deck.
Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
Meaning & usage
Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
to swab the deck
A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
A pack or set of playing cards.
A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
A heap or store.
A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
The floor.
We hit the deck as bullets began to fly.
The bottom of a water body.
The stage.
Ellipsis of tape deck.
The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.
To furnish with a deck.
to deck a vessel
To knock (someone) to the floor, especially with a single punch.
Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?
To cause (a player) to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.
To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
To decorate (something).
To cover; to overspread.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dekken, from Middle Dutch dekken (“to cover”), from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną (“to roof; cover”).
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