Ado

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

ado
    n 1: a rapid active commotion [syn: {bustle}, {hustle},
         {flurry}, {ado}, {fuss}, {stir}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss;
      bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
      [1913 Webster]

            With much ado, he partly kept awake.  --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

            Let's follow to see the end of this ado. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

ActiveX Data Objects
ADO

   <database, Microsoft, programming> (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)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

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

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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