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deck

Pronunciation: /ˈdɛk/

The English word “deck” has 19 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  2. 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.
  3. A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
  4. A pack or set of playing cards.
  5. A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
  6. A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
  7. A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
  8. A heap or store.
  9. A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
  10. The floor.
  11. The bottom of a water body.
  12. The stage.
  13. The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.

verb

  1. To furnish with a deck.
  2. To knock (someone) to the floor, especially with a single punch.
  3. To cause (a player) to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
  4. To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
  5. To decorate (something).
  6. To cover; to overspread.

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.

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