Do

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Do may refer to:

• Do, a common dummy auxiliary verb and proform in English
• The first note of the musical scale in solfege; see also musical notation.
• Dominique van Hulst, stage name Do, an Eindhoven Netherlands-born singer
• Do, a debutalbum from Dominique van Hulst
• Marshall Applewhite, nicknamed Do, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult
• A fictional martial art practiced by the Akashic Brotherhood in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
• Dominicana de Aviación (IATA code: DO), the national and international airline of the Dominican Republic from 1944-1995
• Dornier Flugzeugwerke (Do) aircraft
• A prosign for Morse Code
• The part of the armor that protects the trunk (cuirass) in Japanese martial arts
• "Do", a song by The White Stripes from their 1999 album The White Stripes

Do and DO can be abbreviations for:

• Dragon Order, a league of disgruntled ex-SS officers who wish to establish a racially unified Lunara by means of ethnic cleansing.
• Denominación de Origen, a Spanish appellation
• Ditto
• Diffractive Optics, a lens design used on Canon EF lenses to reduce chromatic aberrations and weight
• Directorate of Operations, previously the American national authority for coordinating U.S. human intelligence (HUMINT) services
• Director of Operations
• Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
• Dominican Republic (ISO country code: do)
• Dissolved Oxygen
• Delta Omicron
• 1xEV-DO, a wireless radio broadband data standard adopted by many CDMA mobile phone service providers

In other languages:

• Do (दो دو), the Hindi and Urdu word for the number two.
• It is used in Japanese as a suffix for various arts and implies that they are not just techniques but have spiritual elements. In this circumstance it is usually translated as "the way of". For example, Japanese tea ceremony is called "Sado" (茶道) and flower arrangement is called "Kado" (華道), these translate to "the way of tea" and "the way of flowers" respectively. Since the Meiji era, Japanese martial artists have adopted this suffix for names of martial arts such as Aikido, Judo and Kendo. This convention was introduced to Korea, but not to China, with martial arts themselves during the Japanese rule so that the suffix can be found in Taekwondo.
• Do may refer to the Chinese character 道 (Pinyin: dào; Wade-Giles: tao⁴), which is pronounced dō in Japanese and do (도) in Korean. Its primary meaning is "road" or "way", and derivative meanings include "Daoism", "province", and the very general meaning of "circuit".
• In Korea, Do is the designation for "province". See Provinces of Korea
• In Japan, Dō means "circuit", when used in the name of Hokkaido (北海道) prefecture. See Prefectures of Japan
• Do can refer to the Chinese character 島 (Pinyin: dǎo; Wade-Giles: tao³), which is pronounced do in Korean and means "island". It used in the names of the Korean islands
• Do (Đỗ) may refer to a Vietnamese family name 杜.