Ado

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ado
       n : a rapid bustling commotion [syn: {bustle}, {hustle}, {flurry},
            {fuss}, {stir}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "ado":
     agitation, annoyance, anxiety, besetment, bother, botheration,
     brawl, broil, brouhaha, burst, bustle, can of worms, commotion,
     confusion, disadvantage, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair,
     dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, effort,
     embroilment, evil, exertion, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation,
     fidgetiness, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness,
     foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness,
     great ado, hassle, headache, helter-skelter, hubbub, hullabaloo,
     hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, inconvenience, maelstrom, matter,
     melee, pains, peck of troubles, pell-mell, perturbation, pother,
     problem, racket, rampage, restlessness, riot, rough-and-tumble,
     roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble,
     sea of troubles, shindy, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat, swirl,
     swirling, to-do, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unquiet,
     uproar, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, worry, yeastiness
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ADO
       ActiveX Data Objects (ASP, ODBC, MS, IIS)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ADO
       
          {ActiveX Data Objects}