deck
IPA: dˈɛk
noun
- Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
- (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
- (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
- (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
- A set of slides for a presentation.
- (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
- (obsolete) A heap or store.
- (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
- (colloquial) The floor.
- (theater) The stage.
- Short for tape deck. [tape recorder]
verb
- (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
- (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
- (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
- (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
- (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
- (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
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Examples of "deck" in Sentences
- That part of the ship is called the deck.
- The grey area indicates the deck of the boat.
- Given the expense of discovery, the deck is stacked.
- Poop Deck is the deck at the furthest back of a ship.
- Her deck was thick and the bulkheads inside the ship were thick.
- The ships were also to have had a forecastle deck that was thick.
- On the same boat, a foresail tack is clipped to the deck and forestay.
- All of the vital parts of the ship were placed below the protective deck.
- The explosion tore a hole in the deck almost the complete width of the ship.
- The boat is sinking, and the players and the owners are hosing down the deck.
- Forecastle refers to the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast.
- But please, do go on whining about how stacked the popular media deck is against socially liberal causes.
- Bottom of the deck is a slavery code and the MSM has already fallen for it by not questioning the use of that phrase.
- The A380's upper passenger deck is almost as wide as the main deck of a 747, and the lower one is nineteen inches wider.
- Maybe there really has been a dramatic decline in prejudice, and the deck is less stacked against black folks than it previously appeared.
- And, sure enough, there on the deck is a guy is a brilliant, somewhat unworldly professor, busily sketching a design for a new lifeboat as the smoke billows in larger and larger clouds.
- I. ii.155 (14,6) [deck'd the sea] _To deck the sea_, if explained, to honour, adorn, or dignify, is indeed ridiculous, but the original import of the verb _deck_ is, _to cover_; so in some parts they yet say _deck the table_.
- It’s just a card with a mechanic that encourages people to play with Goblins – the actual idea of the Goblin deck is yours and yours alone, even if it turns out that everyone else in the world had the exact same idea when they looked at the card.
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