deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
homophone: deque
Forms: form: decks
Etymology: 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.
Senses: glosses: Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
examples: text: Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel
text: to swab the deck
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
related: word: forecastle
word: aftcastle
word: aftercastle
glosses: 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.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A pack or set of playing cards.
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: library
glosses: A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
examples: text: If there's a strapline or subdeck, write these after the main deck and don't use the same words.
ref: 2005, Richard Keeble, Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction, page 114:
topics: journalism
media
hypernyms: headline
coordinate_terms: strapline
glosses: A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
examples: text: Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it.
ref: 2011, David Kroenke, Donald Nilson, Office 365 in Business:
glosses: Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
examples: text: The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language.
ref: 2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
examples: text: A paper-blurrer, who on all occasions, / For all times, and all season, hath such trinkets / Ready in the deck
ref: 1655, Philip Massinger, The Guardian, act III, scene iii:
glosses: A heap or store.
examples: text: Defendant placed the decks in his pocket and, after driving out of the city, gave one to Shore. While still in the car, Shore snorted half of the deck. When they returned to defendant's home, defendant handed Shore a second deck of heroin.
ref: 2007, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, volume 188:
glosses: A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
examples: text: We hit the deck as bullets began to fly.
text: Williams fell to the deck. Following a lengthy check, he was replaced by Connor Roberts due to a suspected concussion - a scenario well explained by the stadium's staff over the PA system.
ref: 2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:
glosses: The floor.
examples: text: Wily carp are quickly put on their guard by tight lines cutting through the water, so another common measure is to use a back lead to keep the line on the deck.
ref: 2012, Peter Kaminsky, Greg Schwipps, “Part IV: Now You're Fishing”, in Fishing for Dummies, UK edition, Adapted by Dominic Garnett, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., page 298:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The bottom of a water body.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The stage.
examples: text: The general operating procedure for recording a tape is basically the same as for playing it. After you insert the tape in the deck, you fast forward it to the end and then completely rewind it.
ref: 1985, Byte, volume 10, page 111:
glosses: Ellipsis of tape deck.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
meronyms: card
glosses: The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from deck (noun)
word: abovedeck
sense: Terms derived from deck (noun)
word: afterdeck
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word: all hands on deck
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word: all hands to the deck
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word: bell deck
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word: belowdecks
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word: below decks
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word: case the deck
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word: cassette deck
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word: cigarette deck
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word: clear the decks
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word: cloud deck
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word: cold deck
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word: combi deck
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word: cyberdeck
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word: deck angle
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word: deck boat
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word: deck box
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word: deck bridge
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word: deckbuilding
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word: deck chair
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word: deck-chair
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word: decker
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word: deck floor
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word: deckful
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word: deck grip
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word: deckhand
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word: deck hand
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word: deckhead
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word: deck hook
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word: deckhouse
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word: deckless
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word: decklid
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word: decklike
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word: decklist
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word: deckload
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word: deckman
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word: deck of cards
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word: deck passage
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word: deck roof
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word: deckscrub
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word: deck shoe
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word: deck shuffleboard
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word: deckside
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word: deck tennis
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word: decktop
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word: deckward
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word: deckwise
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word: deck-wise
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word: diaper deck
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word: double-deck
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word: double-decker
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word: few cards short of a full deck
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word: few cards shy of a full deck
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word: flight deck
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word: flush deck
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word: flush-deck
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word: forecastle deck
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word: foredeck
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word: forward deck
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word: freeboard deck
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word: French deck
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word: gun deck
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word: hard deck
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word: helideck
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word: hit the deck
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word: holodeck
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word: hurricane deck
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word: ingredient deck
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word: lower deck
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word: main deck
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word: main-deck
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word: maindeck
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word: messdeck
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word: multideck
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word: net deck
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word: net-deck
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word: observation deck
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word: on deck
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word: on deck circle
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word: one card short of a full deck
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word: one card shy of a full deck
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word: on the deck
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word: orlop deck
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word: pec deck
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word: pin deck
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word: pitch deck
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word: play with a full deck
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word: poop deck
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word: poopdeck
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word: promenade deck
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word: quarter deck
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word: quarter-deck
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word: quarterdeck
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word: rear deck
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word: rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
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word: redeck
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word: roof deck
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word: shelter deck
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word: shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
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word: skateboard deck
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word: slide deck
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word: spar deck
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word: spraydeck
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word: stack the deck
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word: stern deck
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word: stream deck
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word: subdeck
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word: sundeck
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word: sun deck
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word: sweep the deck
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word: tape deck
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word: top deck
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word: topdeck
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word: turret deck
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word: turtle-deck
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word: 'tween-decks
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word: underdeck
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word: upper deck
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word: upper decker
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word: void deck
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word: water deck
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word: weather deck
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word: well deck