different between subscribe vs deed

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subscr?bere. Compare its Germanic equivalent underwrite.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /s?b?sk?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Verb

subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)

1. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

2. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
3. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea (used with to).

4. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
5. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
   • 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography:

     […] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;

6. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

7. (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:

     The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.

8. (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity^[1]:

     All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

9. (archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
   • c. 1510, Thomas More, The Life of Pico della Mirandola

     [They] subscribed their names under them.

10. (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
11. (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
13. (transitive) To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.

    Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

14. (intransitive, programming) To register for notifications about an event or similar.

    If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sub?skri?.be/, [s??p?s?k?i?b?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sup?skri.be/, [sup?sk?i?b?]

Verb

subscr?be

1. second-person singular present active imperative of subscr?b?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /subs?k?ibe/, [su??s?k?i.??e]

Verb

subscribe

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of subscribir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of subscribir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of subscribir.

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