Works vs Deed - What's the difference?
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(plurale tantum) A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
(plurale tantum) A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
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, title= Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
(plurale tantum) Acts associated with moral or religious standing.
(work)
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 nouns the difference between works and deed
is that works is plural of lang=en while deed is an action or act; something that is done.As verbs the difference between works and deed
is that works is third-person singular of work while deed is to transfer real property by deed.works
English
(wikipedia works)Noun
(head)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
Derived terms
* brassworks * bronzeworks * clayworks * copperworks * freezing works * good works * ironworks * metalworks * skunkworks * steelworks * waterworksVerb
(head)See also
* in the works * the whole nine yards * the whole shebangStatistics
*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.