deal

Signification

Verb

1. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
2. To administer or give out, as in small portions.
3. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
4. deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
5. To pitch.
6. To have dealings or business.
7. To conduct oneself, to behave.
8. (obsolete) To take action; to act.
9. To trade professionally (followed by in).
10. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
11. To be concerned with.
12. To handle, to manage, to cope.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
2. An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).

Noun

1. An act of dealing or sharing out.
2. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
3. A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
4. A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
5. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
6. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
7. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
8. (slang) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.

Noun

1. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
2. A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
3. A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.

Adj

Made of deal.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/diːl/

Étymologie

From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ).