different between method vs deed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???d/
• Hyphenation: meth?od

Etymology 1

From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (méthodos).

Noun

method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)

1. A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):

2. (acting, often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Konstantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed.

   Synonym: method acting
3. (object-oriented programming) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.

   Synonym: member function
4. (slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

5. (dated) An instruction book systematically arranged.

Hyponyms

Translations

Verb

method (third-person singular simple present methods, present participle methoding, simple past and past participle methoded)

1. (transitive) to apply a method
   • 1809, Rachel Russell (baroness.), Letters. To which is prefixed, an intr. vindicating the character of lord ...

     "Says he, there is above ten thousand brisk boys are ready to follow me, whenever I hold up my finger : — Says I, how have you methoded this, that they shall not be crushed, for there will be a great force to oppose you?"

2. (casting, by extension, transitive) to apply particular treatment methods to a mold

   The company employs extensive use of 3D modelling combined with solidification simulation to ensure that critical castings are properly methoded.

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

method (plural methods)

1. (skateboarding, snowboarding) Ellipsis of method air.

Anagrams

• mothed

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