doing

See also: doïng

English

Alternative forms

• doïng (pedantic)

Etymology 1

See do.

Pronunciation

• enPR: du'ing, IPA^(key): /ˈduːɪŋ/

• Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -uːɪŋ

Verb

doing

1. present participle and gerund of do

Noun

doing (countable and uncountable, plural doings)

1. A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.

   This is his doing. (= "He did it.")

   Draining that swamp is going to take some doing!

   • 1900, Book News, volume 18, page 80:

     Mr. Dawe further calls his voyage “A Record of some Strange Doings at Sea.” They are strange doings, in fact, and yet not as novel as might be expected. They involve mutiny, piracy, shipwreck, and fights with Savages […]

Synonyms

• act; see also Thesaurus:action

Derived terms

• doingness
• evildoing
• harmdoing
• non-doing
• nondoing
• rightdoing
• take some doing
• well-doing
• wrongdoing

 

Translations

a deed or action

• Bulgarian: поведение (bg) n (povedenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 作為／作为 (zh) (zuòwéi), 行為／行为 (zh) (xíngwéi)

• Dutch: toedoen (nl) n
• Finnish: tekeminen (fi)
• German: Tun (de) n
• Japanese: すること (ja) (suru koto), 行為 (ja) (こうい, kōi), 仕業 (ja) (しわざ, shiwaza)
• Latin: actiō (la) f, faciens (la) n
• Macedonian: масло (mk) n (maslo)
• Maori: ahatanga, whanonga
• Polish: czyn (pl) m, sprawka f
• Russian: посту́пок (ru) m (postúpok), дея́ние (ru) n (dejánije), де́йствие (ru) n (déjstvije), де́ло (ru) n (délo)
• Tagalog: gawain
• Turkish: etme (tr)
• Volapük: dun (vo), dunam

Etymology 2

Onomatopœic.

Pronunciation

• enPR: doing, IPA^(key): /dɔɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪŋ

Interjection

doing

1. The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.

Synonyms

• boing

Anagrams

• Gondi, Godin, digon, Diong, ODing, OD'ing, dingo