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doing (root: do)
OXFORD DICTIONARY
doing, n.
1 a an action; the performance of a deed (famous for his doings; it was my doing). b activity, effort (it takes a lot of doing).
2 colloq. a scolding; a beating.
3 (in pl.) sl. things needed; adjuncts; things whose names are not known (have we got all the doings?).
1 a an action; the performance of a deed (famous for his doings; it was my doing). b activity, effort (it takes a lot of doing).
2 colloq. a scolding; a beating.
3 (in pl.) sl. things needed; adjuncts; things whose names are not known (have we got all the doings?).
THESAURUS
doing
accidental, accompanying, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, acts, address, ado, adventure, affair, affectation, afloat, afoot, air, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, blow, bringing to fruition, business, carriage, circumstantial, comportment, concern, concernment, conduct, coup, culture pattern, current, custom, dealings, deed, demeanor, deportment, doings, effectuation, effort, employment, endeavor, enterprise, eventuating, execution, exercise, exploit, fait accompli, feat, folkway, function, functioning, gest, gestures, go, going on, goings-on, guise, hand, handiwork, happening, in hand, in the wind, incidental, interest, job, maintien, maneuver, manner, manners, matter, measure, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motions, move, movements, moves, observable behavior, occasional, occupation, occurring, on, on foot, ongoing, operation, operations, overproduction, overt act, passage, passing, pattern, performance, play, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, prevailing, prevalent, procedure, proceeding, production, productiveness, realization, res gestae, resultant, social science, step, stroke, stunt, style, swing, tactics, taking place, thing, thing done, tone, tour de force, transaction, turn, under way, undertaking, way, way of life, ways, work, working, workings, worksROGET THESAURUS
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Action
N action, performance, doing perpetration, exercise, excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor, praxis, execution, procedure, handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force, feat, exploit, achievement, handiwork, workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy, actor, doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation, in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of, red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in, action is eloquence, actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, awake, arise, or be forever fall'n, dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, the great end of life is not knowledge but action, thought is the soul of act, vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, we live in deeds not years.Eventuality
N eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact, matter of fact, naked fact, bare facts, just the facts, phenomenon, advent, business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding, circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence, opportunity (occasion), the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general, things in general, affairs in general, the times, state of affairs, order of the day, course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events, ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life, chapter of accidents, situation, happening, going on, doing, current, in the wind, in the air, afloat, on foot, afoot, on the tapis, at issue, in question, incidental, eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident, memorable, momentous, signal, eventually, in the event of, in case, just in case, in the course of things, as things, times go, as the world goes, wags, as the tree falls, cat jumps, as it may turn out, happen, that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles, you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring, the plot thickens, breasts the blows of circumstance, so runs round of life from hour to hour, sprinkled along the waste of years.For further exploring for "doing" in Webster Dictionary Online