deck

See also: Deck and déck

English

A ship with deck numbered 8.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛk/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

Middle English dekke, from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”). Cognate with German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Also related with English thatch, thack.

Noun

deck (plural decks)

  1. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  2. (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.
    to swab the deck
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
      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.
  3. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
  4. (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
  5. (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
    Synonym: library
  6. A set of slides for a presentation.
    • 2011, David Kroenke, Donald Nilson, Office 365 in Business
      Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it.
  7. (obsolete) A heap or store.
    • 1655, Philip Massinger, The Guardian, Act III, scene iii:
      A paper-blurrer, who on all occasions, / For all times, and all season, hath such trinkets / Ready in the deck
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

  1. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  2. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
    Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?
  3. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dekken, from Middle Dutch dekken (“to cover”), from Old Dutch theckon, *thecken, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną (“to roof; cover”). More at thatch.

Verb

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

  1. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance
  2. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
  3. To cover; to overspread.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
      Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, / Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers
Usage notes
Derived terms
Translations

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dɛk]

Verb

deck

  1. Imperative singular of decken.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of decken.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English deck.

Noun

deck m (invariable)

  1. tape deck

Luxembourgish

Verb

deck

  1. second-person singular imperative of decken
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