different between feat vs jeat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?t/
• Homophone: feet
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.

Noun

feat (plural feats)

1. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

Derived terms

• no small feat
• no mean feat

Translations

Adjective

feat (comparative feater, superlative featest)

1. (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, “The Shepheards Tale,” p. 17,^[2]

     […] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest.

   • 1593, Thomas Lodge, Phillis, London: John Busbie, “Induction,”^[3]

     Oh you high sp’rited Paragons of witte,

     That flye to fame beyond our earthly pitch,

     Whose sence is sound, whose words are feat and fitte,

     Able to make the coyest eare to itch:

     Shroud with your mighty wings that mount so well,

     These little loues, new crept from out the shell.

   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act V, Scene 5,^[4]

     […] never master had

     A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,

     So tender over his occasions, true,

     So feat, so nurse-like:

   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1,^[5]

     And look how well my garments sit upon me;

     Much feater than before:

Verb

feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)

1. (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 1,^[6]

     […] most praised, most loved,

     A sample to the youngest, to the more mature

     A glass that feated them, and to the graver

     A child that guided dotards;

Etymology 2

Clipping of feature. See also the abbreviation feat.

Verb

feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)

1. (transitive, informal) To feature. I

Anagrams

• EFTA, Fate, TAFE, TFAE, fate, feta

English

Noun

jeat (plural jeats)

1. Obsolete form of jet.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, A Funeral Elegy, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (editors), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5, page 179,

     'T is loss to trust a tomb with such a guest, / Or to confine her in a marble chest, / Alas! what's marble, jeat, or porphyry,

   • 1758, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 28, page 10,

     To make a Grey Colour.

     Take iron ?cales, a little cri?tal, and ?ome ?mall quantity of jeat, grind the?e well together upon a painter's ?tone; the more jeat ye take, the ?adder the colour will be, and likewi?e the more cri?tal you put to it the lighter.

Anagrams

• Jate