Sell vs. Deal — What's the Difference?

To exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent

To give out in shares or portions; apportion

To offer or have available for sale

To distribute (playing cards) among players.

To give up or surrender in exchange for a price or reward

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

To be purchased in (a certain quantity); achieve sales of

To sell

To bring about or encourage sales of; promote

To administer; deliver

To cause to be accepted; advocate successfully

To be occupied or concerned

To persuade (another) to recognize the worth or desirability of something

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

To exchange ownership for money or its equivalent; engage in selling

To take action with respect to someone or something

To be sold or be on sale

(Informal) To cope

To attract prospective buyers; be popular on the market

To do business; trade

To be approved of; gain acceptance

(Games) To distribute playing cards.

An act or instance of selling

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

Something that sells or gains acceptance in a particular way

(Baseball) To throw a pitch.

(Slang) A deception; a hoax.

The act or a round of apportioning or distributing.

To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

Distribution of playing cards.

(ergative) To be sold.

The cards so distributed; a hand.

To promote a product or service.

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

To promote a particular viewpoint.

The playing of one hand.

To betray for money or other things.

An indefinite quantity, extent, or degree

(slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.

An agreement, especially one that is mutually beneficial.

To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

A business transaction

To work as a prostitute.

A legal contract

An act of selling; sale.

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

The promotion of an idea for acceptance.

(Informal) Treatment received

An easy task.

(Informal) The situation or background information regarding something

An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.

A fir or pine board cut to standard dimensions.

(obsolete) A seat or stool.

Such boards or planks considered as a group.

(archaic) A saddle.

Fir or pine wood.

A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

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

Self.

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

A sill.

An act of dealing or sharing out.

A cell; a house.

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

A saddle for a horse.

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

A throne or lofty seat.

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

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

An agreement between parties; an arrangement.

To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. It is the correlative of buy.

(informal) A situation, occasion, or event.

To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.

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

To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.

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

To practice selling commodities.

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

To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.

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

The activity of persuading someone to buy;

(a) Male genitalia.

Exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent;

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

Be sold at a certain price or in a certain way;

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

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

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

Persuade somebody to accept something;

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

Give up for a price or reward;

(baseball) To pitch.

Deliver to an enemy by treachery;

(intransitive) To have dealings or business.

Be approved of or gain acceptance;

(intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.

Be responsible for the sale of;

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;