changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"
the act of apportioning or distributing something; "the captain was entrusted with the deal of provisions"
the act of distributing playing cards; "the deal was passed around the table clockwise"
a particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal"
the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement); "he got a good deal on his car"
a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes"
sell; "deal hashish"
distribute to the players in a game; "Who's dealing?"
give (a specific card) to a player; "He dealt me the Queen of Spades"
take action with respect to (someone or something); "How are we going to deal with this problem?"; "The teacher knew how to deal with these lazy students"
behave in a certain way towards others; "He deals fairly with his employees"
(physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
(mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity; "parity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data"
(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"
a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
make a division or separation
discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy); "a syncretism of material and immaterial theories"
occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; "recovery was synchronous with therapy"- Jour.A.M.A.; "a synchronous set of clocks"; "the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight"; "synchronous oscillations"
(digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions