doing
noun
[ ˈduːɪŋ ]
• the activities in which a particular person engages.
• "the latest doings of television stars"
Similar:
performance,
performing,
carrying out,
effecting,
execution,
implementation,
implementing,
bringing off,
discharge,
discharging,
achievement,
accomplishment,
realization,
completion,
completing,
pulling off,
acquittal,
effectuation,
exploit,
activity,
act,
action,
undertaking,
deed,
feat,
endeavour,
work,
venture,
enterprise,
behaviour,
conduct,
handiwork,
caper,
• used to refer to things when one has forgotten their name or when no one word easily covers them.
• "the drawer where he kept the doings"
Similar:
thing,
whatever it is (called),
whatsit,
whatnot,
doofer,
thingummy,
thingamajig,
thingamabob,
what's-its-name,
what-d'you-call-it,
oojamaflip,
oojah,
gizmo,
doobry,
doodah,
gubbins,
doodad,
doohickey,
doojigger,
dingus,
hootenanny,
thingo,
• a beating or scolding.
• "someone had given her a doing"
do
verb
• perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified).
• "very little work has been done in this field"
Similar:
carry out,
undertake,
discharge,
execute,
perpetrate,
perform,
accomplish,
implement,
achieve,
complete,
finish,
conclude,
bring about,
engineer,
effect,
realize,
pull off,
effectuate,
• achieve or complete.
• "I never really got the chance to finish school or do my exams"
• act or behave in a specified way.
• "they are free to do as they please"
Similar:
act,
behave,
conduct oneself,
acquit oneself,
comport oneself,
deport oneself,
• be suitable or acceptable.
• "if he's anything like you, he'll do"
Similar:
suffice,
be adequate,
be satisfactory,
be acceptable,
be good enough,
be of use,
fill the bill,
fit the bill,
answer the purpose,
serve the purpose,
meet one's needs,
pass muster,
be enough,
be sufficient,
make the grade,
cut the mustard,
be up to snuff,
• beat up or kill.
• "one day I'll do him"
Origin:
Old English dōn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch doen and German tun, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek tithēmi ‘I place’ and Latin facere ‘make, do’.
