DOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does DOE mean? 

• DOE (noun)
  The noun DOE has 2 senses:

1. the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

2. mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'buck'

  Familiarity information: DOE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Energy; DOE; Energy; Energy Department

Hypernyms ("DOE" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "DOE"):

Department of Energy Intelligence; DOEI (an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'buck'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("doe" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

 Context examples 

Now, my dear Watson, does anything remain for me to explain?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the way, there does not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end wall.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"He does dot shust to be politeful to Mrs. Nelson," was Dutchy's quick retort.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Can't say that it does," he replied judicially.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It looks rather old, does it not?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, it's them that, not content with printin' lies on paper an' preachin' them out of pulpits, does want to be cuttin' them on the tombstones.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I think he does himself no good by the habit that has increased upon him since I first came here.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“How does it come that you are alone?”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Yes, sir, he does indeed,” said Poole.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ah, it's a fine dance—I'm with you there—and looks mighty like a hornpipe in a rope's end at Execution Dock by London town, it does.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)