verb
dealt, deal·ing, deals verb
transitive- To give out in shares or portions; apportion: a critic who deals out as much praise as blame. See Synonyms at distribute.
- Games
a. To distribute (playing cards) among players.
b. To give (a specific card) to a player while so distributing.
- To sell: deal prescriptions; deal cocaine.
- To administer; deliver: dealt him a blow to the stomach.
verb
intransitive- To be occupied or concerned: a book that deals with the Middle Ages.
- To behave in a specified way toward another or others; have transactions: deal honestly with competitors.
- To take action with respect to someone or something: The committee will deal with this complaint.
- Informal To cope: I can't deal with all of this arguing!
- To do business; trade: dealing in diamonds.
- Games To distribute playing cards.
- Slang To buy and sell drugs, especially illegally.
- Baseball To throw a pitch.
noun
- The act or a round of apportioning or distributing.
- Games
a. Distribution of playing cards.
b. The cards so distributed; a hand.
c. The right or turn of a player to distribute the cards.
d. The playing of one hand.
- An indefinite quantity, extent, or degree: has a great deal of experience.
a. An agreement, especially one that is mutually beneficial. See Synonyms at
agreement.
b. A business transaction: struck a deal to buy a car dealership.
c. A legal contract: signed a deal to play for a new team.
- Informal A sale favorable especially to the buyer; a bargain.
- Informal Treatment received: a raw deal; a fair deal.
- Informal The situation or background information regarding something: What's the deal with the new teacher?
Phrasal Verbs: deal in To include (someone) in a card game by dealing cards to that person.To include (someone) in an enterprise or undertaking.
deal out To exclude (someone) from a card game by not giving cards to that person.To exclude (someone) from an enterprise or undertaking.
Origin of deal
Middle English
delen from Old English
dǣlan to divide, share ; see
dail- in Indo-European roots.
noun
a. A fir or pine board cut to standard dimensions.
b. Such boards or planks considered as a group.
- Fir or pine wood.
Origin of deal
Middle English
dele from Middle DutchMiddle Low German
dele plank
Noun (plural deals)
- (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
Origin From Middle English dele, from Old English dǣl (“part, share, portion”), from Proto-Germanic *dailiz (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhAil- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Scots dele (“part, portion”), West Frisian diel (“part, share”), Dutch deel (“part, share, portion”), German Teil (“part, portion, section”), Danish del (“part”), Icelandic deila (“division, contention”), Gothic (dails, “portion”). Related to Old English dāl (“portion”). More at dole.
Verb (third-person singular simple present deals, present participle dealing, simple past and past participle dealt)
- To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
- To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- I was dealt four aces.
- The cards were shuffled and dealt by the croupier.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- She deals in gold.
- To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
- (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- I can't deal with this.
Noun (plural deals)
- (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
- The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
- I believe it's your deal.
- A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction
- We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
- Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement
- He made a deal with the devil.
- (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- "I've never killed anybody before. I don't see what's the big deal."
- Line spoken by character played by John Travolta in the movie Broken Arrow.
- What's the deal?
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
Origin From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian делить (delitʹ).
Noun (plural deals)
- (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
Adjective (not comparable)
- Made of deal.
- A plain deal table
Origin Middle Low German dele, cognate with Old English þille.
