| deal | (noun) the act of distributing playing cards | - |
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| (noun) the act of apportioning or distributing something | - |
| (noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, trade |
| (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: bargain |
| (noun) the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) | - |
| (noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: hand |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | - |
| (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: softwood |
| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: consider, look at, take |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: sell, trade |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) distribute cards to the players in a game | - |
| (verb) give (a specific card) to a player | - |
| (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, divvy up, portion out, share |
| (verb) sell (especially of illegal material) | - |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| (verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, conduct |
| (verb) behave in a certain way towards others | - |
| (verb) take action with respect to (someone or something) | - |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, handle, manage |
| ideal | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas | Synonyms: idealistic |
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| (adjective) constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception | - |
| (adjective) conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal | - |
| (noun) the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain | - |
| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
| misdeal | (noun) an incorrect deal | - |
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| (verb) deal cards wrongly | - |
| ordeal | (noun) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence | Synonyms: trial by ordeal |
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| (noun) a severe or trying experience | - |