communicating vs deed

communicating and deed both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
communicating	Yes	No	No	No
deed	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, deed is a hypernym of communicating; that is, deed is a word with a broader meaning than communicating:

communicating: the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
deed: something that people do or cause to happen

Other hypernyms of communicating include act, human action, human activity.

communicating (noun)	deed (noun)
the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information	something that people do or cause to happen
	a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it