Found 2 hits - Term: to have to do with, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
have \have\ ha^v, v. t. imp. p. p. had ha^d; p. pr.
vb. n. having. indic. present, i have, thou hast, he
has; we, ye, they have. oe. haven, habben, as. habben
imperf. haefde, p. p. gehaefd; akin to os. hebbian, d.
hebben, ofries. hebba, ohg. hab=en, g. haben, icel. hafa,
sw. hafva, dan. have, goth. haban, and prob. to l. habere,
whence f. avoir. cf. able, avoirdupois, binnacle,
habit.
1. to hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a
farm.
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2. to possess, as something which appertains to, is connected
with, or affects, one.
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the earth hath bubbles, as the water has. --shak.
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he had a fever late. --keats.
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3. to accept possession of; to take or accept.
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break thy mind to me in broken english; wilt thou
have me? --shak.
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4. to get possession of; to obtain; to get. --shak.
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5. to cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire;
to require.
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i had the church accurately described to me. --sir
w. scott.
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wouldst thou have me turn traitor also? --ld.
lytton.
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6. to bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.
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7. to hold, regard, or esteem.
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of them shall i be had in honor. --2 sam. vi.
22.
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8. to cause or force to go; to take. "the stars have us to
bed." --herbert. "have out all men from me." --2 sam.
xiii. 9.
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9. to take or hold one's self; to proceed promptly; -- used
reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to
have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to
aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a
companion. --shak.
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10. to be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled;
followed by an infinitive.
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science has, and will long have, to be a divider
and a separatist. --m. arnold.
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the laws of philology have to be established by
external comparison and induction. --earle.
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11. to understand.
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you have me, have you not? --shak.
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12. to put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of;
as, that is where he had him. slang
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note: have, as an auxiliary verb, is used with the past
participle to form preterit tenses; as, i have loved; i
shall have eaten. originally it was used only with the
participle of transitive verbs, and denoted the
possession of the object in the state indicated by the
participle; as, i have conquered him, i have or hold
him in a conquered state; but it has long since lost
this independent significance, and is used with the
participles both of transitive and intransitive verbs
as a device for expressing past time. had is used,
especially in poetry, for would have or should have.
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myself for such a face had boldly died.
--tennyson.
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to have a care, to take care; to be on one's guard.
to have a man out, to engage one in a duel.
to have done with. see under do, v. i.
to have it out, to speak freely; to bring an affair to a
conclusion.
to have on, to wear.
to have to do with. see under do, v. t.
syn: to possess; to own. see possess.
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see also:
had having have hast has able
avoirdupois binnacle habit to have a care to have a man out
to have done do to have it out to have on to have to do with
possess
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
do \do\ d=oo, v. t. or auxiliary. imp. did di^d; p.
p. done du^n; p. pr. vb. n. doing d=oo"i^ng.
this verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative,
present tense, thus: i do, thou doest d=oo"e^st or dost
du^st, he does du^z, doeth d=oo"e^th, or doth
du^th; when auxiliary, the second person is, thou dost.
as an independent verb, dost is obsolete or rare, except in
poetry. "what dost thou in this world?" --milton. the form
doeth is a verb unlimited, doth, formerly so used, now being
the auxiliary form. the second pers, sing., imperfect tense,
is didst di^dst, formerly didest di^d"e^st. as.
d=on; akin to d. doen, os. duan, ohg. tuon, g. thun, lith.
deti, oslav. d=eti, oir. d'enim i do, gr. tiqe`nai to
put, skr. dh=a, and to e. suffix -dom, and prob. to l.
facere to do, e. fact, and perh. to l. -dere in some
compounds, as addere to add, credere to trust. root65. cf.
deed, deem, doom, fact, creed, theme.
1. to place; to put. obs. --tale of a usurer about 1330.
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2. to cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. obs.
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my lord abbot of westminster did do shewe to me late
certain evidences. --w. caxton.
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i shall . . . your cloister do make. --piers
plowman.
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a fatal plague which many did to die. --spenser.
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we do you to wit i. e., we make you to know of the
grace of god bestowed on the churches of macedonia.
--2 cor. viii.
1.
note: we have lost the idiom shown by the citations do used
like the french faire or laisser, in which the verb in
the infinitive apparently, but not really, has a
passive signification, i. e., cause . . . to be made.
