deck-wise

English

Adjective

deck-wise (comparative more deck-wise, superlative most deck-wise)

1. Alternative form of deckwise
   1. Knowledgeable about work on a deck
      • 1997, Miles H. Davidson, Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined, →ISBN, page 29:

        These assertions are followed by a cautionary statement: "Whether strictly true or not the story should be seen as true to the man ... a claim to a sort of natural sagacity, a deck-wise craft, which make up for his lack of formal schooling."

   2. Pertaining to a deck
      • 2013, Michael Schultz, Thomas Kunze, Hartmut Fricke, “Boarding on the critical path of the turnaround”, in Tenth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2013):

        For the evaluation of the boarding progress, the aircraft seat layout from Emirates is used, which is characterized by a clear, deck-wise separation of of premium and economy class: all economy seats are located on the main deck and the premium seats are located on the upper deck.

      • 2016 May 31, Varsha Singh, “Sex-Differences, Handedness, and Lateralization in the Iowa Gambling Task”, in Frontiers in psychology:

        Cards drawn from each of 4 decks of the reward IGT and from each of the decks of punishment IGT served as a variable for deck-wise analysis.

      • 2016, Igor Kavrakov, Guido Morgenthal, “Modelling Techniques for Buffeting Analysis of Long-span Bridges”, in IABSE Symposium Report:

        To cover the unsteady effects the aerodynamic admittance functions […] are introduced to cover the unsteady effects and the deck-wise correlation.

Adverb

deck-wise (comparative more deck-wise, superlative most deck-wise)

1. Alternative form of deckwise
   1. Concerning a deck
      • 1980, Mechanix Illustrated - Volume 76, Issues 620-625, page 96:

        If you want to go all out and live well deck-wise, try pizzazz, the glamour deck shown here.

      • 2010 January 13, Lina Lecaro, “Drummers, Drag-sters and Death Rockers”, in LA Weekly:

        Unfortunately, Lee's turntable man is no AM, and the classic rock, funk, punk and metal sludge didn't offer anything new sonically, drum- or deck-wise (it was like watching a really good practice session with some eye candy thrown in ... rockin' but not revelatory).

      • 2016, J.M. Hartwig, Storm Shot, →ISBN:

        Deck-wise, she appeared well battened down, but on closer inspection, I discovered she was low in the water, sluggish and corkscrewing with the slow ponderous rolling, wallow of a boat with water inside her hull.

   2. Along or toward a deck
      • 1989, E Steiner, Contact bar for the warp stop motion - US Patent 4,854,351:

        By separating an originally rectilinear bar having a constant cross-section in its longitudinal extent into bar portions located deck-wise above each other […] and which fit into each other such to supplement each other to the original shape, whereby the separating is done preferably by punching, an extremely rugged contact bar structure is arrived at in a most easy way, which is suitable for the rough environment of a textile mill, and in which the bar portions located remote from the ends of the bar have their connection points located at the end of the bar.

      • 2012, T Wessel, P Scott, System and method for transporting wind turbine tower sections on a shipping vessel - US Patent 8,186,916:

        However, there is sufficient room cross-deck-wise between the outermost mounted tower sections to mount two additional tower sections —but locking components of respective support members secured to tower sections cannot properly align with remaining locking components of deck D.

      • 2016, Cpl. Osborn R. E., Like Killing Rats, →ISBN:

        Weapon barrels pointed deck-wise between clenched knees, eighteen or so of us sat across from one another on one of many twinpropped whirlybirds, flying fore and aft, right and left of us in tight flight formation, the cool wind whipping through the four portholed windows about our whowhopwhop! sounding bird like April winds back home, the gook sky clear as a polished robin's egg, but for a few sparse clouds floating about.