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English
Etymology 1
See do.
Pronunciation
Verb
doing
- present participle and gerund of do
Noun
doing (countable and uncountable, plural doings)
- 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 […]
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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
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Etymology 2
Onomatopœic.
Pronunciation
Interjection
doing
- The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
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