Word Finder - dos

definition

A party, celebration, social function.

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We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.

synonyms

• get-together

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A hairdo.

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Nice do!

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Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).

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A deed; an act.

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Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.

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• to-do

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A cheat; a swindler.

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An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.

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A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.

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• ut

In early works it is sometimes termed Cidade dos Reis (City of the Kings).

Porto Alegre was founded in 1743 by immigrants from the Azores and was at first known as Porto dos Cazaes.

Portugal Portugal could long boast of only one review, the Jornal enciclopedico (1779-1806), which had many interruptions; then came the Jornal de Coimbra (1812-1820); the Panorama (1836-1857), founded by Herculano; the Revista universal lisbonense (1841-1853), established by Castilho; the Instituto (1853) of Coimbra; the Archivo pittoresco (1857) of Lisbon; and the Jornal do sociedade dos amigos das letteras.

The longest and most prominent of these ranges, which are for the most part the eastern escarpments of the great Brazilian plateau, is the Serra dos Aymores, which extends along fully two-thirds of the western frontier.

This section during the past century has extended southward along the bay shore in a string of suburbs known as the Cattete and Botafogo, with that of Larangeiras behind the Cattete in a pretty valley of the same name, and thence on or near the Atlantic coast as Largo dos Leoes, Copacabana and Gavea, the last including the Botanical Garden.

Opposite to this hall is the Sala de las dos Hermanas (Hall of the two Sisters), so-called from two very beautiful white marble slabs laid as part of the pavement.

There is but one deep inlet of the sea - Great Fish Bay (or Bahia dos Tigres), a little north of the Portuguese-German frontier.

Then airf dos OiVi cos Oi; (16)

The Great Scarcies, the Rio dos Carceres of the Portuguese, rises not far from the sources of the Senegal.

The two first of these were vested in the sovereign, who might be a woman, and who shared the legislative power with two chambers, the Camara dos Pares or House of Peers, and the Camara dos Deputados or House of Commons; these were collectively styled the Corks Geraes, or more briefly the Conies.

In Lisbon a chamber of commerce (Junta do commercio) was organized in 1756 to replace an older association of merchants, the ilIeza dos homens de negocio, which had attacked the Path Company; and in the same year the Alto Douro Company was formed to control the port-wine trade and to break the monopoly enjoyed by a syndicate of British wine merchants.

The most important collections of documents are Colleccdo dos livros ineditos, &c., ed.

Cruz de Coimbra, the Chronica da conquista do Algarve and the Livros dos Linhagens, aristocratic registers, portions of which,, like the story of King Arthur, have considerable literary interest..

All the above may be found in the Portugaliae monumenta historica, scriptores, while the Life of St Elizabeth of Portugal is included in the Monarchia lusitana; Romania has printed the following hagiographical texts belonging to the same century - the Vida de Eufrosina, the Vida de Maria Egypcia and the Vida de Sancto Amaro; the Vida de Santo Eloy has appeared in the Instituto and the Vida dos Santos Barlaao e Josafate has been issued by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

They include, to quote, the more noteworthy, the Descobrimento de Frolida, the Itinerario of Antonio Tenreiro, the Verdadeira informacao das terras do Preste Joao by Francisco Alvares,'and the Ethiopia oriental by Frei Joao dos Santos, both dealing with Abyssinia, the Itinerario da terra santa by Frei Pantaleao de Aveiro, and that much-translated classic, the Historia da vida do padre Francisco Xavier by Padre Joao de Lucena.

The important part taken by Portuguese prelates and theologians at the Council of Trent stimulated religious writing, most of it in Latin, but Frei Bartholomeu dos Martyres, archbishop of Braga, wrote a Cathecismo da doutrina Christa, Frei Luiz de Granada a Compendio de Doutrina Christa and Sermoes, all in Portuguese, and other notable pulpit orators include Diogo de Paiva de Andrade, Padre Luiz Alvares, Dom Antonio Pinheiro and Frei Miguel dos Santos, who preached at the obsequies of King Sebastian.

