text: Possibly you can find solace in the following:\n\nDo can refer to:\n\nIn English, do is a verb whose use as an auxiliary verb is often grammatically required for negation and for interrogative sentences. \n\nIn 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). \n\nThe 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." \n\nIn Korea, Do is the designation for "province," as in Gyeonggi-do (경기도; 京畿道). See Provinces of Korea. \n\nIn Japan, Dō means "circuit," when used in the name of Hokkaido (北海道) prefecture. See Prefectures of Japan. \n\nIn Japan, the character also means "road," as in Tokaido (東海道) and Nakasendo (中山道). \n\nIt 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. \n\nthe 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). \n\nIn Japanese martial arts, the part of the armor that protects the trunk (cuirass). \n\nDominique van Hulst, an Eindhoven Netherlands-born singer, most famous for singing the chorus on DJ Sammy's 2002 worldwide smash, "Heaven". \n\ndo is the ISO country code for the Dominican Republic. \n\nDO is the IATA code for Dominicana airline \n\nThe Dornier (Do) aircraft. \n\nA nickname of Marshall Applewhite. \n\nDenominación de Origen, a Spanish appellation. \n\nShort form for the scientific concept of Dissolved Oxygen. \n\nAn abbreviation (DO) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations. \n\nAn abbreviation (DO) for 'director of operations'. \n\nAn abbreviation for hairdo. \n\nAn abbreviation for ditto (do.), meaning "repeat the above info here". \n\nIn capital letters (DO), an informal writing of D.O., a title suffix for Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine \n\nIn the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension, Do ("the Way") is a martial art practiced by the Akashic Brotherhood. \n\nDiffractive Optics is a Canon Inc. lens design to reduce chromatic aberrations and weight. \n\nIn computer science, Distributed Objects is a system for distributing work in an object oriented computer system. \n\nIn wireless telecommunications, a shortened version (DO) of the standard 1xEV-DO. \n\nIn Morse code, DO signals a shift to Wabun code a Japanese Syllabic variant of Morse code.