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Choice vs Deed - What's the difference?

choice | deed |

As nouns the difference between choice and deed

is that choice is an option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something while deed is an action or act; something that is done.

As an adjective choice

is especially good or preferred.

As a verb deed is

(informal) to transfer real property by deed.

choice

English

(wikipedia choice)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
    Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
  • One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
  • The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
  • Anything that can be chosen.
  • The best or most preferable part.
  • * Milton
  • The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.
  • Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice .
  • (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (anything that can be chosen) assortment, range, selection * the cream * See also

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Especially good or preferred.
  • It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
  • (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
  • Choice ! I'm going to the movies.

    Synonyms

    * (especially good or preferred) prime, prize, quality, select

    deed

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An action or act; something that is done.
  • * Bible, Genesis xliv. 15
  • And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?
  • A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
  • * Spenser
  • knightly deeds
  • * Dryden
  • whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn
  • Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
  • I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed .
  • (legal) A legal contract showing bond.
  • I inherited the deed to the house.

    Synonyms

    * (action) act, action

    Derived terms

    * indeed

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To transfer real property by deed.
  • He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.
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