Do vs Way - What's the difference?
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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.}}
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To perform; to execute.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, 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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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, 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)
(lb) To do with a place or places.
#A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.
#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
#*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.
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, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
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A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
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(lb) Personal interaction.
#Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
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#Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
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(lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
(lb) Speed, progress, momentum.
*1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
*:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .
A degree, an amount, a sense.
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: "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary , a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
* (a tradition within Heathenry) To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
(obsolete) To travel.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
(informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
* 2006 , , Volume 32, Issues 1-6,
(slang, with positive adjective) Very.
* 2005 , Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts ,
(informal) Far.
As a noun do
is the bright time of the day (chiefly in adverbial constructions).As a proper noun way is
christianity or way can be .do
English
(wikipedia do)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”}}
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."
''Aaron : "Villain, I have done thy 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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*way
English
(wikipedia way)Etymology 1
From (etyl) wei, wai, weighe, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* waye (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
Quotations
* (path or direction) "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* by way of * by the way * change one's ways * come one's way * either way * every which way * give way * go all the way * go out of one's way * have it both ways * in a way * in the way * in the way of * have a way with * have one's way * have one's wicked way * know one's way around * lose one's way * no way * no way to treat a lady * on the way * one way or another * right of way * runway * slipway * taxiway * the way things are * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wayfinding * way in * way of all flesh * Way of the Cross * way of the world / ways of the world * way of life * way off * way out * waybill * way to goVerb
(en verb)- on a time as they together way'd , / He made him open chalenge [...].
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*Etymology 2
Apheresis of (m).Alternative forms
* (dated)Adverb
(-)- I'm way too tired to do that.
- I'm a way better singer than she.
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- It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
- I'm way tired
- String theory is way cool, except for the math.
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- With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
- I used to live way over there.
- The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.