doing
/ˈduːɪŋ/
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Northumbria/ˈdiːɪn/
doing is the present participle and gerund of do.
Meaning of do
Verb
do (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing, simple past did, past participle done)
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- Do you go there often?
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- I do not go there often.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- But I do go sometimes.
- A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- I play tennis; she does too.
- Should; ought to (especially in respect of a task to be repeated).
- Do I just call every number on the list each time?
- Synonyms:
- should
- Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- ...An' the dogs do bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water do roar at mill.1844, William Barnes, “Evenén in the Village”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
Noun
doing (countable and uncountable, plural doings)
Interjection
IPA/dɔɪŋ/
Synonyms of doing
Forms of doing
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| alternative Northumbria | dein |
| alternative Northumbria | deein |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | doin' |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | doin |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | doïng |
| Noun | |
| plural | doings |
Origin of doing
See do.
Onomatopoeic.
Words formed from doing
Phrases with doing
- doing by
- doing in
- doing it
- doing up
- doing for
- doing ill
- doing off
- doing out
- doing bird
- doing bits
- doing down
- doing good
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- doing over
- doing time
- doing well
- doing drugs
- doing lunch
- doing a bunk
- doing a flit
- doing battle
- doing credit
- doing out of
- what's doing
- doing a Melba
- doing a never
- doing justice
- doing nothing
- doing numbers
- doing the job
- doing without
- doing wonders
- how you doing
- nothing doing
- doing a listen
- doing a perish
- doing a runner
- doing business
- doing it brown
- doing it tough
- doing or dying
- doing porridge
- doing right by
- doing the dash
- doing the deed
- doing the math
- doing away with
- doing by halves
- doing one's bit
- doing one's job
- doing the Dutch
- doing the honor
- doing the nasty
- doing the trick
- took some doing
- doing a Bradbury
- doing cartwheels
- doing gooseberry
- doing one's duty
- doing one's ease
- doing one's part
- doing one's sums
- doing the dishes
- doing the honors
- doing the honour
- doing the rounds
- how're you doing
- taken some doing
- takes some doing
- doing a number on
- doing a slow burn
- doing it up brown
- doing one's stuff
- doing one's thing
- doing one's worst
- doing the nasties
- doing the needful
- doing the talking
- doing unto others
- doing violence to
- how are you doing
- taking some doing
- doing one's utmost
- doing the dirty on
- doing tricks on it
- doing with mirrors
- what are you doing
- doing a lot of work
- doing cheetah flips
- doing someone brown
- doing someone proud
- doing a bit of stiff
- doing one's business
- doing one's easement
- doing one's homework
- doing one's own time
- doing somebody wrong
- doing the hard yards
- doing the impossible
- doing the washing up
- doing the washing-up
- do well by doing good
- doing a power of good
- doing one's damnedest
- doing one's darnedest
- doing one's own thing
- doing the right thing
- either doing or dying
- cost of doing business
- did well by doing good
- doing a moonlight flit
- doing by half-measures
- doing the decent thing
- doing well for oneself
- know what one is doing
- does well by doing good
- doing a little trolling
- doing someone like that
- doing someone's bidding
- doing someone's head in
- doing the power of good
- done well by doing good
- doing oneself a mischief
- doing someone a frighten
- doing someone one better
- doing someone's business
- doing the handsome thing
- doing well by doing good
- doing more harm than good
- doing someone's heart good
- cute girls doing cute things
- doing a land-office business
- ease of doing business index
- can't do right for doing wrong
- doing a little bit of trolling
- ease of doing business indexes
- are you doing anything tomorrow
- doing exactly what it says on the tin
- the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
- those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it
Words that rhyme with doing
Questions about doing
- What does doing mean?
- Doing means a deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
- What is doing the present participle and gerund of?
- Doing is the present participle and gerund of do.
- What part of speech is doing?
- Doing can be a noun or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce doing?
- Doing is pronounced /ˈduːɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of doing?
- The plural of doing is doings.
Words near doing in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: doing (page history and authors); do (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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