Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Contraction of do not.
- Nonstandard Contraction of does not.
- noun A statement of what should not be done.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contraction of do not, common in colloquial language, and, more improperly, as a contraction of does not (doesn't).
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- phrase Contraction of
do not . - phrase nonstandard Contraction of
does not . - phrase African American Vernacular Used before an emphatic negative subject.
- interjection
Stop !, Don't do that! - noun Something that must not be done (usually in the phrase
dos and don’ts ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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But many using the term don't really understand what they are saying.
Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Why Transmedia is Catching On Tribeca Film 2011
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But many using the term don't really understand what they are saying.
Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Why Transmedia is Catching On Tribeca Film 2011
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Part of the challenge is that they're confusing to both the clients and the employees: The term don't believe agencies that advertise as nonsexual.
Slate Articles Brian Palmer 2011
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Teams that believe they're a year away from a title don't undergo the kind of organizational housecleaning the Mets did last fall.
Pelfrey Was Only Telling the Truth Brian Costa 2011
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To date, nobody can say exactly who or what he is—his clothes, his pose, his expression don't add up.
A Mysterious Stranger in China Lee Lawrence 2011
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The kinds of skyscrapers that bear his name don't get built by people with small egos and a lack of self confidence.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nelson Davis 2011
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And Murray made a sharply critical reference to what she called the "don't touch ours" theme of TV ads aired by the American Association of Retired Persons AARP.
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Google went beyond the phrase "don't be evil" and demonstrated its capacity to do the right thing and not throw its employees under the bus.
unknown title 2011
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Representative Michele Bachmann on Wednesday repeated the phrase "don't settle" over and over to students at Liberty University, founded by the Rev.
NYT > Home Page By TRIP GABRIEL 2011
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• Winner -- Quarterbacks who enter the league with a second- or third-round label don't get anywhere near the same level of respect we shower upon the celebrated first-rounders, but that doesn't seem to be holding back the likes of Colt McCoy, John Beck, Charlie Whitehurst or Ryan Mallett this preseason.
SI.com 2011
chained_bear commented on the word don't
I like this graph, because it's a Wordie list in a gif.
July 22, 2008
sionnach commented on the word don't
Aargh! The dreaded pie-chart. To paraphrase Tufte, "the only display worse than a pie-chart is one which contains multiple pie-charts."
discussion of pie-chart pros and cons
(I like the final sentence in the link, where the writer exhorts his readers as follows:
"Don’t elude yourself, this discussion will never end.")
July 22, 2008
trivet commented on the word don't
The graphjam does have a variety of stuffie-esque graphs.
July 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word don't
Oh god, I love that site. LOVE it... Thanks trivet!
July 22, 2008
whichbe commented on the word don't
Don't think about don't.
August 14, 2008