What does do mean?

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[n] an uproarious party[v] engage in(make love, not war make an effort do research do nothing make revolution)[n] the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization[v] carry out or perform an action(John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutter

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[n] an uproarious party

[v] engage in
(make love, not war make an effort do research do nothing make revolution)

[n] the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization

[v] carry out or perform an action
(John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters the skater executed a triple pirouette she did a little dance)

[n] doctor's degree in osteopathy

[v] get (something) done
(I did my job)

[v] proceed or get along
(How is she doing in her new job? How are you making out in graduate school? He's come a long way)

[v] give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
(cause a commotion make a stir cause an accident)

[v] carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
(practice law)

[v] be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
(A few words would answer This car suits my purpose well Will $100 do? A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school Nothing else will serve)

[v] 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)

[v] behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
(You should act like an adult Don't behave like a fool What makes her do this way? The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people)

[v] spend time in prison or in a labor camp
(He did six years for embezzlement)

[v] carry on or function
(We could do with a little more help around here)

[v] arrange attractively
(dress my hair for the wedding)

[v] travel or traverse (a distance)
(This car does 150 miles per hour We did 6 miles on our hike every day)

Other vocabulary

d, d and c, d region, d'oyly carte, d-day, d-layer, d. h. lawrence, d. w. griffith, d.a., d.c., d.o.a., d.p.r.k., da, da gamma, da vinci, da'wah, dab, daba, dabble, dabbled, dabbler, dabbling duck, dabchick, daboecia, daboecia cantabrica, dacca, dace, dacelo, dacelo gigas, dacha, o, o level, o ring, o'brien, o'casey, o'clock, o'connor, o'er, o'flaherty, o'hara, o'keeffe, o'neill, o'toole, o. henry, o.d., o.e.d., o.k., oaf, oafish, oahu, oahu island, oak, oak apple, oak blight, oak chestnut, oak fern, oak leaf cluster, oak tree, oak-leaved goosefoot, oaken

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.