Dill vs. Deal — What's the Difference?

Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae. It is the only species in the genus Anethum.

To give out in shares or portions; apportion

An aromatic herb (Anethum graveolens) in the parsley family, native to Eurasia, having finely dissected leaves and small yellow flowers clustered in umbels.

To distribute (playing cards) among players.

The leaves or seeds of this plant, used as a seasoning.

To give (a specific card) to a player while so distributing.

Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.

To sell

A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring.

To administer; deliver

A fool.

To be occupied or concerned

To cook or flavor with dill

To behave in a specified way toward another or others; have transactions

To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

To take action with respect to someone or something

An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; - called also dillseed.

(Informal) To cope

To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

To do business; trade

Aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning

(Games) To distribute playing cards.

Aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning

(Slang) To buy and sell drugs, especially illegally.

(Baseball) To throw a pitch.

The act or a round of apportioning or distributing.

Distribution of playing cards.

The cards so distributed; a hand.

The right or turn of a player to distribute the cards.

The playing of one hand.

An indefinite quantity, extent, or degree

An agreement, especially one that is mutually beneficial.

A business transaction

A legal contract

(Informal) A sale favorable especially to the buyer; a bargain.

(Informal) Treatment received

(Informal) The situation or background information regarding something

A fir or pine board cut to standard dimensions.

Such boards or planks considered as a group.

Fir or pine wood.

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

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

An act of dealing or sharing out.

(card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.

A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.

(in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.

An agreement between parties; an arrangement.

(informal) A situation, occasion, or event.

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

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

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

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

(a) Male genitalia.

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

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

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

(transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.

(baseball) To pitch.

(intransitive) To have dealings or business.

(intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.

To take action; to act.

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

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

(intransitive) To be concerned with.

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

Made of deal.

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.

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

Distribution; apportionment.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A particular instance of buying or selling;

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

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

A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)

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

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

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

The act of distributing playing cards;

The act of apportioning or distributing something;

Deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression;

Take action with respect to (someone or something);

Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes;

Come to terms or deal successfully with;

Administer or bestow, as in small portions;

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

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

Behave in a certain way towards others;

Distribute to the players in a game;

Direct the course of; manage or control;

Give out as one's portion or share

Give (a specific card) to a player;

Sell;

Made of fir or pine;