Doer

Definition: Doer

Doer

Noun

1. A person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker".

Date "doer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Note: Doer \Do"er\, m. [From Do, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Doer

Synonyms: actor (n), worker (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Doer

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agent	Noun: doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager.
Bane	Rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper; (evil doer); demon.
Evil	Mental suffering. demon &Verb:. bane. badness; painfulness; evil doer.
Evil doer	Noun: evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast.
Flatterer	Toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur, proneur; puffer, touter, claqueur; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on; (servility).
Inexpedience	Evil doer; bane; plague spot; (insalubrity); evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid, thorn in the side.
Pain	Cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker; (bane); scorpion; (evil doer); dagger; (arms); scourge; (instrument of punishment); carking care, canker worm of care.
Servility	Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Doer

English words defined with "doer": Active voice ♦ -ee ♦ Facient, Faitour ♦ -ist ♦ Middle voice ♦ -or ♦ The evil one. (references)

Specialty definitions using "doer": Factor ♦ Outcome. (references)

Etymologies containing "doer": Faitour. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Doer" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (ache, ail, hurt, pain, sting, tingle), Russian (performer).

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Modern Usage: Doer

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Daar Doer In Die Bosveld (1951)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Doer

Domain	Title
Books	A Just Complaint Against an Unjust Doer (English Experience, No 793) (reference) Be a Doer, Not a Viewer (reference) Huey P. Long: Talker and Doer (reference) Jesus is a Miracle Doer (reference) (more book examples)

Music	DOER OF THE WORD (reference) Doer of the World (reference) Doer of the World [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Doer

Author	Quotation
Homer	To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
Seneca	A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Theodore Roosevelt	It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Doer

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of an act is judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Doer

"Doer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doer" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	25	69,787

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Doer

Expressions using "doer": evil doer ♦ good doer ♦ well doer ♦ wrong doer. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "doer": doer-of-good-works.
	Ending with "doer": evil-doer, harm-doer, ill-doer, wonder-doer, wrong-doer, x-doer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Doer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ab doer	495	ab doer extreme	6
doer	54	ab doer manual	5
ab doer ii	21	ab doer instructions	5
ab doer video	19	total body doer	4
doer mn	17	doer election majority manitoba ndp	4
doer dreamer	17	ab doer model pro	4
ad doer	15	doer feeding poor	3
doer gary	15	abs doer extreme	3
ab doer review	14	ab doer manuel	3
doer total	14	doer minnesota state	3
doer dreamer nova scotia	11	evil doer	3
ab doer pro	10	ab doer machine	3
ab doer 2	10	ab ab doer dolly.com	2
doer dreamer guide	9	ab doer does work	2
ab doer exercise	9	ab doer xtreme	2
doer dreamer guide nova scotia	9	doer word	2
doer minnesota	6	abs doer	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Doer

Language		Translations for "doer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njeri i punëve, njeri dinamik, bërës. (various references)

Arabic		‏الفاعل (actor), ‏المنقذ (rescuer, savior, saviour). (various references)

Bulgarian		извършител (author, executant, perpetrator), изпълнител (enactor, executant, executer, executor, exponent, impersonator, performer, personator), деятел (agent, functionary). (various references)

Czech		muž èinu. (various references)

Farsi		فاعل (Subject), نماینده (Agent, Delegate, Deputation, Deputy, Envoy, Exponent, Indicator, Proxy, Representation, Representative, Symptomatic), کننده , عامل (Agent, Element, Operative, Potential). (various references)

French		auteur de l'action, auteur. (various references)

German		macher (maker, man of action), Handelnde. (various references)

Greek		πράττων (acting, doing). (various references)

Hebrew		מחולל (dancer, generator, originator, performer), עוש�", �'ומל (correlative), בעל מרץ (energetic person, hustler, live wire), בצועיסט (go getter). (various references)

Hungarian		tevõ (setter), cselekvõ. (various references)

Indonesian		pelaku (actor, agent, performer, subject), pelakon (actor, actress, performer). (various references)

