text: what are we all doing?   possibly you can find solace in the following:  do can refer to:  in english, do is a verb whose use as an auxiliary verb is often grammatically required for negation and for interrogative sentences.   in solfege, do is the name of the first note of the scale. the note c in the major scale of music. (see also middle c).   the chinese character 道 (pinyin: dào; wade-giles: tao⁴), which is pronounced dō in japanese and do (도) in korean. its primary meaning is "road" or "way," and derivative meanings include "daoism," "province," and the very general meaning of "circuit."   in korea, do is the designation for "province," as in gyeonggi-do (경기도; 京畿道). see provinces of korea.   in japan, dō means "circuit," when used in the name of hokkaido (北海道) prefecture. see prefectures of japan.   in japan, the character also means "road," as in tokaido (東海道) and nakasendo (中山道).   it is used as a suffix for various arts and implies that they are not just techniques but have spiritual elements. in this circumstance it is usually translated as "the way of." for example, japanese tea ceremony is called "sado" (茶道) and flower arrangement is called "kado" (華道), these translate to "the way of tea" and "the way of flowers" respectively. since the meiji era, japanese martial artists have adopted this suffix for names of martial arts such as aikido, judo and kendo. this convention was introduced to korea, but not to china, with martial arts themselves during the japanese rule so that the suffix can be found in taekwondo.   the chinese character 島 (pinyin: dǎo; wade-giles: tao³), which is pronounced do in korean and means "island". it used in the names of korean islands (e.g., ganghwa-do (강화도; 江華島), and ulleung-do (울릉도; 鬱陵島). note that "jeju-do" transliterates two distinct korean terms: "jeju province" (제주도; 濟州道) and "jeju island" (제주도; 濟州島).   in japanese martial arts, the part of the armor that protects the trunk (cuirass).   dominique van hulst, an eindhoven netherlands-born singer, most famous for singing the chorus on dj sammy's 2002 worldwide smash, "heaven".   do is the iso country code for the dominican republic.   do is the iata code for dominicana airline   the dornier (do) aircraft.   a nickname of marshall applewhite.   denominación de origen, a spanish appellation.   short form for the scientific concept of dissolved oxygen.   an abbreviation (do) for the united states central intelligence agency's directorate of operations.   an abbreviation (do) for 'director of operations'.   an abbreviation for hairdo.   an abbreviation for ditto (do.), meaning "repeat the above info here".   in capital letters (do), an informal writing of d.o., a title suffix for doctor of osteopathic medicine   in the role-playing game mage: the ascension, do ("the way") is a martial art practiced by the akashic brotherhood.   diffractive optics is a canon inc. lens design to reduce chromatic aberrations and weight.   in computer science, distributed objects is a system for distributing work in an object oriented computer system.   in wireless telecommunications, a shortened version (do) of the standard 1xev-do.   in morse code, do signals a shift to wabun code a japanese syllabic variant of morse code.