ALL meanings of dos
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D d - idioms dos do a number on (someone). number (def 39). 1
- idioms dos do away with, to put an end to; abolish. to kill. 1
- idioms dos do one proud. proud (def 11). 1
- idioms dos do one's number. number (def 40). 1
- idioms dos do one's (own) thing. thing1 (def 22). 1
- idioms dos do or die, to make a supreme effort. 1
- idioms dos do out of, Informal. to swindle; cheat: A furniture store did me out of several hundred dollars. 1
- idioms dos dos and don'ts, customs, rules, or regulations: The dos and don'ts of polite manners are easy to learn. 1
- idioms dos do time, Informal. to serve a term in prison: It's hard to get a decent job once you've done time. 1
- idioms dos do to death. death (def 15). 1
- idioms dos have to do with. have (def 37). 1
- idioms dos make do, to get along with what is at hand, despite its inadequacy: I can't afford a new coat so I have to make do with this one. 1
- noun Technical meaning of dos (operating system) 1. The common abbreviation for MS-DOS. 2. IBM's Disk Operating System. 3. Any disk operating system. 1
- noun dos computing: Disk Operating System 1
- noun dos Denial of service. 1
- noun dos any of several single-user, command-driven operating systems for personal computers, especially MS DOS. 1
- noun plural dos Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion. 1
- noun plural dos Informal. a hairdo or hair styling. 1
- noun plural dos British Slang. a swindle; hoax. 1
- noun plural dos Chiefly British. a festive social gathering; party. 1
- noun plural dos the syllable used for the first tone or keynote of a diatonic scale. 1
- noun plural dos (in the fixed system of solmization) the tone C. Compare sol-fa (def 1), ut. 1
- uncountable noun dos DOS is the part of a computer operating system that controls and manages files and programs stored on disk. DOS is an abbreviation for 'disk operating system'. 0
- noun acronym dos disk-operating system, often prefixed, as in MS-DOS and PC-DOS; a computer operating system 0
- noun dos an operating system that resides on a disk 0
- noun dos plural of do. 0