Definitions
Etymologies
- From the verb do. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Hence, even if ˜Socrates does not exist™ were to contain the predicate ˜does not exist™, the property stood for by that predicate could at most be a Cambridge one; and Cambridge properties can be acquired even by individuals that do not exist at the time.”
“It does not follow that they are able to marry her, but it _does_ follow that, meet whom they may later, no one will ever oust from her place that first woman in their memories.”
“Now that I have told you what it does _not_ mean, let me try to make plain just what it _does_ mean.”
The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg
“I am surprised, Steerforthalthough your candour does you honour, said Mr. Creakle, does you honour, certainlyI am surprised, Steerforth, I must say, that you should attach such an epithet to any person employed and paid in Salem House, Sir.”
“[38] If this does not mean that England was an accessory before the fact to the murder of the Archduke, what _does_ it mean?”
“The negro does not censure the white man for his conclusions as they are the logical consequence of his premises, but he _does_ object to his premises.”
“Cheap seed -- and that means _poor_ seed, _always_ -- does not contain the varieties of grasses necessary to the making of a rich, deep, velvety sward, and it almost always _does_ contain the seeds of noxious weeds which will make your lawn a failure.”
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
“The conclusion meanwhile is that, since Brahman does not fall within the sphere of the other means of knowledge, and is the topic of Scripture only, the text 'from whence these creatures,' &c., _does_ give authoritative information as to a Brahman possessing the characteristic qualities so often enumerated.”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
“Poor Zillah does her best to persuade me that she _does_ know.”
“He who does not think well of this makes a grave mistake, for while he thinks people will not know the inferiority of his work, there is always some one in the audience who _does know_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘does’.
-
EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
-
EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
-
allophonic homographs revisited
In 2007, wired weird started a marvelous list:
Two words, one spelling, two pronunciations
peaked, atour, sidereal, logit, number, minute, wound, bow, agape, lead, desert, buffet and 11 more...
-
Bi-sonics
Allophonic homographs. Words that are pronounced at least 2 ways, having different senses. 'august' and 'polish' are less ambiguous since capitalization make the correct pronunciation clear (at lea...
sow, row, dove, polish, precedent, rewet, lower, read, bass, patent, primer, tear and 102 more...
-
aparrish's Words
the, this, and, a, that, i, me, you, him, her, she, he and 96 more...
-
US - national anthem vocabulary
All words and phrases (except the most common articles and prepositions)
For a word frequency analysis see:
air, band, foe, O, beam, blest, God, banner, battle, battle's~confusion, blood, blow and 174 more... -
homographs
same spelling, multiple meanings. sometimes different pronunciations.
still, bow, strain, cleave, lead, trunk, dove, mark, tear, nick, does, well and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for does.

milosrdenstvi This is the only word I can think of with an irregular pronunciation in the 3rd person singular. Dec 29, 2010
srkrause Does it really matter what he does to the does? It do! Mar 26, 2008
oroboros The buck does strange things when the does are around. Mar 26, 2008