| Do 1. (n.) A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solemnization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet. 2. (v. t. / auxiliary) To place; to put. 3. (v. t. / auxiliary) To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. 4. (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve. 5. (v. t. / auxiliary) To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can. 6. (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done. 7. (v. t. / auxiliary) To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only. 8. (v. t. / auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text. 9. (v. t. / auxiliary) To cheat; to gull; to overreach. 10. (v. t. / auxiliary) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. 11. (v. t. / auxiliary) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. 12. (v. i.) To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self. 13. (v. i.) To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day? 14. (v. i.) To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do. 15. (n.) Deed; act; fear. 16. (n.) Ado; bustle; stir; to do. 17. (n.) A cheat; a swindle. Thesaurus Entries I beg you, Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, accompany, accomplish, achieve, acquit, act, act a part, act as, act like, act out, advantage, affect, answer, ape, appear, arrival, assister, assume, attain, attend, author, avail, bake, banquet, barbecue, baste, be OK, be about, be at, be doing, be engaged in, be equal to, be good enough, be handy, be occupied with, be of use, be present at, be productive, bear, beat, beget, behave, benefit, bestead, betide, bilk, blanch, blowout, boil, borrow, bottom, braise, break, breed, brew, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring off, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to pass, broil, brown, carnival, carry into execution, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, chance, cheat, chord, chorus, chouse, clear up, clip off, coddle, come off, come to, commit, compass, complete, comport, conceive, concertize, conclude, conduct, consummate, cook, copy, counterfeit, course, cover, cozen, crack, create, crib, curry, deal with, debug, decipher, decode, defraud, demean, deport, determine, develop, devil, diddle, discharge, discourse, disentangle, dispatch, dispose of, ditto, divine, do it, do like, do out of, do the job, do the trick, do to, do to perfection, dope, dope out, echo, effect, effectuate, employ, enact, end, engage in, engender, engineer, establish, execute, exercise, explain, fair, fake, fall out, fare, father, fathom, feast, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fetch, fete, field day, fiesta, figure out, fill the bill, find out, find the answer, find the solution, finish, fire, fit, flimflam, follow, forge, found, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fulfill, gala, gala affair, gala day, generate, gestate, get, get along, get by, get on, get right, give birth to, give good returns, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go, go and do, go around, go at, go in for, go like, go on, go over, go to, great doings, griddle, grill, guess, guess right, gyp, hack it, halt, have it, have the goodness, heat, high jinks, hit, hit it, hoke, hoke up, hold, if you please, imitate, impersonate, inaugurate, industrialize, inflict, institute, interpret, jamboree, just do, kermis, knock off, look on, make, make like, make music, make out, make the grade, manage, masquerade as, mass-produce, measure, meet, meet requirements, mime, mimic, mirror, misbehave, move, muddle through, occasion, occur, open the lock, originate, oven-bake, overpass, overproduce, overreach, pan, pan-broil |