The ranks of scientists include the cosmographer Pedro Nunes (Nonius), a famous mathematician, and the botanist Garcia da Orta, whose Colloquios dos simples e drogas was the first book to be printed in the East (1563), while the form of Aristotelian scholastic philosophy known as Philosophia conimbricensis had a succession of learned exponents.

The prevailing European fashion of literary academies was not long in reaching Portugal, and 1647 saw the foundation of the Academia dos Generosos which included in its ranks the men most illustrious by learning and social position, and in 1663 the Academia dos Singulares came into being; but with all their pedantry, extravagances and bad taste, it must be confessed that these and similar corporations tended to promote the pursuit of good literature.

The leaders in the movement were Anthero de Quental and Dr Theophilo Braga, the first a student of German philosophy and poetry, the second a disciple of Comte and author of an epic of humanity, Visao dos tempos, whose immense work in the spheres of poetry, criticism and literary history, marred by contradictions, but abounding in life, cannot be judged at present.

Of one-volume books on the same subject, Dr Braga's Curso da Historia da Litteratura portugueza and his Theoria da Historia da Litteratura portugueza (3rd ed., 1881) may be recommended, though the plainer Historia da Litteratura portugueza, by Dr Mendes dos Remedios (3rd ed., 1908) has the considerable advantage for foreign students of including a large number of selected passages from the authors named.

Following is an example DOS style bat batch file to run various options depending on what is required.

But, you must of course have a DOS boot diskette.

Any DOS diskette that has been properly formatted contains some executable code in its boot sector.

Among Dave's tips was a section on using DOS.

Students need to have a DOS from their school to understand the curriculum.

Also note that the 1.51 release includes a large DOS and OS/2 binaries in the zip file, along with the C++ source.

A version compiled to run under ms DOS in the user-friendly ESDUview shell which prompts on-screen for the input data is also provided.

In any event I like to check from plain old DOS since the old real mode program loader is so minimal.

Francis Norton This is a pure DOS / XML / XSLT way of creating an XML file containing directory listing.

Which means that programs will NOT run as fast under it as they would under native DOS.

Why ca n't DOS ever say " Excellent command or filename "?

Extenders which use the services provided by these DPMI host drivers will translate protected mode DOS calls to real mode DOS calls.

Other APIs can be explicitly mapped by the DOS extender.

The other hard disk, which has two DOS partitions, was fine.

A system will only boot from the primary DOS partition of the master drive placed on the Primary IDE channel.

Ana Paula Dos Santos added that the Angolan government vowed to eradicate poliomyelitis by 2005, which calls for a hard work.

Another approach is to use LOADLIN.EXE -- this is a DOS program that loads a Linux (or FreeBSD) kernel.

Overlooking the village are the ruined ramparts of the Castelo dos Mouros, a fort dating from the 8th Century.

You can download a free acrobat reader for DOS, Widows, Macintosh or Unix from Adobe.

I expect they will have used digital wizardry to produce some ersatz evidence of daring dos with which to impress us.

According to these authors, however, including Dos Santos, the paramountcy of the monomotapa was impaired in the 17th century by a series of rebellions.

Compiled versions are also supplied running under MS DOS with the ESDUview user-friendly shell that prompts on-screen for input data.

Naturally, there are a few newborn dos and don'ts which are illustrated well at NewbornBabyZone.com.

Blues, grays, reds and browns work well for daywear and semi-formal dos.

Here are a few dos and don'ts to consider to put your best face forward.

LoveToKnow interviewed Jeanne Sites, a professional babysitter, to find out some dos and don'ts about this popular teen job.

Even though there seems to be lots of "dos" and "don'ts", you can figure out what is proper and what is inappropriate by reading the following interview with Sabrina and Eunice Moyle of Hello!Lucky Wedding Invitations.

They're not setting the current fashion dos, but trailblazing the fashion don'ts.

Guests who have been injured at an amusement park should follow this list of basic dos and don'ts to protect their legal integrity as they consult with an experienced attorney.

If you want to go back to DOS days (and if you have a computer that can run a DOS program), then download Little Fighter and Little Fighter 2.