Deems vs Feel - What's the difference?
deems | feel |
(deem)
(obsolete) To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.
(obsolete) To adjudge; decree.
(obsolete) To dispense (justice); administer (law).
(ambitransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose.
* Emerson
To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.
To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
(lb) To use the sense of touch.
# To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
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#(lb) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
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#(lb) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
#(lb) To search by sense of touch.
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(lb) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
#(lb) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
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#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:Teach me to feel another's woe.
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#*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
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, title= #(lb) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Garlandswhich I feel / I am not worthy yet to wear.
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, passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
#(lb) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
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#*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
#*:[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:who feel for all mankind
(lb) To be or become aware of.
(lb) To experience the consequences of.
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(lb) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
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To understand.
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A quality of an object experienced by touch.
A vague mental impression.
An act of fondling.
A vague understanding
An intuitive ability
Alternative form of feeling
As verbs the difference between deems and feel
is that deems is third-person singular of deem while feel is To use the sense of touch.As a noun feel is
a quality of an object experienced by touch.As a pronoun feel is
alternative form of lang=en.As an adjective feel is
alternative form of lang=en.As an adverb feel is
alternative form of lang=en.deems
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----deem
English
Verb
(en verb)- And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before?
- She deemed his efforts insufficient.
Synonyms
* judge * consider; see alsoDerived terms
* * * * * *Anagrams
* * * ----feel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) felen, from (etyl) .Verb
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
Usage notes
* Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used in US English. * (term) is sometimes used after (feel) in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, (bad). * Some users use (badly) when referring to an emotional state, and (bad) when referring to a more physical or medical state. * Adjectives to which "feel" is often applied as a copula: free, cold, cool, warm, hot, young, old, good, great, fine, happy, glad, satisfied, excited, bad, depressed, unhappy, sad, blue, sorry, smart, stupid, loved, appreciated, accepted, rejected, lonely, isolated, insulted, offended, slighted, cheated, shy, refreshed, tired, exhausted, calm, relaxed, angry, annoyed, frustrated, anxious, worried, jealous, proud, confident, safe, grateful, uncomfortable, unsafe, insecure, desperate, guilty, ashamed, disappointed, dirty, odd, strange, ill, sick.Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Noun
(en noun)- Bark has a rough feel .
- You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
- She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
- I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
- She has a feel for music.
- I know that feel.