Deal vs. Ideal

Dealnoun

(obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.

Dealnoun

(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).

Dealnoun

An act of dealing or sharing out.

Dealnoun

The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.

Dealnoun

A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction

Dealnoun

Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.

Dealnoun

An agreement between parties; an arrangement

Dealnoun

(informal) A situation, occasion, or event.

Dealnoun

(informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.

Dealnoun

(uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)

Dealnoun

(countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)

Dealnoun

A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.

Dealverb

(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.

Dealverb

(transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.

Dealverb

(ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.

Dealverb

(baseball) To pitch.

Dealverb

(intransitive) To have dealings or business.

Dealverb

(intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.

Dealverb

To take action; to act.

Dealverb

(intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).

Dealverb

(transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.

Dealverb

(intransitive) To be concerned with.

Dealverb

(intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.

Dealadjective

Made of deal.

Dealnoun

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

Dealnoun

The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.

Dealnoun

Distribution; apportionment.

Dealnoun

An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; - applied to stock speculations and political bargains.

Dealnoun

The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

Dealnoun

Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.

Dealverb

To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; - sometimes with out.

Dealverb

Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.

Dealverb

To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.

Dealverb

To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.

Dealverb

To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; - followed by between or with.

Dealverb

To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.

Dealverb

To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.

Dealnoun

a particular instance of buying or selling;

Dealnoun

an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each;

Dealnoun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

Dealnoun

a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)

Dealnoun

wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)

Dealnoun

the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time;

Dealnoun

the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement);

Dealnoun

the act of distributing playing cards;

Dealnoun

the act of apportioning or distributing something;

Dealverb

deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression;

Dealverb

take action with respect to (someone or something);

Dealverb

take into consideration for exemplifying purposes;

Dealverb

come to terms or deal successfully with;

Dealverb

administer or bestow, as in small portions;

Dealverb

do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood;

Dealverb

be in charge of, act on, or dispose of;

Dealverb

behave in a certain way towards others;

Dealverb

distribute to the players in a game;

Dealverb

direct the course of; manage or control;

Dealverb

give out as one's portion or share

Dealverb

give (a specific card) to a player;

Dealverb

sell;

Dealadjective

made of fir or pine;

Idealadjective

Optimal; being the best possibility.

Idealadjective

Perfect, flawless, having no defects.

Idealadjective

Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.

Idealadjective

Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.

Idealadjective

Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.

Idealadjective

(mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.

Idealnoun

A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.

Idealnoun

A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.

Idealnoun

A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).

Idealnoun

(set theory) A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.

Idealnoun

A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.

Idealadjective

Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

Idealadjective

Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.

Idealadjective

Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.

Idealadjective

Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.

Idealadjective

Imaginary.

Idealnoun

A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.

Idealnoun

the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain

Idealnoun

model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

Idealadjective

conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal

Idealadjective

constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception;

Idealadjective

of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas

Idealadjective

satisfying one's conception of what is perfect; most suitable

Idealadjective

existing only in the imagination; desirable or perfect but not likely to become a reality

Idealadjective

representing an abstract or hypothetical optimum

Idealnoun

a person or thing regarded as perfect

Idealnoun

a standard or principle to be aimed at