• To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• To cook.
• To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• To treat in a certain way.
• To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
• To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
• To impersonate or depict.
• (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
• To kill.
• To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• To punish for a misdemeanor.
• To have sex with. (See also do it)
• To cheat or swindle.
• To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• To finish.
• To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• (ditransitive) To make or provide.
• To injure (one's own body part).
• To take drugs.
• (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
• the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
• the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
• a conceptual separation or distinction
• the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
• the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
verb
• put in opposition to show or emphasize differences
• Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
• To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
• To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
• To experience, go through, undergo.
• To be afflicted with, suffer from.
• (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
• Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
• (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
• To give birth to.
• To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• To accept as a romantic partner.
• (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• To defeat in a fight; take.
• (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
• To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• To trick, to deceive.
• (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
• (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
• To host someone; to take in as a guest.
• To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
• (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
• installation from which a military force initiates operations
• a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
• lowest support of a structure
• a place that the runner must touch before scoring
• the bottom or lowest part
• (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
• a lower limit
• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
• a support or foundation
• a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
• any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
• the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
• the most important or necessary part of something
• (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
• the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
• the principal ingredient of a mixture
• a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
• (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
adjective satellite
• serving as or forming a base
• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
• (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
• not adhering to ethical or moral principles
• having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
• illegitimate
• debased; not genuine
verb
• use as a basis for; found on
• situate as a center of operations
• use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
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