1.
[syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ado \A*do"\ ([.a]*d[=oo]"), (1) v. inf., (2) n. [OE. at do,
northern form for to do. Cf. Affair.]
1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. "What is here
ado?" --J. Newton.
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2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss;
bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
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With much ado, he partly kept awake. --Dryden.
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Let's follow to see the end of this ado. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ado
n 1: a rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle,
flurry, ado, fuss, stir]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
ActiveX Data Objects
ADO
(ADO) Microsoft's
library for accessing data sources through OLE DB.
Typically it is used to query or modify data stored in a
relational database.
Home
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ado270/htm/adostartpage1.asp).
(2003-07-08)