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As a noun feat

is a relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

As an adjective feat

is (archaic) dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.

As a verb feat

is (obsolete) to form; to fashion.

As a proper noun fate is

any one of the fates.

feat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2013 , date=January 22 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.}}

    Derived terms

    * no small feat * no mean feat

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty
  • * Shakespeare
  • Never master had a page so feat .
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
  • And look how well my garments sit upon me — / Much feater than before.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To the more mature, / A glass that feated them.

    Anagrams

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    fate

    English

    (wikipedia fate)

    Noun

  • The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  • *
  • Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  • Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  • (lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
  • Synonyms

    * destiny * doom * fortune * kismet * lot * necessity * orlay * predestination * wyrd

    Antonyms

    * choice * free will * freedom

    Derived terms

    * fatal * fatalism * fatality * tempt fate

    See also

    * determinism * indeterminism

    Verb

    (fat)
  • To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
  • The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
  • * 2011 , James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
  • At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

    Usage notes

    * In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.

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