Weeded vs Deeded - What's the difference?
weeded | deeded |
(weed)
A plant.
# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= # (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
# Short for duckweed.
# Underbrush; low shrubs.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1809-1892)
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
# Marijuana.
# Tobacco.
# A cigar.
A horse unfit to breed from.
A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
* 1599 ,
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel
* Milton
(wee)
(deed)
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.
As verbs the difference between weeded and deeded
is that weeded is (weed) while deeded is (deed).weeded
English
Verb
(head)weed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
- one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
- A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweedSee also
* grow like a weed * weedsEtymology 2
From (etyl) .See also
* weed outEtymology 3
From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.Noun
(en noun)- DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
- And then to Leonato's we will go.
- CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
- Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
- These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
- He wore a weed on his hat.
- In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.
Etymology 4
From the verb wee.Verb
(head)References
* *deeded
English
Verb
(head)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.