Deed vs Wool - What's the difference?
deed | wool |
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.
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
* 2006 , Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece , page 692
A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
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Anything with a texture like that of wool.
* 1975 , Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet , page 223
A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
* Shakespeare
(British, NZ) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
As a noun deed
is an action or act; something that is done.As a verb deed
is (informal) to transfer real property by deed.As a proper noun wool is
a village in dorset, england.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.
wool
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
- The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation
- wool of bat and tongue of dog