Italian		chi fa. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		行為者 (performer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"ういしゃ (performer). (various references)

Manx		jeantagh (fabricator, maker, manufacturer, performer, practical, producer). (various references)

Pig Latin		oerday

Portuguese		executor (executioner, executor, headsman, jack ketch). (various references)

Romanian		persoanã activã (stirrer), fãcãtor (author, creator, maker, making, working), executant (executant, executor, hand, performer), autor (author, contriver, creator, father, hand, originator, penman, perpetrator, promoter, starter, writer). (various references)

Russian		созидатель (creator), плут (blackleg, crook, juggler, no good, picaroon, rascal, rogue, slyboots, varlet), деятель. (various references)

Scottish		eucorach (an unjust person, See <A HREF="mf05.html#eucoir">eucoir</A>, wrong doer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vršilac (executor, performer), čovek od dela. (various references)

Spanish		hacedor (maker). (various references)

Swedish		verkställare. (various references)

Turkish		yapan (acting, maker, monger, performer), fail (maker, perpetrator, principal, subject), eden. (various references)

Ukrainian		шахрай (beat, bilker, charlatan, cheat, deceiver, gambler, jockey, knave, phony, picaroon, prick, racketeer, rascal, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, shark, sharp, sharper, swindler), виконавець (executant, performer), агент (agent, assignee, broker, emissary, envoy, factor), діяч (actor). (various references)

Vietnamese		người thực hiện (executor), người l� m (employee, maker, wright). (various references)

Welsh		gwneuthurwr (maker), gweithredydd (agent, factor), gweithredwr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Doer

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	actoribus, executor, factor. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Doer

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	KakoV upakouei glwsshV paranomwn dikaioV de ou prosecei ceilesin yeudesin
Latin	405	Vulgate	Malus oboedit linguae iniquae et fallax obtemperat labiis mendacibus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	The euele man obesheth to the wicke tunge; and the desceyuable consenteth to the liende lippis.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips: and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Doer

Language	Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 4
Cebuano	¶ Ang mamumuhat sa kadautan magapamati sa dautang mga ngabil; Ug ang usa ka bakakon nagapatalinghug sa usa ka dila nga makadaut
Croatian	Zloèinac rado sluša usne prijevarne, i lažac spremno prisluškuje pogubnu jeziku.
Danish	Den onde hører på onde Læber, Løgneren lytter til giftige Tunger.
Dutch	De boosdoener merkt op de ongerechtige lip; een leugenaar neigt het oor tot de verkeerde tong.
Finnish	Paha kuuntelee häijyjä huulia, petollisuus kuulee pahoja kieliä.
French	Le méchant est attentif � la lèvre inique, Le menteur prête l`oreille � la langue pernicieuse.
German	Ein Böser achtet auf böse Mäuler, und ein Falscher gehorcht den schädlichen Zungen.
Hungarian	A gonosztevõ hallgat az álnok beszédekre, a csalárd hallgat a gonosz nyelvre.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang jahat menuruti saran-saran yang jahat, pendusta suka mendengarkan kata-kata fitnahan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Orang yang hendak berbuat jahat itu mengindahkan mulut yang salah, dan seorang pembohong mencenderungkan telinganya kepada lidah bercabang.
Italian	Il maligno presta attenzione a un labbro maledico, il bugiardo ascolta una lingua nociva.
Maori	¶ Ko te kaimahi i te he ka tahuri ki ta te ngutu kino; a ka whai taringa te teka ki ta te arero whanoke.
Norwegian	Den onde akter på ondskaps lebe; løgneren lytter til ødeleggelses tunge.
Portuguese	O malfazejo atenta para o lábio iníquo; o mentiroso inclina os ouvidos para a língua maligna.
Rumanian	Cel rqu ascultq cu luare aminte la buza nelegiuitq, wi mincinosul pleacq urechea la limba nimicitoare. -
Russian	ъМП�"ЕК ЧОЙНБЕФ ХУФБН �'ЕЪЪБЛПООЩН, МЦЕ�" УМХЫБЕФУС СЪЩЛБ � БЗХ�'ОПЗП.
Spanish	El malhechor está atento al labio inicuo, y el mentiroso escucha a la lengua destructora.
Swedish	En ond människa aktar på ondskefulla läppar, falskheten lyssnar till fördärvliga tungor.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Doer

