لفظ "do" کے سیاق و سباق کے لحاظ سے کئی مختلف معنی ہو سکتے ہیں۔ لغت کی کچھ ممکنہ تعریفیں یہ ہیں:
نوٹ کریں کہ استعمال شدہ مخصوص لغت کے لحاظ سے لفظ "do" کی اضافی تعریفیں اور باریکیاں ہوسکتی ہیں۔
1. Acknowledgments Writing a book is not an achievement an individual person can do on his or her own.
2. Do you know she had Nana D sitting next to Councilman Stanton at a table in the back row?
3. Ever the talented rascal, Derek was known for dumping his crazy groupies on colleagues and getting everyone else to do his job for him.
4. Why do you leave me here in this boring arctic tundra alone with our parents?
5. Tell me, who do you think will be there tonight besides the usual stuffy colleagues and friends?
6. The things he could do to my body just by winking at me.
7. I can tell you that neither I nor Lorraine had anything to do with it.
8. I had a lot more thinking to do before I could make any definitive decisions.
9. After hemming and hawing about what to do, it seemed more appropriate to call her Myriam rather than Dr.
10. Paramedics arrived and verified there was nothing they could do to help.