Deed vs Ploy - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between deed and ploy

is that deed is an action or act; something that is done while ploy is a tactic, strategy, or gimmick.

is that deed is to transfer real property by deed while ploy is to form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

(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.

* (action) act, action

* indeed

(en verb)

(informal) To transfer real property by deed.

He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.

(en noun)

A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.

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(UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.

Probably abbreviated from deploy.

(en verb)

(military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

(Wilhelm)

* deploy (Webster 1913)

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