Definition of the word done

I.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a done dealinformal (= something that has been completely agreed)

▪ The takeover has been described as a done deal.

as good as done/finished etc

▪ The summer’s as good as over.

done an honest day’s work

▪ I bet he’s never done an honest day’s work in his life!

done…revision

▪ I know I haven’t done enough revision for tomorrow’s exam.

have your hair cut/done/permed (also get your hair cut etc) (= by a hairdresser)

▪ I need to get my hair cut.

no harm donespoken (= used to tell someone not to worry about something they have done)

▪ ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to push you.’ ‘Don’t worry, no harm done.’

over (and done) with (=used about something unpleasant)

▪ I’m so glad the mid-term exams are over and done with.

▪ You’d better give them the bad news. Do it now – get it over with.

the groundwork has…been done

▪ Much of the groundwork has already been done.

the spadework…done

▪ Most of the spadework had been done by 1981.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be/feel hard done by

▪ Having played in the previous winning Eisenhower Trophy team with distinction I think he can feel hard done by.

▪ The idea of a passenger going without pudding and then leaving the aircraft feeling hard done by troubles them.

▪ Thomas felt hard done by, contested the will and lost.

▪ To any readers who feel hard done by or annoyed please accept my sincere apologies.

▪ You’ve every right to feel hard done by, so don’t start thinking that you’re being selfish.

been there, seen that, done that

consider it done

done to a turn

▪ Then the interviewer asked what needed to be done to turn things around.

easier said than done

had sb done sth

▪ Had we known they were going to build a road right there, we would never have bought the house.

have done with sth

▪ I wonder what Grandmother would have done with such a husband?

▪ If they had, what would they have done with the bird’s skull?

▪ She felt for Karen, but she had no idea what she would have done with her on the roster next year.

▪ This was something they could not have done with any other embassy.

▪ What Leapor would have done with the money can be surmised.

▪ What would they have done with all the money we drop every night at Convito Italiano?

▪ Why don’t we just call it New Mancunian Express and have done with it?

▪ Why don’t we just give Napoleon the keys to Berlin and have done with it?

have gone and done sth

▪ Kay’s gone and lost the car keys!

have sth ready/done/finished etc

job done

justice has been done/served

▪ He can continue to appeal, or go to some other level, until he feels justice has been done.

▪ He has successfully persuaded the crowd that justice has been done.

▪ Mr Townsend says he feels justice has been done.

▪ Mrs Alliss’ solicitor says justice has been done.

look what you’ve done!

▪ Now look what you’ve done! You’ll have to clean it up.

no sooner said than done

the damage is done

▪ Ed apologized a week later, but the damage was already done.

▪ Crew scurries to cover the lanes and approaches, but the damage is done.

▪ For the most part, the damage is done by soluble aluminium released from soil by acid water.

▪ It is when guilt lingers into adulthood that the damage is done.

▪ The concert is still reverberating in our ears and the damage is done.

▪ The symptoms are often obvious, identifiable, and even treatable before the damage is done.

▪ Well, the damage is done now.

the done thing

▪ For the great majority, the industrial co-operative is just not the done thing.

▪ I suppose it was not the done thing for a book of Rambles.

▪ It being, of course, not the done thing to drop your trousers in public.

well done!/well played!

what has sb done with sth?

▪ So what has Renault done with the latest version of its supermini?

when all’s said and done

II.adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ I think the hamburgers are done.

▪ The job’s almost done.

▪ Well, I’m done. I’m going home.

do do (d[=oo]), v. t. or auxiliary. [imp. did (d[i^]d); p.
p. done (d[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Doing (d[=oo]»[i^]ng).
This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative,
present tense, thus: I do, thou doest (d[=oo]»[e^]st) or dost
(d[u^]st), he does (d[u^]z), doeth (d[=oo]»[e^]th), or doth
(d[u^]th); when auxiliary, the second person is, thou dost.
As an independent verb, dost is obsolete or rare, except in
poetry. «What dost thou in this world?» —Milton. The form
doeth is a verb unlimited, doth, formerly so used, now being
the auxiliary form. The second pers, sing., imperfect tense,
is didst (d[i^]dst), formerly didest (d[i^]d»[e^]st).] [AS.
d[=o]n; akin to D. doen, OS. duan, OHG. tuon, G. thun, Lith.
deti, OSlav. d[=e]ti, OIr. d[‘e]nim I do, Gr. tiqe`nai to
put, Skr. dh[=a], and to E. suffix -dom, and prob. to L.
facere to do, E. fact, and perh. to L. -dere in some
compounds, as addere to add, credere to trust. [root]65. Cf.
Deed, Deem, Doom, Fact, Creed, Theme.]

1. To place; to put. [Obs.]
   —Tale of a Usurer (about 1330).

2. To cause; to make; — with an infinitive. [Obs.]

   My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late
   certain evidences.
   —W. Caxton.

   I shall . . . your cloister do make.
   —Piers
   Plowman.

   A fatal plague which many did to die.
   —Spenser.

   We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the
   grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
   
   —2 Cor. viii.
   1.

   Note: We have lost the idiom shown by the citations (do used
   like the French faire or laisser), in which the verb in
   the infinitive apparently, but not really, has a
   passive signification, i. e., cause . . . to be made.

3. To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to
   effect; to achieve.

   The neglecting it may do much danger.
   —Shak.

   He waved indifferently ‘twixt doing them neither
   good not harm.
   —Shak.

4. To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry
   out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty;
   to do what I can.

   Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work.
   —Ex.
   xx. 9.

