What's the difference between feast and feat?

Feast


Definition:

  • (n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
  • (n.) A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.
  • (n.) That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.
  • (n.) To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
  • (n.) To be highly gratified or delighted.
  • (v. t.) To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
  • (v. t.) To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
  • (2) If eating is solely about nourishment then the feast in which the vast majority of us will participate on 25 December is equally an outrage.
  • (3) Perhaps the number of complaints an ombudsman receives is a function of the number of ambulance-chasing claims companies that are able to feast on a 25% – 40% cut of the winnings.
  • (4) A spectacular fall from grace on the pitch – from first to seventh, playing dour football that is anathema to fans who feasted on success throughout the Ferguson era – will also lead to renewed scrutiny of the club's controversial US owners, the Glazer family , away from it.
  • (5) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
  • (6) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
  • (7) After saying his prayer, Sadaullah, was entering the room where the other guests had already taken their place for the evening feast when the missile hit.
  • (8) Another certifier, Mohamed El-Mouelhy, said the significance of the feast day was akin to that of Christmas for Christians.
  • (9) The Great Beauty is intentionally overwhelming; its feast of riches borderline nauseating.
  • (10) His offices released statements about meetings with cabinet ministers to discuss issues such as the availability of basic food items during Ramadan when Muslims feast on food after a day of dawn-to-dusk fasting.
  • (11) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
  • (12) The €31.5bn aid tranche has become "a bit of a moveable feast", Helena says.
  • (13) Graham Linehan , when we meet as the others grab sandwiches, is flustered from traffic but more so, I suspect, from, at the moment, being the ghost at the feast.
  • (14) A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621.
  • (15) Let other 2014 commemorations of war dwell on reconciliation or shrink from triumphalism: next summer, visitors to Bannockburn's Live will enjoy a feast of martial entertainments, including, says Visit Scotland , "a spectacular re-enactment of this iconic battle close to the original site".
  • (16) "The text that is currently on the table contains 200 pages with a feast of alternatives and a forest of square brackets," he said.
  • (17) The wood-clad dining room serves four-course feasts and a decent children's menu (with free food for under-fours).
  • (18) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
  • (19) Three-course gourmet vegetarian feasts include local organic wines.
  • (20) It was somehow fitting that the day the US and Cuba announced the end of decades of hostilities was also the feast of San Lazaro, or St Lazarus – the biblical figure who rose from the dead.

Feat


Definition:

  • (n.) An act; a deed; an exploit.
  • (n.) A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
  • (v. t.) To form; to fashion.
  • (n.) Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (2) Ant and Dec were also double winners, repeating their feat of last year, winning best entertainment programme and best entertainment performance for their ITV show, Saturday Night Takeaway.
  • (3) But the fact Yellen is even being considered is a feat in itself as central banking is still an old boy’s club, Cooper adds: The new Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney may have assuaged feminists with his choice of Jane Austen for the ten pound note, but his Monetary Policy Committee is female free.
  • (4) A year later he repeats the feat in a hot air balloon.
  • (5) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
  • (6) will.i.am feat britney spears - Scream & Shout on MUZU.TV .
  • (7) Mexico were indebted to a remarkable goalkeeping display when they shared the points with Brazil, and though Guillermo Ochoa’s stock has risen dramatically since that game, he might not be able to repeat the feat twice in a row.
  • (8) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
  • (9) His record-breaking feat of scoring in 11 consecutive matches is the jewel in what will surely be Leicester’s Premier League crown.
  • (10) Anyone care to suggest how such a cognitive feat might be achieved, other than advising Wenger to feed his team mind-altering drugs?
  • (11) Track listing: What Goes Boom Greens and Blues Indie Cindy Bagboy Magdalena 318 Silver Snail Blue Eyed Hexe Ring the Bell Another Toe in the Ocean Andro Queen Snakes Jaime Bravo Track listing for Live in the USA (feat Lenchantin on bass): Bone Machine Hey Ana Magdalena 318 Snakes Indie Cindy I’ve Been Tired Head On The Sad Punk Distance Equals Rate Times Time Something Against You Isla de Encanta Planet of Sound Reading this on mobile?
  • (12) Can he make it four from four (equalling the feat of Colombian winger James Rodriguez, who is on a similar mission right now)?
  • (13) Whereas near superhuman feats by ordinary individuals caught in life-threatening situations have been reported, variations of great magnitude are unlikely in sport.
  • (14) The chancellor comes to the despatch box, his face stern and manner sober, to present a vision of the economic and fiscal future comprised of nothing more solid than a series of heroic assumptions, hypothetical figures and feats of creative accountancy – all anchored in the shifting, hopeful sands of forecast and projection.
  • (15) If no contestant achieves the feat, Vote Leave is guaranteeing to pay £50,000 to the person who gets the most consecutive forecasts correct.
  • (16) The purpose of this publication is to describe a method by which this feat has been achieved in 150 pound ungulates undergoing prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass.
  • (17) For Trump, America will be great again when it is responsible to no one, when it can bend neighbors to its will through magic feats of negotiation, when its military abandons all remaining ethical standards, when it defers its problems to a messianic strongman.
  • (18) The structure is renowned across the world as an incredible feat of engineering so it was a fitting choice for a ground-breaking new banknote."
  • (19) The company said it will attempt a second feat: landing the booster on a floating platform at sea, part of a quest to reuse rockets and lower the cost of spaceshots.
  • (20) In 1978 she scored her first US chart-topping single, with a version of Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park, and repeated the feat with Hot Stuff, Bad Girls and No More Tears (Enough Is Enough).