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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
Middle English dekke, from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”). Cognate with German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Also related with English thatch, thack.
Noun[edit]
deck (plural decks)
- 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.
- 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.
- (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.
- Synonym: library
- 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.
- 2011, David Kroenke, Donald Nilson, Office 365 in Business
- (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
- 1655, Philip Massinger, The Guardian, Act III, scene iii:
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from deck (noun)
Translations[edit]
any flat surface walked on
pack of playing cards
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floorlike covering on a ship
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Verb[edit]
deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)
- (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
- (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
- Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?
- (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result.
Translations[edit]
(slang) to knock someone to the floor with a single punch
Etymology 2[edit]
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[edit]
deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)
- (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, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3 Act III, Scene ii:
- (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
- 1700, John Dryden (tr.), “The Flower and the Leaf”:
- (now the dew with spangles decked the ground)
- 1700, John Dryden (tr.), “The Flower and the Leaf”:
- 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[edit]
- See deck out
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
dress up — see dress up
decorate — see decorate
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
deck
- Imperative singular of decken.
- (colloquial) First-person singular present of decken.
Italian[edit]
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Noun[edit]
deck m (invariable)
Luxembourgish[edit]
Verb[edit]
deck
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