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ADO

name
/əˈduː/

Etymology

From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.

  1. inherited from at do — “to do”

Definitions

  1. Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.

  2. Trouble

    Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.

    • Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ADO. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA