Deed vs Event - What's the difference?
deed | event | Related terms |
An action or act; something that is done.
* Bible, Genesis xliv. 15
A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
* Spenser
* Dryden
Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
(legal) A legal contract showing bond.
(informal) To transfer real property by deed.
An occurrence; something that happens.
* Macaulay
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
*, II.3.3:
* 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
* Young
(physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
* Shakespeare
(lb) An episode of severe health conditions.
Deed is a related term of event.
As nouns the difference between deed and event
is that deed is an action or act; something that is done while event is blowhole (of cetaceans).As a verb deed
is (informal) to transfer real property by deed.deed
English
Noun
(en noun)- And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?
- knightly deeds
- whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn
- I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed .
- I inherited the deed to the house.
Synonyms
* (action) act, actionDerived terms
* indeedVerb
(en verb)- He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.
event
English
(wikipedia event)Noun
(en noun)- the events of his early years
- hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].
- Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event .
- dark doubts between the promise and event
- In the event , he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
- If is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: , , and .
- Leave we him to his events .