do

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   travel or traverse (a distance)

   This car does 150 miles per hour

2. 2
   verb

   carry on or function

   We could do with a little more help around here

3. 3
   verb

   proceed or get along

   How are the new hires doing in their jobs?

4. 4
   verb

   A syntactic marker.

   Do you go there often?

5. 5
   verb

   To perform; to execute.

   If you want something done, do it yourself.

6. 6
   verb

   To cause or make (someone) (do something).

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

7. 7
   verb

   To suffice.

   make it do or do without

8. 8
   verb

   To be reasonable or acceptable.

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

Etymology

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, also Northern English dow. The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, an unexpected development from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē (the expected reflex would be *ded), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-. The meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and affirmative sentences (e.…