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.
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   2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss;
      bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
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            With much ado, he partly kept awake.  --Dryden.
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            Let's follow to see the end of this ado. --Shak.
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	ado
    n 1: a rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle,
         flurry, ado, fuss, stir]

	

	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

	

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

	

	ActiveX Data Objects
ADO

    (ADO) Microsoft's
   library for accessing data sources through OLE DB.
   Typically it is used to query or modify data stored in a
   relational database.

   Home
   
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ado270/htm/adostartpage1.asp).

   (2003-07-08)