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Do may refer to:

• In English, do is a verb whose use as an auxiliary verb is often grammatically required for negation and for interrogative sentences
• In solfege, do is the name of the first note of the scale. The note C in the Major scale of music. (See also Middle C)
• 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," as in Gyeonggi-do (경기도; 京畿道). See Provinces of Korea
• *In Japan, Dō means "circuit," when used in the name of Hokkaido (北海道) prefecture. See Prefectures of Japan
• *In Japan, the character also means "road," as in Tokaido (東海道) and Nakasendo (中山道)
• *It is used 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
• the Chinese character 島 (Pinyin: dǎo; Wade-Giles: tao³), which is pronounced do in Korean and means "island". It used in the names of Korean islands (e.g., Ganghwa-do (강화도; 江華島), and Ulleung-do (울릉도; 鬱陵島). Note that "Jeju-do" transliterates two distinct Korean terms: "Jeju Province" (제주도; 濟州道) and "Jeju Island" (제주도; 濟州島)
• In Japanese martial arts, the part of the armor that protects the trunk (cuirass)
• Dominique van Hulst, stage name Do, an Eindhoven Netherlands-born singer, most famous for singing the chorus on DJ Sammy's 2002 worldwide smash, "Heaven"
• Dominican Republic (ISO country code: do)
• The Dornier GmbH (Do) aircraft
• An abbreviation for hairdo
• An abbreviation for ditto (do.), meaning "repeat the above info here"
• In the role-playing game , Do ("the Way") is a martial art practiced by the Akashic Brotherhood
• In Morse code, DO signals a shift to Wabun code a Japanese Syllabic variant of Morse code
• Marshall Applewhite, nicknamed Do, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult who died in the cult's suicide in 1997

• Dominicana de Aviación (IATA code: DO), the national and international airline of the Dominican Republic from 1944-1995
• Denominación de Origen, a Spanish appellation
• Dissolved Oxygen
• D.O., a title suffix for Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
• 1xEV-DO, a wireless radio broadband data standard adopted by many CDMA mobile phone service providers
• 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
• Distributed Objects, a system for distributing work in an object oriented computer system