To put; place; lay.To perform; execute; achieve; carry out; effect by action or exertion; bring to pass by procedure of any kind: as, he has nothing to do; to do a man's work; to do errands; to do good.To treat or act in regard to (an object) so as to perform or effect the action required by the nature of the case: as, to do (transact) business with one; to do (dress) the hair; to do (cook) the meat thoroughly; to do (visit and see the sights of) a country; do (trim) my beard first; be sure and do (make) the shoes first; to do (work out) a problem in arithmetic. In this use, do is the most comprehensive of verbs, as it may assert any kind of action.To perform some act imparting or causing (some effect or result), or manifesting (some intention, purpose, or feeling); afford or cause by action, or as a consequence of action; cause; effect; render; offer; show: with a direct object, and an indirect object preceded by to or for, or itself preceding the direct object: as, to do good to one's neighbor; to do reverence to a superior; to do a favor for a friend; to do homage for land, as a vassal; he has done you a great favor; to do a patron honor or credit; to do a person harm or wrong.To bring to a conclusion; complete; finish: as, the business being done, the meeting adjourned.To deliver; convey.To impart; give; grant; afford.To serve.To put forth; use in effecting something; exert: as, I will do my endeavor in your behalf; do your best.To cause; make: with an object and an infinitive: as, “do him come,” Paston Letters, 1474-85 (that is, cause him to come).To cause: with an infinitive (without to): as, he did make (that is, he caused to make); “to do make a castell,” Palsgrave, 1530 (that is, to cause to make a castle, or to cause a castle to be made or erected).To hoax; cheat; swindle; humbug; overreach: as, to do a man out of his money.To outdo, as in fighting; beat; overcome.To put away; remove; annul; abolish; obliterate: now usually in the form to do away with.To coat, as with paint; smear.To wrap and tie up, as a parcel: as, do up these books neatly, and send them off at once.To dress and fasten, as the hair.To freshen, as a room with paint, paper, and upholstery, or a garment by remodeling.To iron, or starch and iron: as, a laundress who does up muslins well.To have concern or business with; deal with; get on with: as, I can do nothing with this obstinate fellow.To act; be in action; be active in performing or accomplishing; exert one's self in relation to something.To act or behave; conduct one's self: with adverbial adjuncts indicating manner of acting: as, to do well by a man.To succeed (well or ill) in some undertaking or action; get along; come through.To arrange; contrive; shift: as, how shall we do for food?[Cf. the equiv. OF. comment le faites-vous? lit. how do you make it? G. was machen sie? lit. what make you? The sense of do in this usage merges in do. See do, dow.] To be (well or ill); be in a state with regard to sickness or health; fare: as, we asked him how he did; how do you do?To ruin; defeat effectually; injure fatally.As an auxiliary, do is inflected, while the principal verb is in the infinitive without to, and originally and strictly the object of do: thus, I do know is I perform an act of knowing. Compare shall and will.Certain uses of do as an auxiliary, with both transitive and intransitive verbs, may be pointed out.In forming interrogative and negative expressions: as, do you want this book? I do not long for it; does he do his work well? he does not do it as well as I expected.With the imperative, sometimes, to help the expression of the subject: as, do thou go (instead of go, or go thou); do you stay here (instead of stay, or stay you here).To express emphasis: as, I do wish you had seen him; I did see him; do be quick; do not (don't) do that.Sometimes (now chiefly in poetry, where it is often used for merely metrical reasons, but formerly often in prose) merely as an inflection of the principal verb, with no other effect.Do, being capable of denoting any kind of action required by the circumstances in connection with which it is used, is often employed as a substitute for the principal verb, or for the whole clause directly dependent upon it, to avoid repetition: as, conduct your business on sound principles; so long as you do, you are safe.n. Endeavor; duty; all that is required of one, or that one can do.n. To-do; bustle; tumult; stir; fuss.n. A trick; a cheat; a hoax.To suit; be fit or suitable; serve the purpose or end in view; avail; suffice: as, will this do?An old English form of done, past participle of do.n. In solmization, the syllable now commonly used for the first tone or key-note of the musical scale, and also for the tone C (as the key-note of the typical scale of the pianoforte keyboard).n. An abbreviation of ditto.n. In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification (see rock), a prefix used in forming words, denoting that one constituent or group of constituents dominates another within the ratios .n. An abbreviation of the Latin Datur omnibus mori, ‘it is given unto all to die’n. of the Latin Deo Optimo Maximo, ‘to the best and highest God.’