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3. to bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to
effect; to achieve.
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the neglecting it may do much danger. --shak.
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he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
good not harm. --shak.
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4. to perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry
out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty;
to do what i can.
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six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. --ex.
xx. 9.
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we did not do these things. --ld. lytton.
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you can not do wrong without suffering wrong.
--emerson.
hence: to do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to
render homage, honor, etc.
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5. to bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to
finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the
construction, which is that of the past participle done.
"ere summer half be done." "i have done weeping." --shak.
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6. to make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by
cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat
is done on one side only.
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7. to put or bring into a form, state, or condition,
especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death;
to slay; to do away often do away with, to put away; to
remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take
off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form
of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
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done to death by slanderous tongues. -- shak.
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the ground of the difficulty is done away. -- paley.
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suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done
away. --thackeray.
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to do on our own harness, that we may not; but we
must do on the armor of god. -- latimer.
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then jason rose and did on him a fair
blue woolen tunic. -- w. morris
jason.
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though the former legal pollution be now done off,
yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as
much to be shunned. --milton.
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it "pilgrim's progress" has been done into verse:
it has been done into modern english. -- macaulay.
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8. to cheat; to gull; to overreach. colloq.
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he was not be done, at his time of life, by
frivolous offers of a compromise that might have
secured him seventy-five per cent. -- de quincey.
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9. to see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of
interest. colloq.
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10. stock exchange to cash or to advance money for, as a
bill or note.
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11. to perform work upon, about, for, or at, by way of caring
for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in
order, or the like.
the sergeants seem to do themselves pretty well.
--harper's
mag.
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12. to deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to
ruin; to do for. colloq. or slang
sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets,
and fracture his skull, . . . or break his arm, or
cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call
doing him. --charles
reade.
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note:
a do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb
to which they are joined being an infinitive. as an
auxiliary the verb do has no participle. "i do set my
bow in the cloud." --gen. ix. 13. now archaic or
rare except for emphatic assertion.
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rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to
the knowledge of the public. -- macaulay.
b they are often used in emphatic construction. "you
don't say so, mr. jobson. -- but i do say so." --sir
w. scott. "i did love him, but scorn him now."
--latham.
c in negative and interrogative constructions, do and
did are in common use. i do not wish to see them;
what do you think? did caesar cross the tiber? he
did not. "do you love me?" --shak.
d do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
used before imperatives. it expresses entreaty or
earnest request; as, do help me. in the imperative
mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with
the verb to be; as, do be quiet. do, did, and done
often stand as a general substitute or representative
verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
verb. "to live and die is all we have to do."
--denham. in the case of do and did as auxiliaries,
the sense may be completed by the infinitive without
to of the verb represented. "when beauty lived and
died as flowers do now." --shak. "i . . . chose my
wife as she did her wedding gown." --goldsmith.
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my brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
as the light does the shadow. -- longfellow.
in unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the
most part, archaic or poetical; as, "this just
reproach their virtue does excite." --dryden.
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to do one's best, to do one's diligence and the like,
to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or
most diligent efforts. "we will . . . do our best to gain
their assent." --jowett thucyd..
to do one's business, to ruin one. colloq. --wycherley.
to do one shame, to cause one shame. obs.
to do over.
a to make over; to perform a second time.
b to cover; to spread; to smear. "boats . . . sewed
together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff
like rosin." --de foe.
to do to death, to put to death. see 7. obs.
to do up.
a to put up; to raise. obs. --chaucer.
b to pack together and envelop; to pack up.
c to accomplish thoroughly. colloq.
d to starch and iron. "a rich gown of velvet, and a
ruff done up with the famous yellow starch."
--hawthorne.
to do way, to put away; to lay aside. obs. --chaucer.
to do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; --
usually preceded by what. "men are many times brought to
that extremity, that were it not for god they would not
know what to do with themselves." --tillotson.
to have to do with, to have concern, business or
intercourse with; to deal with. when preceded by what, the
notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern
the person denoted by the subject of have. "philology has
to do with language in its fullest sense." --earle. "what
have i to do with you, ye sons of zeruiah?" --2 sam. xvi.
10.
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see also:
did done doing deed deem doom
fact creed theme to do one's best to do one's diligence
to do one's business to do one shame to do over to do to death to do up
to do way to do with to have to do with
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