do

Meanings

To perform; to execute.
To cause, make (someone) (do something).
To suffice.
To be reasonable or acceptable.
To have (as an effect).
To fare, perform (well or poorly).
To have as one's job.
To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
To cook.
To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
To treat in a certain way.
To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
To impersonate or depict.
To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
To kill.
To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
To punish for a misdemeanor.
To have sex with. (See also do it)
To cheat or swindle.
To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
To finish.
To work as a domestic servant (with for).
Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
To make or provide.
To injure (one's own body part).
To take drugs.
To exist with a purpose or for a reason.

A party, celebration, social function.
A hairdo.
Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
A cheat; a swindler.
An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.

From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ("to put, place, do, make").
For senses 4 and 5, compare Old Norse duga, whence Danish du.
The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-.
The obligatory, meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and—formerly—affirmative sentences, which is unusual in Germanic languages, is thought by some linguists to be one of the Brittonicisms in English, calqued from Brythonic. It is first recorded in Middle English, where it may have marked the perfective aspect, though in some cases the meaning seems to be imperfective. In Early Modern English, any meaning in such contexts was lost, making it a dummy auxiliary, and soon thereafter its use became mandatory in most questions and negations.
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.
Short for ditto.
Shortening of dozen.

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