   We did not do these things.
   —Ld. Lytton.

   You can not do wrong without suffering wrong.
   
   —Emerson.
   Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to
   render homage, honor, etc.

5. To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to
   finish; to accomplish; — a sense conveyed by the
   construction, which is that of the past participle done.
   «Ere summer half be done.» «I have done weeping.»
   
   —Shak.

6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by
   cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat
   is done on one side only.

7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition,
   especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death;
   to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to
   remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take
   off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form
   of; to translate or transform into, as a text.

   Done to death by slanderous tongues. — Shak.

   The ground of the difficulty is done away. — Paley.

   Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done
   away.
   —Thackeray.

   To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we
   must do on the armor of God. — Latimer.

   Then Jason rose and did on him a fair
   Blue woolen tunic. — W. Morris
   (Jason).

   Though the former legal pollution be now done off,
   yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as
   much to be shunned.
   —Milton.

   It [«Pilgrim’s Progress»] has been done into
   verse: it has been done into modern English. —
   Macaulay.

8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]

   He was not be done, at his time of life, by
   frivolous offers of a compromise that might have
   secured him seventy-five per cent. — De Quincey.

9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of
   interest. [Colloq.]

10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a
    bill or note.

11. To perform work upon, about, for, or at, by way of caring
    for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in
    order, or the like.

    The sergeants seem to do themselves pretty well.
    
    —Harper’s
    Mag.

12. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to
    ruin; to do for. [Colloq. or Slang]

    Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets,
    and fracture his skull, . . . or break his arm, or
    cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call
    doing him.
    —Charles
    Reade.

    Note:
    (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb
    to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an
    auxiliary the verb do has no participle. «I do set
    my bow in the cloud.»
    —Gen. ix.

13. [Now archaic or
    rare except for emphatic assertion.]

    Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to
    the knowledge of the public. — Macaulay.
    (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. «You
    don’t say so, Mr. Jobson. — but I do say so.» —Sir
    W. Scott. «I did love him, but scorn him now.»
    —Latham.
    (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and
    did are in common use. I do not wish to see them;
    what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He
    did not. «Do you love me?» —Shak.
    (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
    used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or
    earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative
    mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with
    the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done
    often stand as a general substitute or representative
    verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
    verb. «To live and die is all we have to do.»
    —Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries,
    the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without
    to) of the verb represented. «When beauty lived and
    died as flowers do now.» —Shak. «I . . . chose my
    wife as she did her wedding gown.» —Goldsmith.

    My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
    As the light does the shadow. — Longfellow.
    In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the
    most part, archaic or poetical; as, «This just
    reproach their virtue does excite.» —Dryden.

    To do one’s best, To do one’s diligence (and the like),
    to exert one’s self; to put forth one’s best or most or
    most diligent efforts. «We will . . . do our best to gain
    their assent.» —Jowett (Thucyd.).

    To do one’s business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] —Wycherley.

    To do one shame, to cause one shame. [Obs.]

    To do over.

    1. To make over; to perform a second time.

    2. To cover; to spread; to smear. «Boats . . . sewed
       together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff
       like rosin.» —De Foe.

       To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]

       To do up.

       1. To put up; to raise. [Obs.]
          —Chaucer.

       2. To pack together and envelop; to pack up.

    3. To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]

    4. To starch and iron. «A rich gown of velvet, and a
       ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.»
       
       —Hawthorne.

       To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.]
       —Chaucer.

       To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; —
       usually preceded by what. «Men are many times brought to
       that extremity, that were it not for God they would not
       know what to do with themselves.»
       —Tillotson.

       To have to do with, to have concern, business or
       intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the
       notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern
       the person denoted by the subject of have. «Philology has
       to do with language in its fullest sense.»
       —Earle.
       «What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?
       —2 Sam.
       xvi. 10.

1. 1 (context of food English) ready, fully cooked. 2 In a state of having completed or finished an activity. 3 Being exhausted or fully spent. 4 Without hope or prospect of completion or success. 5 fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful. v

2. 1 (past participle of do English) 2 (context African American Vernacular English Southern American English auxiliary verb taking a past tense English) Used in forming the perfective aspect.

1. n. an uproarious party [syn: bash, brawl]

2. the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: doh, ut]

3. doctor’s degree in osteopathy [syn: Doctor of Osteopathy]

4. [also: done, did]

1. adj. having finished or arrived at completion; «certain to make history before he’s done»; «it’s a done deed»; «after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up»; «almost through with his studies» [syn: through, through with(p)]

2. cooked until ready to serve

1. v. engage in; «make love, not war»; «make an effort»; «do research»; «do nothing»; «make revolution» [syn: make]

2. 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» [syn: perform, execute]

3. get (something) done; «I did my job» [syn: perform]

4. 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» [syn: fare, make out, come, get along]

5. give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; «cause a commotion»; «make a stir»; «cause an accident» [syn: cause, make]

6. carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; «practice law» [syn: practice, practise, exercise]

7. 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» [syn: suffice, answer, serve]

8. 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» [syn: make] [ant: unmake]

9. 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» [syn: act, behave]

10. spend time in prison or in a labor camp; «He did six years for embezzlement» [syn: serve]

11. carry on or manage; «We could do with a little more help around here» [syn: manage]

12. arrange attractively; «dress my hair for the wedding» [syn: dress, arrange, set, coif, coiffe, coiffure]

13. travel or traverse (a distance); «This car does 150 miles per hour»; «We did 6 miles on our hike every day»

14. [also: done, did]