Derivations
	Words beginning with "doer": doers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "doer": evildoer, misdoer, outdoer, overdoer, undoer, welldoer, wrongdoer. (additional references)
	Words containing "doer": endoergic, evildoers, misdoers, outdoers, overdoers, undoers, welldoers, wrongdoers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Doer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daer, daqer, Daxer, dder, Ddoe, deog, Deok, deor, deorc, deorn, deow, der, dero, derp, Derx, dier, Djer, Djoe, djore, Djoser, dler, doa, dober, doceor, docer, doec, doef, doei, doek, doem, do'em, doerr, doet, D'oex, doey, doez, D'oger, doier, doif, doik, doir, doire, doiry, doker, doler, Dolerw, domer, doner, dooer, doorn, dorea, doree, dorel, doren, doreo, dorer, Dorey, dorf, dorj, dorq, dorro, doser, douer, dourd, douri, doyer, D'oyre, dozery, dreo, droar, duar, duer, duero, Duerr, duir, dver, dwor, odar, odert, Odier, oer, ooer, toer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Doer"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "doer" (pronounced duw"r)
3	d uw" r	grandeur.
2	-uw" r	raconteur, voyeur.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Doer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dore, redo, rode.
	Words within the letters "d-e-o-r"
	-1 letter: doe, dor, ode, ore, red, rod, roe.
	-2 letters: de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-o-r"
	+1 letter: adore, bored, coder, cored, credo, decor, doers, doper, doser, doter, dower, dozer, drone, drove, erode, gored, horde, oared, odder, older, orbed, order, oread, pedro, pored, redon, redos, redox, resod, robed, rodeo, roped, rosed, roved, rowed, trode, uredo.
	+2 letters: adored, adorer, adores, bolder, bonder, bordel, border, boride, browed, chored, codder, coders, codger, colder, corded, corder, corked, corned, credos, crowed, debtor, decors, deform, dehorn, dehort, deodar, deport, desorb, detour, devoir, devour, deworm, dextro, dinero, dobber, docker, dodder, dodger, doffer, dogear, dogger, doozer, dopers, dopier, dories, dormer, dormie, dorper, dorsel, dorser, dosers, dosser, doters, dotier, dotter, dourer, douser, dowers, dowery, downer, dowser, dozers, dozier, drogue, droned, droner, drones, droved, drover, droves, drowse, editor, emerod, enduro, eroded, erodes, fedora, fodder, folder, fonder, forced, forded, foredo, forged, forked, formed, golder, gorged, gourde, groped, groved, holder, horded, hordes, horned, horsed, ironed, loader, lodger, lorded, louder, loured, modern, molder, moored, nodder, normed, ochred, odored, orated, ordeal, orders, ordure, oreads, oreide, oroide, overdo, overed, pedros, period, polder, ponder, ported, poured, powder, probed, prosed, proved, radome, rebody, recode, record, redock, redoes, redone, redons, redout, redowa, redtop, refold, reload, remold, reshod, resods, resold, retold, reword, rioted, roadeo, roadie, roamed, roared, robbed, rocked, rodded, rodent, rodeos, rodmen, rogued, roiled, rolfed, rolled, romped, rondel, roofed, rooked, roomed, roosed, rooted, rotted, rouged, rouped, roused, routed, sarode, scored, shored, snored, soared, solder, sonder, sorbed, sorned, sorted, soured, spored, stored, strode, teredo, toured, triode, troked, trowed, undoer, uredos, vendor, voider, weirdo, weldor, whored, wonder, worded, worked, wormed, yodler, yonder, zeroed.
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