Do vs Die - What's the difference?
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To perform; to execute.
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, title= (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), ''(The Faerie Queene), II.vi:
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* Bible, 2 Cor. viii. 1
(transitive) To suffice.
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, passage=“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.}}
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To be reasonable or acceptable.
To have (as an effect).
To fare; to succeed or fail.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
To cook.
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, passage=It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.}}
* {{quote-news, 1944, , , News from the Suburbs, Punch
, passage=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.}}
* {{quote-book, 2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page=99, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=V63jCdQpv2kC&pg=PA99
, passage=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.}}
To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
* {{quote-book, 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, edition=1957 ed., page=, pageurl=
, passage=We 'did ' London to our heart's content, thanks to Fred and Frank, and were sorry to go away,
* {{quote-book, 1892, James Batchelder, Multum in Parvo: Notes from the Life and Travels of James Batchelder, page=97
, passage=After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London
* {{quote-news, 1968, July 22, Ralph Schoenstein, Nice Place to Visit, New York Magazine
, passage=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
To treat in a certain way.
* {{quote-news, 1894, , , , Harper's
, passage=They did me well, I assure you — uncommon well: Bellinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince;
* 1928 , , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in (Lord Peter Views the Body) ,
* {{quote-book, 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, page=50
, passage="Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."}}
To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
* Bible, 2 Kings xvii. 34
To spend (time) in jail.
To impersonate or depict.
(slang) To kill.
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* {{quote-book, 2007, E.J. Churchill, page=153, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ytW6LcwIrXQC&pg=PA153, The Lazarus Code
, passage=The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.}}
(slang) To have sex with. (See also do it )
* {{quote-book, c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, section=Act IV, scene II, pageurl=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Titus_Andronicus
, passage=Demetrius'': "Villain, what hast thou done?"
''Aaron'': "That which thou canst not undo."
''Chiron'': "Thou hast undone our mother."
''Aaron : "Villain, I have done thy mother."}}* {{quote-book, 1996, James Russell Kincaid, My Secret Life, page=81, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=q2cQiUtWftwC&pg=PA82
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* {{quote-book, 2008, On the Line, Donna Hill, page=84
, passage=The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.}}
To cheat or swindle.
* De Quincey
To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
(intransitive) To finish.
(UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for ).
* 1915 , Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections
(archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
* 1844 , William Barnes, Evenén in the Village , Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
(stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
(informal) To make or provide.
(colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
* 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' '' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
(informal) A hairdo.
(colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument. (rfex)
Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts ).
(obsolete) A deed; an act.
(archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do
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(obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
(rare)
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
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#* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:
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#* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:
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#* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:
#* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:
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#* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:
#* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:
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To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
(figuratively) To yearn intensely.
* 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:
* 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168
(idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
(figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
(colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
(intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.
(intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
* Spectator
* Tennyson
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
* Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
(plural: dice) A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
* 1748 . David Hume. . In: Wikisource . Wikimedia: 2007. § 46.
(plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
(plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape.
A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
(plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
(plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
(electronics) (plural:'' dice ''or dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Any small cubical or square body.
* Watts
(obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
* Spenser
As a noun do
is the bright time of the day (chiefly in adverbial constructions).As a proper noun die is
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English
(wikipedia do)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
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The tao of tech, passage=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 ",
- Sometimes to doe him laugh, she would assay / To laugh at shaking of the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke
- My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences.
- a fatal plague which many did to die
- We do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
- "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.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=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.}}
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- 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.
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- They fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment.
''Aaron'': "That which thou canst not undo."
''Chiron'': "Thou hast undone our mother."
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- 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.
- I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.
- ...An' the dogs do''' bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water '''do roar at mill.
- Do they do haircuts there?
- Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
Usage notes
* In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use and verbs had a distinct second-person singular present-tense form, the verb .Antonyms
* don'tDerived terms
* can do with * do a… * doable * do by * do by halves * do down * doer * do for * do in * do it * do right by * done * do-over * do somebody wrong * do the trick * do time * do up * do well by doing good * do with mirrors * do without * fordo * misdo * redo * overdo * to do with * underdo * undoSee also
Noun
(en noun)- We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
- After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do , in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.
- Nice do !
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- A great deal of do , and a great deal of trouble.
Synonyms
* (period of confusion or argument) to-do * get-togetherUsage notes
For the plural of the noun, the spelling is often used for the sake of legibility, but is sometimes considered incorrect. For the party, the term is generally used only by older adults and usually implies a social function of modest size and formality.Etymology 2
From (etyl) do.Alternative forms
* dohSynonyms
* ut (archaic)See also
(names for musical notes) * fa * la * mi * re * so * tiEtymology 3
Short for ditto.Adverb
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), ).J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'' (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), page 150, s.v. "death"Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003).Verb
- "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
- In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
- She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
- "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
- Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
- Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
- Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.
- And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
- She died with dignity.
- He died a hero's death.
- They died a thousand deaths.
- Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
- I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
- The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
- He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
- If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .
- My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
- letting the secret die within his own breast
- Great deeds cannot die .
- His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
- to die to pleasure or to sin
- Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Synonyms
* (to stop living) bite the dust, buy the farm, check out, cross over, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, cease to be, go to meet one's maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible * See alsoDerived terms
* be dying for * die away * die down * diehard/die-hard/die hard * die off * die out * do-or-die * the good die young * to die forReferences
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (Modern (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- If a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
- words pasted upon little flat tablets or dies
- Such is the die of war.