5 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

ado

noun: a rapid bustling commotion [syn: {bustle}, {hustle}, {flurry}, {fuss}, {stir}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Ado \A*do"\ ([.a]*d[=oo]"), (1) v. inf., (2) n. [OE. at do, northern form for to do. Cf. {Affair}.]

1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. ''What is here ado?'' --J. Newton.

2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.

With much ado, he partly kept awake. --Dryden.

Let's follow to see the end of this ado. --Shak. ||

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

97 Moby Thesaurus words for "ado": agitation, annoyance, anxiety, besetment, bother, botheration, brawl, broil, brouhaha, burst, bustle, can of worms, commotion, confusion, disadvantage, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, effort, embroilment, evil, exertion, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fidgetiness, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, great ado, hassle, headache, helter-skelter, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, inconvenience, maelstrom, matter, melee, pains, peck of troubles, pell-mell, perturbation, pother, problem, racket, rampage, restlessness, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, sea of troubles, shindy, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat, swirl, swirling, to-do, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unquiet, uproar, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, worry, yeastiness

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

ADO {ActiveX Data Objects}

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

ADO ActiveX Data Objects (ASP, ODBC, MS, IIS)
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