Deal vs Interest - What's the difference?
deal | interest |
(obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
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An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (''now usually qualified by'' (great) ''or (good)).
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*1814 , (Jane Austen), Mansfield Park , Ch.2:
*:There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in every thing else, and therefore you should make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency.
*1851 , (Herman Melville), Moby-Dick , Ch.32:
*:There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized.
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
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, passage=“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal . A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
A unit of volume equal to 12 ft × 11 in × 1.5 in, used to measure firewood.
To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
* Tickell
To administer or give out, as in small portions.
* 1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 30:
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, title=Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest
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To distribute cards to the players in a game.
(baseball) To pitch.
To have dealings or business.
* 1838 , , Oliver Twist , ch. 11:
To conduct oneself, to behave.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
(obsolete) To take action; to act.
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book IV:
To trade professionally (followed by in ).
To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
To be concerned with.
* 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 14:
To handle, to manage, to cope.
* 1897 , , Dracula , ch 19:
An act of dealing or sharing.
The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction
* 2014 , Jamie Jackson, "[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/26/angel-di-maria-completes-move-to-manchester-united Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real]", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
* 2009 , The Guardian , Virginia Wallis, 22 Jul 2009:
An agreement between parties; an arrangement
* 2009 , Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times , 20 Jul 2009:
(informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
(informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
(uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
(countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
Made of deal.
* 1913 ,
* 1919 ,
(label) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
* , chapter=1
, title= (label) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
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, title= (label) A business or amorous link or involvement.
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, title= (label) Something one is interested in.
Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
*, II.12:
The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
* Ford
(obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
* Hooker
As nouns the difference between deal and interest
is that deal is (slang) a deal while interest is .As a verb interest is
to engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.deal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at dole.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (act of apportioning or distributing) allotment, apportionment, distribution, doling out]], [[share, sharing, sharing out * (large number or amount or extent) batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, load, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slewDerived terms
* (indefinite quantity) a great deal, a good deal, big deal, real dealEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
- Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
- "Away, proud woman!" said the Lady; "who ever knew so well as thou to deal the deepest wounds under the pretence of kindness and courtesy?"
- I was dealt four aces.
- The cards were shuffled and dealt by the croupier.
- The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
- Mr. Brownlow contrived to state his case; observing that, in the surprise of the moment, he had run after the boy because he saw him running away; and expressing his hope that, if the magistrate should believe him, although not actually the thief, to be connected with thieves; he would deal as leniently with him as justice would allow.
- In Deheubarth'' that now South-wales is hight, / What time king ''Ryence raign'd, and dealed right [...].
- Wel said syr Uwayne go on your waye, and lete me dele .
- She deals in gold.
- This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
- Science, it cannot be too often repeated, deals with tangible phenomena.
- Then there was the sound of a struggle, and I knew that the attendants were dealing with him.
- I can't deal with this.
Synonyms
* (distribute among a number of recipients) apportion, divvy up, share, share out, portion out * (administer in portions) administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, hand out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out * * pitch, throw * (have dealings with) * (trade) sell, trade, bargain * sell * (be concerned with) *Derived terms
* deal with * dealer * dealyNoun
(en noun)- I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
- I believe it's your deal .
- We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
- The deal , which overtakes the £50m paid to Liverpool by Chelsea for Fernando Torres in January 2011 as the highest paid by a British club, takes United’s summer spend to £130.7m, following the £27m spent on Luke Shaw, the £28m for Ander Herrera and £16m for Marcos Rojo.
- You also have to look at the kind of mortgage deals available to you and whether you will be able to trade up to the kind of property you are looking for.
- California lawmakers, their state broke and its credit rating shot, finally sealed the deal with the governor Monday night on a plan to close a $26 billion budget gap.
- He made a deal with the devil.
- "''I've never killed anybody before. I don't see what's the big deal ."
- Line spoken by character played by John Travolta in the movie Broken Arrow .
- What's the deal ?
- The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
Synonyms
* (cards held in a card game by a player at any given time) hand * (instance of buying or selling) business deal, sale, trade, transaction * (a beneficial transaction) steal, bargain * (agreement between parties fixing obligations of each) contract, pactDerived terms
* no deal * package deal * raw deal * sweetheart dealEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), cognate with (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* * (plank of softwood)Adjective
(-)- A plain deal table
- She glanced round the kitchen. It was small and curious to her, with its glittering kissing-bunch, its evergreens behind the pictures, its wooden chairs and little deal table.
- Through the open door you see a red-tiled floor, a large wooden bed, and on a deal table a ewer and a basin.
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*interest
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Alternative forms
* enterest * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
Standing orders, passage=Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to carry out a meta-analysis. This is a technique that combines diverse studies in a statistically meaningful way.}}
Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
- How can this infinite beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?
Synonyms
* (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed) cost of moneyDerived terms
(Financial terms) * accrued interest * beneficial interest * capitalized interest * carried interest * compound interest * consumer interest * controlling interest * defered interest bond * earnings before interest and taxes * exact interest * imputed interest * indication of interest * insurable interest * interest-bearing * interest cover * interest expense * interest rate * interest-sensitive * minority interest * nominee interest * open interest * ordinary interest * pooling of interest * prepaid interest * security interest * short interest * simple interest * true interest cost * unearned interest (Non-financial terms) * by-interest * conflict of interest * future interest * human interest * interest group * legal interest * life interest * love interest * marine interest * place of interest * public interest * royalty interest * self-interest * special interest * terminable interest * undivided interest * vested interest * working interestVerb
(en verb)- It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
- Action films don't really interest me.
- Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
- The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.