deck

See also: Deck and déck

English

A ship with deck numbered 8.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛk/

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• 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

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0147:

     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

Terms derived from deck (noun)

• abovedeck
• afterdeck
• all hands on deck
• bell deck
• below decks
• 'tween-decks
• clear the decks
• cloud deck
• cold deck
• combi deck
• combo deck
• deck chair
• deckhead
• deck hook
• deckhouse
• decklid
• deckman
• deck roof
• deckside
• decktop
• deckward
• double-decker
• flight deck
• foredeck
• forward deck

• French deck
• hit the deck
• lower deck
• observation deck
• on deck
• on deck circle
• one card shy of a full deck
• orlop deck
• pec deck
• play with a full deck
• poopdeck
• quarterdeck
• rear deck
• redeck
• skateboard deck
• spar deck
• stern deck
• sundeck
• tape deck
• top deck
• turret deck
• underdeck
• weather deck
• well deck

Translations

any flat surface walked on

• Catalan: terra (ca) m
• Finnish: tasanne (fi)
• Hebrew: מרפסת‎‎ (he) f (mirpéset)
• Maori: raho, rahoraho, papa

• Russian: насти́л (ru) f (nastíl)
• Scottish Gaelic: deic f
• Spanish: piso (es) m, plataforma (es) f, balcón (es) m, terraza (es) f

pack of playing cards

• Bulgarian: тесте (bg) n (teste), колода f (koloda)
• Catalan: baralla (ca) f
• Dutch: spel kaarten n
• Esperanto: ludkartaro
• Estonian: kaardipakk
• Finnish: korttipakka (fi), pakka (fi)
• French: jeu de cartes (fr)
• German: Kartenstapel m, Kartenspiel (de) n
• Greek: τράπουλα (el) f (trápoula)
• Hebrew: חפיסת קלפים‎‎ f (khafisát-klafím)
• Italian: mazzo (it) m
• Latin: fasciculus m
• Lithuanian: malka (lt) f, kaladė f
• Macedonian: шпил m (špil)

• Maori: putu, putu kāri, pūranga
• Navajo: dáʼákaʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stokk (no) m, kortstokk (no) m, kortleik (no) m

  Nynorsk: stokk m, kortleik m, kortstokk m

• Polish: talia (pl) f
• Portuguese: baralho (pt) m
• Russian: коло́да (ru) f (kolóda)
• Spanish: baraja (es) f
• Swedish: kortlek (sv) c, lek (sv) c, talong (sv) c
• Thai: สำรับ (th) (sǎm-ráp)
• Turkish: deste (tr)
• Vietnamese: cỗ bài

floorlike covering on a ship

• Arabic: ظَهْر‎‎ (ar) m (ẓahr), سَطْح‎‎ m (saṭḥ)
• Armenian: տախտակամած (hy) (taxtakamac)
• Bulgarian: палуба f (paluba)
• Catalan: coberta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甲板 (zh) (jiǎbǎn)

• Czech: paluba (cs) f
• Danish: dæk (da) n
• Dutch: dek (nl) n
• Esperanto: ferdeko (eo)
• Estonian: laevalagi
• Finnish: kansi (fi), täkki (fi)
• French: pont (fr) m
• Georgian: ერდო (erdo)
• German: Deck (de) n
• Greek: κατάστρωμα (el) n (katástroma), κουβέρτα (el) f (kouvérta)

  Ancient Greek: στέγη f (stégē)

• Hebrew: סיפון‎‎ (he) m (sipún)
• Ido: ferdeko (io)
• Italian: ponte (it) m

• Japanese: デッキ (dekki), 甲板 (ja) (かんぱん, kanpan)
• Korean: 갑판 (gappan)
• Latin: stega f
• Macedonian: палуба f (páluba)
• Maori: raho, rahoraho, papatakahi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dekk n

  Nynorsk: dekk n

• Portuguese: convés (pt) m, deque (pt) m, deck (pt) m
• Russian: па́луба (ru) f (páluba)
• Scottish Gaelic: deic f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏луба f

  Roman: pȁluba (sh) f

• Spanish: cubierta (es) f
• Swedish: däck (sv) c
• Thai: ดาดฟ้า (dàat-fáa)
• Turkish: güverte (tr)
• Welsh: bwrdd llong m, byrddau llongau m pl

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} שקופיות‎‎ f pl (shkufiót)

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

to furnish with a deck, as a vessel

• Finnish: kattaa (fi)

(slang) to knock someone to the floor with a single punch

• Finnish: kaataa (fi)
• Japanese: 殴り倒す (なぐりたおす, naguritaosu)

• Swedish: däcka (sv)
• Turkish: yere sermek (tr)

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
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3 Act III, Scene ii:

     And deck my body in gay ornaments, / And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.

   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Job 40:10:

     Decke thy selfe now with Maiestie, and excellencie, and aray thy selfe with glory, and beautie.

   • 1919, William Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 39

     They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it. The false emphasis with which they try to deck their worthless thoughts blunts their susceptibilities.

2. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
   • 1700, John Dryden (tr.), “The Flower and the Leaf”:

     (now the dew with spangles decked the ground)

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

• See deck out

Derived terms

• bedeck

Translations

dress up — see dress up

decorate — see decorate

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɛk]

Verb

deck

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

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English deck.

Noun

deck m (invariable)

1. tape deck

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Luxembourgish

Verb

deck

1. second-person singular imperative of decken