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   Do

   /do͞o/

   

   verb

   • 1. perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified): "very little work has been done in this field" Similar carry outundertakedischargeexecuteperpetrateperformaccomplishimplementachievecompletefinishconcludebring aboutengineereffectrealizeinformal:pull offrare:effectuate
   • ▪ perform (a particular task): "Dad always did the cooking on Sundays"
   • ▪ work on (something) to bring it to completion or to a required state: "it takes them longer to do their hair than me" Similar preparemakeget readyfixproducesee toarrangeorganizebe responsible forbe in charge oflook aftertake onstylearrangeadjustgroompreenprimpprinkbrushcombwashdrycutinformal:fix
   • ▪ make or have available and provide: "many hotels don't do single rooms at all" Similar paintdrawsketchmakecreateproduceturn outfashiondesignfabricatemanufactureinformal:knock upknock togetherknock off
   • ▪ solve; work out: "Joe was doing sums aloud" Similar work outfigure outcalculateadd upsolveresolvepuzzle outdeciphertot up
   • ▪ cook (food) to completion or to a specified degree: "if a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, then your pie is done"
   • ▪ (often in questions) work at for a living: "what does she do?" Similar do for a livingwork atbe employed asearn a living as/atwhat is …'s job?
   • ▪ produce or give a performance of (a particular play, opera, etc.): "the Royal Shakespeare Company is doing" Similar put onpresentproducegiveperform inact inplay intake part inparticipate inbe involved inbe engaged in
   • ▪ perform (a particular role, song, etc.) or imitate (a particular person) in order to entertain people: informal "he not only does Schwarzenegger and Groucho, he becomes them"
   • ▪ take (a narcotic drug): informal "he doesn't smoke, drink, or do drugs"
   • ▪ attend to (someone): "the barber said he'd do me next"
   • ▪ have sex with. vulgar slang
   • ▪ have sex: informal "I only ever did it in the missionary position"
   • ▪ urinate or defecate. informal
   • 2. achieve or complete: "I never really got the chance to finish school or do my exams"
   • ▪ travel (a specified distance): "one car I looked at had done 112,000 miles" Similar traveljourneygocovertravel overpass overjourney overtraversecrossrange overput behind oneget under one's beltattainachieveloginformal:chalk upnotch up
   • ▪ travel at (a specified speed): "I was speeding, doing seventy-five" Similar drive attravel atgo atproceed atmove at
   • ▪ make (a particular journey): "last time I did New York–Philadelphia round trip by train it was over 80 bucks"
   • ▪ achieve (a specified sales figure): "our bestselling album did about a million worldwide"
   • ▪ visit as a tourist, especially in a superficial or hurried way: informal "the tourists are allotted only a day to “do” Verona" Similar visittoursightsee inlook aroundtake in the sights of
   • ▪ spend (a specified period of time) in prison or in a particular occupation: "he did five years for manslaughter"
   • ▪ finish: informal "you must sit there and wait till I'm done"
   • ▪ be over: "the special formula continues to beautify your tan when the day is done"
   • 3. act or behave in a specified way: "they are free to do as they please" Similar actbehaveconduct oneselfacquit oneselfrare:comport oneselfdeport oneself
   • ▪ make progress or perform in a specified way; get on: "when a team is doing badly, it's not easy for a new player to settle in" Similar get onget alongprogressfaremake outget bymanagecopesurvivesucceedprosper
   • ▪ have a specified effect on: "the walk will do me good"
   • ▪ result in: "the years of stagnation did a lot of harm to the younger generation"
   • 4. be suitable or acceptable: "if he's anything like you, he'll do" Similar sufficebe adequatebe satisfactorybe acceptablebe good enoughbe of usefill the billfit the billanswer the purposeserve the purposemeet one's needspass musterbe enoughbe sufficientinformal:make the gradecut the mustardbe up to snuff
   • 5. beat up or kill: informal "he was the guy who did Maranzano"
   • ▪ ruin: informal "once you falter, you're done"
   • ▪ rob (a place): informal "this would be an easy place to do and there was plenty of money lying around"
   • ▪ swindle: informal British "in business you had to do your competitors before they did you"

   auxiliary

   • 1. used before a verb (except be, can, may, ought, shall, will) in questions and negative statements: "do you have any pets?"
   • ▪ used to make tag questions: "you write poetry, don't you?"
   • ▪ used in negative commands: "don't be silly"
   • 2. used to refer to a verb already mentioned: "he looks better than he did before"
   • 3. used to give emphasis to a positive verb: "I do want to act on this"
   • ▪ used in positive commands to give polite encouragement: "do tell me!"
   • 4. used with inversion of a subject and verb when an adverbial phrase begins a clause for emphasis: "only rarely did they succumb"

   noun

   • 1. short for hairdo informal North American
   • 2. a party or other social event: informal British "the soccer club Christmas do"
   • 3. excrement: informal "the air was rancid with the smell of donkey doo"
   • 4. a swindle or hoax. archaic, informal British

   Word Origin Old Englishdōn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch doen and German tun, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek tithēmi ‘I place’ and Latin facere ‘make, do’.

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   • Definition of do 1 verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary [transitive] do something used to refer to actions that you do not mention by name or do not know about What are you doing this evening? We will do what we can to help. Are you doing anything tomorrow evening? The company ought to do something about the poor service.

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   • do (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing, simple past did, past participle done) ( auxiliary) A syntactic marker. ( auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.

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   to act or conduct oneself; be in action; behave. to proceed: to do wisely. to get along; fare; manage: to do without an automobile. to be in health, as specified: Mother and child are doing fine. to serve or be satisfactory, as for the purpose; be enough; suffice: Will this do? to finish or be finished.

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   4 days ago · do [+genitive] with a gerund or other action; denotes an action to be done; to. denotes the function of an instrument, tool, or material; for. denotes allative movement; to, toward. denotes object of emotions; to, toward, for. denotes object of speaking; to.

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   Nov 27, 2015 · 8 Answers. Sorted by: 15. #define is used to create macros in C and in C++. You can read more about it in the C preprocessor documentation. The quick answer is that it does a few things: Simple Macros - basically just text replacement. Compile time constants are a good example: #define SOME_CONSTANT 12.

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