- noundoing (noun) · doings (plural noun)
- (doings)the activities in which a particular person engages:"the latest doings of television stars"
- informala beating or scolding:"someone had given her a doing"
- effort; activity:"it would take some doing to calm him down"
verbdoing (present participle)- perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified):"very little work has been done in this field" · "she knew what she was doing" · "something must be done about the city's traffic" · "what can I do for you?" · "what a lot there is to do!" · "Brian was looking at the girl, and had been doing so for most of the hearing"
- 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" · "Sam's the secretary and does the publicity"
- make or have available and provide:"many hotels don't do single rooms at all" · "he's doing bistro food" · "he decided to do her a favor"
- solve; work out:"Joe was doing sums aloud"
- 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?"
- produce or give a performance of (a particular play, opera, etc.):"the Royal Shakespeare Company is doing Macbeth next month"
- informalperform (a particular role, song, etc.) or imitate (a particular person) in order to entertain people:"he not only does Schwarzenegger and Groucho, he becomes them"
- informaltake (a narcotic drug):"he doesn't smoke, drink, or do drugs"
- attend to (someone):"the barber said he'd do me next"
- vulgar slanghave sex with.
- informal(do it)have sex:"I only ever did it in the missionary position"
- informal(do it)urinate or defecate.
- 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"
- travel at (a specified speed):"I was speeding, doing seventy-five"
- 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"
- informalvisit as a tourist, especially in a superficial or hurried way:"the tourists are allotted only a day to “do” Verona"
- spend (a specified period of time) in prison or in a particular occupation:"he did five years for manslaughter"
- informalfinish:"you must sit there and wait till I'm done" · "we're done arguing"
- (be done)be over:"the special formula continues to beautify your tan when the day is done"
- act or behave in a specified way:"they are free to do as they please" · "you did well to bring her back"
- 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" · "hi, how are you doing today?"
- 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"
- be suitable or acceptable:"if he's anything like you, he'll do" · "a couple of bucks'll do me" · "the old version will do for now"
- informalbeat up or kill:"he was the guy who did Maranzano"
- informal(be done)ruin:"once you falter, you're done"
- informalrob (a place):"this would be an easy place to do and there was plenty of money lying around"
- BRITISH ENGLISHinformalswindle:"in business you had to do your competitors before they did you"
OriginOld English dōn, 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’.Similar and Opposite Wordsnounverb- perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified):
- work on (something) to bring it to completion or to a required state:
- make or have available and provide:
- solve; work out:
- (often in questions) work at for a living:
- produce or give a performance of (a particular play, opera, etc.):
- act or behave in a specified way:
- be suitable or acceptable:
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