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Definition do

Etymology 1

From Middle English don, from Old English d?n, from Proto-Germanic *d?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, place, do, make”).

The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, from Proto-Germanic *ded?/*ded?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?éd?eh?ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *d?eh?-.

The use of do in interrogative, negative, and, formerly, affirmative sentences, unusual in Germanic languages, is thought to be calqued from Brythonic.

Verb

do (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing, simple past did, past participle done)

  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
    1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
    2. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
    3. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
    4. (pro-verb) 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".
      1. (African American Vernacular) Can refer back to "be".
  2. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
  5. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
  8. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
  10. To cook.
  11. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
  13. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
  16. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
  17. (transitive, slang) To kill.
  18. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  19. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
  20. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
  21. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
  22. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  23. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
  24. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  25. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  26. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  27. (informal, transitive, ditransitive) To make or provide.
  28. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
  29. (transitive) To take drugs.
  30. (transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
Noun

do (plural dos)

  1. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
  2. (informal) A hairdo.
  3. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
  4. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
  5. (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
  6. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
  7. (obsolete, Britain, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.

Etymology 2

From the name of musicologist Giovanni Battista Doni, who suggested replacing the original ut with an open syllable for ease of singing. First found in Italian.

Noun

do (plural dos)

  1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.

Etymology 3

Short for ditto.

Adverb

do (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

Results 194 Words with the letters DO

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4 letter words with the letters DO ↑
ADOS 5
APOD 8
BODE 8
BODS 8
BODY 10
BOLD 9
BOND 9
CLOD 9
CODA 8
CODE 8
CODS 8
COED 8
COLD 9
CORD 8
DADO 6
DAGO 7
DATO 5
DECO 8
DEMO 8
DHOW 10
DIDO 6
DINO 6
DIOL 6
DOAT 5
DOBY 10
DOCK 12
DOCS 8
DODO 6
DOER 5
DOES 5
DOFF 11
DOGE 7
DOGS 7
DOGY 9
DOIT 5
DOJO 14
DOLE 6
DOLL 7
DOLS 6
DOLT 6
DOME 8
DOMS 8
DONA 6
DONE 6
DONG 8
DONS 6
DOOM 8
DOOR 5
DOPA 8
DOPE 8
DOPY 10
DORE 5
DORK 9
DORM 8
DORP 8
DORR 5
DORS 5
DORY 7
DOSE 5
DOSS 5
DOST 5
DOTE 5
DOTH 7
DOTS 5
DOTY 7
DOUM 9
DOUR 6
DOUX 13
DOVE 9
DOWN 9
DOWS 8
DOXY 14
DOZE 14
DOZY 16
DROP 8
DUOS 6
DURO 6
EDDO 6
FADO 8
FEOD 8
FIDO 8
FOLD 9
FOND 9
FOOD 8
FORD 8
GOAD 7
GODS 7
GOLD 8
GOOD 7
GOWD 10
HODS 7
HOED 7
HOLD 8
HOOD 7
IDOL 6
JUDO 15
KUDO 10
LIDO 6
LOAD 6
LODE 6
LOID 6
LORD 6
LOUD 7
MODE 8
MODI 8
MODS 8
MOLD 9
MOOD 8
NODE 6
NODI 6
NODS 6
ODAH 7
ODAS 5
ODDS 6
ODEA 5
ODES 5
ODIC 8
ODOR 5
ODYL 8
OHED 7
OLDS 6
OLDY 8
OPED 8
ORAD 5
ORDO 5
OUDS 6
OWED 8
OXID 12
PLOD 9
PODS 8
POND 9
POOD 8
PROD 8
QUOD 15
REDO 5
ROAD 5
RODE 5
RODS 5
ROOD 5
SHOD 7
SODA 5
SODS 5
SOLD 6
SORD 5
TOAD 5
TODS 5
TODY 7
TOED 5
TOLD 6
TROD 5
UDON 7
UDOS 6
UNDO 7
UPDO 9
VOID 9
WOAD 8
WOLD 9
WOOD 8
WORD 8
YODH 9
YODS 7
YOND 8
3 letter words with the letters DO ↑
ADO 4
BOD 7
COD 7
DOC 7
DOE 4
DOG 6
DOL 5
DOM 7
DON 5
DOR 4
DOS 4
DOT 4
DOW 7
DUO 5
GOD 6
HOD 6
MOD 7
NOD 5
ODA 4
ODD 5
ODE 4
ODS 4
OLD 5
OUD 5
POD 7
ROD 4
SOD 4
TOD 4
UDO 5
YOD 6
2 letter words with the letters DO ↑
DO 3
OD 3

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