1. Engage in
   "do research"; "do nothing";
   - make
    
2. Carry out an action
   "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "she did a little dance";
   - perform, execute
    
3. Get (something) done
   "I did my job";
   - perform
    
4. Perform, succeed or manage over a period of time
   "How is she doing in her new job?";
   - fare, make out, come, get along
    
5. Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
   "The news did nothing to calm the situation";
   - cause, make, engender
    
6. Carry out, engage in (as of jobs and professions)
   "do law";
   - practice [N. Amer], practise [Brit, Cdn], exercise
    
7. Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
   "Will $100 do?";
   - suffice, answer, serve
    
8. Create or design, often in a certain way
   "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest";
   - make
    
9. Show a certain behaviour; conduct or comport oneself
   "What makes her do this way?";
   - act, behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry
    
10. Spend time in prison or in a labour camp
    "He did six years for embezzlement";
    - serve
     
11. Carry on or function
    "We could do with a little more help around here";
    - manage
     
12. Style or arrange hair attractively
    "do my hair for the wedding";
    - dress, arrange, set, coif, coiffe, coiffure
     
13. Travel or traverse (a distance)
    "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"; "This car does 150 miles per hour"

1. A party or social event
   "The charity do raised thousands for the cause";
   - bash [informal]
    
2. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
   "In the song 'Do-Re-Mi', Julie Andrews sings 'Doh, a deer, a female deer'"; "In the do-re-mi system, 'ut' was replaced by 'do'";
   - doh, ut
    
3. [informal] The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)
   "a fetching new do";
   - hairdo [informal], hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif

1. Doctor's degree in osteopathy
   - Doctor of Osteopathy

Sounds like: dew, du

Derived forms: dos, doing

Type of: accomplish, act, action, bear on, carry on, carry out, carry through, continue, create, doctorate, doctor's degree, execute, fulfil [Brit, Cdn], fulfill [N. Amer], go, groom, hair, live up to, locomote, make, move, neaten, party, pass, preserve, proceed, satisfy, solfa syllable, spend, travel, uphold

Encyclopedia: Do, Marry, Kill