servant (with for). Britain, dated, intransitive
  • Used to form the present progressive of verbs. archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary
  • To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. stock exchange
  • To make or provide. informal, transitive
  • To injure (one's own body part). informal, transitive
  • To take drugs. transitive
Noun
  • A party, celebration, social function. colloquial
  • A hairdo. informal
  • A period of confusion or argument. colloquial, obsolete
  • Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
  • A deed; an act. obsolete
  • ado; bustle; stir; to-do archaic
  • A cheat; a swindler. obsolete, Britain, slang
Noun
  • A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale. music
Adverb
  • Abbreviation of ditto. rare