different between certificate vs deed

English

Etymology

From French certificat.

Pronunciation

• (noun): IPA^(key): /s???t?f?k?t/
• (verb): IPA^(key): /s???t?f??ke?t/
• Rhymes: -?f?k?t, -e?t
• Hyphenation: cer?tif?i?cate

Noun

certificate (plural certificates)

1. A document containing a certified statement.
2. A document evidencing ownership or debt.
3. A document serving as evidence as a person has completed an educational course, issued either by an institution not authorised to grant diplomas, or to a student not qualifying for a diploma.
4. (computing theory) The information needed in order to verify a positive answer to a problem.
5. (Britain, Ireland) A motion picture age rating.

Translations

Verb

certificate (third-person singular simple present certificates, present participle certificating, simple past and past participle certificated)

1. To supply with a certificate, especially following certification

Related terms

• certify
• certified

Translations

Italian

Verb

certificate

1. second-person plural present of certificare
2. second-person plural imperative of certificare
3. feminine plural past participle of certificare

English

Etymology

From Middle English dede, from Old English d?d, d?d (“deed, act”), from Proto-West Germanic *d?di, from Proto-Germanic *d?diz (“deed”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?éh?tis (“deed, action”). Analyzable through Proto-Germanic as do +? -th. Doublet of thesis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

deed (plural deeds)

1. An action or act; something that is done.

   • And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?

2. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
   • whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn

3. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.

   I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed.

4. (law) A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.

   I inherited the deed to the house.

Synonyms

• (action): act, action; see also Thesaurus:action
• (law): document, certificate, instrument

Derived terms

• deedful
• deedholder
• deedless
• deedly
• deed of assumption
• deed poll
• indeed
• misdeed

Translations

Verb

deed (third-person singular simple present deeds, present participle deeding, simple past and past participle deeded)

1. (informal) To transfer real property by deed.

   He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.

Derived terms

• undeeded

Translations

Anagrams

• dede

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?t/

Verb

deed

1. singular past indicative of doen

Anagrams

• dede

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ded

Etymology

From Old English d?ad.

Adjective

deed

1. dead (no longer alive)
2. inert, inactive.

Related terms

• dedly

Descendants

• English: dead
• Scots: dede, deid, deed
• Yola: deed

References

• “d?d, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Scots

Verb

deed

1. past participle of dee
2. (South Scots) past participle of dei

Adverb

deed

1. indeed

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English deed.

Adjective

deed

1. dead

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN