Meaning of do | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A syntactic marker.
   auxiliary
2. A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
   auxiliary
3. do (musical note)
4. A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
   auxiliary
5. To behave with respect to; deal with: The children have done well by their aged parents.
6. C (musical note or key)
7. A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
   auxiliary
8. To care or provide for; take care of.
9. where
10. A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
    auxiliary
11. To manage despite the absence of: We had to do without a telephone on the island.
12. Ought to (especially in respect of a task to be repeated).
    auxiliary, informal, interrogative, modal
13. To prefer not to experience or deal with: I could do without their complaints.
14. Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
    auxiliary, dialectal
15. To vanish.
16. To perform; to execute.
    transitive
17. To engage in sexual intercourse.
18. To cause or make (someone) (do something).
    obsolete, transitive
19. To act or perform in a way that gives cause for pride.
20. To suffice.
    ambitransitive
21. To make an individual contribution toward an overall effort.
22. To be reasonable or acceptable.
    intransitive
23. Slang To defecate. Used especially of a pet.
    Slang
24. To have (as an effect).
    ditransitive
25. To do what one does best or finds most enjoyable: "I get paid to try cases and to do my thing on trial" (Bruce Cutler).
26. To fare, perform (well or poorly).
    intransitive
27. To fare well; to thrive; to prosper; (of livestock) to fatten.
    England, especially, intransitive
28. To have as one's job.
    transitive
29. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
    transitive
30. To cook.
    transitive
31. To travel in or through, to tour, to make a circuit of.
    transitive
32. To treat in a certain way.
    transitive
33. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
    transitive
34. To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
    intransitive, obsolete
35. To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
    transitive
36. To impersonate or depict.
    transitive
37. To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
    place, transitive, usually
38. To kill.
    slang, transitive
39. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
    slang, transitive
40. To punish for a misdemeanor.
    informal, transitive
41. To have sex with. (See also do it)
    slang, transitive
42. To cheat or swindle.
    transitive
43. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
    transitive
44. To finish.
    ambitransitive
45. To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
    transitive
46. To make or provide.
    ditransitive, informal
47. To provide as a service.
    informal, transitive
48. To injure (one's own body part).
    informal, transitive
49. To take (a drug).
    transitive
50. To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
    transitive
51. To drive a vehicle at a certain speed, especially in regard to a speed limit.
    informal, transitive
52. To perform something suggested by a following noun, verb, or adjective.
    adjective, verb

Equivalents

Examples

“Do you go there often?”

“I do not go there often.”

“Do not listen to him.”

““Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.”

“But I do go sometimes.”

“Do tell us.”

“Boy, did I make a mistake!”

“That's not true: I always do say please and thank-you.”

“So who did marry the Princess in the end?”

““I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]””

“"Do stop it," said Susan; "it won't make things any better having a row between you two. Let's go and find Lucy."”

“I play tennis; she does too.”

“Likes her cappuccino, Mary does. (UK, colloquial)”

“Your remarks piqued my curiosity, as it did my mom's too.”

“They don't think it be like it is, but it do.”

“Don't be a naughty baby, / Come to papa, come to papa, do! / My sweet embraceable you.”

“Do I just call every number on the list each time?”

“...An' the dogs do bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water do roar at mill.”

“If you want something done, do it yourself.”

“All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?”

“The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.”

“And also my lorde abbot of westmynster ded do shewe to me late, certayn euydences wryton in olde englysshe […];”

My lord the abbot of Westminster recently brought to my attention some specimens of Old English text […]

“Sometimes to do him laugh, ſhe would aſſay / To laugh at ſhaking off the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke […]”

“Emongſt the reſt a wicked maladie / Raign’d emongſt men, that manie did to die,[…]”

“MOreouer, brethren, wee do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God beſtowed on the Churches of Macedonia,[…]”

“make it do or do without”

“it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks.”

“"Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.”

“It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.”

“The fresh air did him some good.”

“Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?”

“Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.”

“A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food at that [—] to keep it doing […]”

“That farm would go like a rick a-fire. It would do: it would go forward and prosper and make him his money.”

“What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.”

“Don't forget to do your report!”

“I'll just do some eggs.”

“It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.”

“We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.”

“Next morning, they woke about ten o'clock, Kev, went for a shower while Alice, did some toast, put the kettle on, and when he came out, she went in.”

“Let’s do New York also.”

“We 'did' London to our hearts' content,—thanks to Fred and Frank,—and were sorry to go away; […]”

“After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London […]”

“No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker […]”

“We got to travel the globe. We did Asia. That's what they say, isn't it? "Did." You know, the globetrotters. Palin. Alan Whicker. We did China. We did Malaysia. Kathmandu was very much a case of Kathman-did.”

“They did me well, I assure you—uncommon well: Bollinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince; […]”

“Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.”

“"Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."”

“Christmas, why you gotta do me like this / I always embraced you / Held you close inside my heart”

“The woman-who-did did not do very well, Juliet thought.”

“Vnto this day they doe after the former manners: they feare not the Lord, neither doe they after their Statutes, or after their Ordinances, or after the Law and Commaundement which the Lord commaunded the children of Iacob, whom hee named Iſrael,[…]”

“I did five years for armed robbery.”

“They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.”

“He did a Henry VIII and got married six times.”

“He was planning to do a 9/11.”

“Case pulled the .22 out of his pocket and levelled it at Wage's crotch. “I hear you wanna do me.””

“About a year ago, a boy name Brandon got got here in Baltimore. Stuck and burned before he passed. […] Wasn't no need for y'all to do him the way y'all did.”

“He's gonna do me, Jarvis. I kid you not, this time he's gonna do me proper.”

“The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.”

“Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets, and fracture his skull, […] or break his arm, or cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call doing him.”

“He got done for speeding.”

“Teacher'll do you for that!”

“Deme[trius]. Villaine vvhat haſt thou done? / A[aron]. That vvhich thou canſt not vndoe. / Chiron. Thou haſt vndone our mother. / Aron. Villaine I haue done thy mother.”

“[…] one day I did her on the kitchen table, and several times on the dining-room table.”

“The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.”

“That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!”

“He was not to be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.”

“the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie”

“Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?”

“Do they do haircuts there?”

“"Defender Kolo Toure admitted Given will be a loss, but gave his backing to Nielsen. 'I think he's done his shoulder,' said the Ivorian."”

“"Watto will spend the entire winter stretching and doing Pilates, and do a hamstring after bending down to pick up his petrol cap after dropping it filling his car at Caltex Cronulla."”

“"'I knew straight away I'd done my ACL, I heard the sound - it was very loud and a few of the boys said they heard it as well,' Otten said."”

“I do cocaine.”

“What's that car doing in our swimming pool?”

“He was doing 50 [miles per hour] in a school zone.”

“did a listen do someone a frighten doing her a cute”

“Is your significant other doing you a heckin distress?”

“When they stick out their tongues, they're doing a mlem, a blep, a blop. They bork. They boof.”

“Woof woof! I’m the goodest boi! I will do you all a protecc (in exchange for yummy treats and full medical, dental, and vision care).”

“hey there hope ya dont mind if I do a cronch (I luv the house salad) […] henlo mom / doin a heckin picturesque / the cuter i look / the more treatos i consume”

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