deck

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɛk/ (Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdek/ Rhymes: -ɛk Hyphenation: deck Homophone: deque === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Noun ==== 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 or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. Hyponyms: foredeck, afterdeck, poop deck, well deck Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel Comeronyms: forecastle, aftcastle, aftercastle (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 (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline. Hypernym: headline (sometimes coordinate) Coordinate term: strapline Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation. (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard. (obsolete) A heap or store. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs. (colloquial) The floor. (UK, fishing) The bottom of a water body. (theater) The stage. Ellipsis of tape deck. (graph theory) The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways. Meronym: card ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked) (transitive, uncommon) To furnish with a deck. (transitive, informal) To knock (someone) to the floor, especially with a single punch. (transitive, collectible card games) To cause (a player) to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game. ===== Derived terms ===== deck over deck out ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English dekken, from Middle Dutch dekken (“to cover”), from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną (“to roof; cover”). ==== Verb ==== deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked) (archaic, transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance. (archaic, transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something). (transitive) To cover; to overspread. ===== Usage notes ===== See deck out ===== Derived terms ===== bedeck deck up overdeck undeck ===== Translations ===== == Central Franconian == === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German dicke, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /dek/ ==== Adjective ==== deck (masculine decke, feminine and plural decke or deck, comparative decker, superlative et deckste) (of things) thick (of living beings) fat ==== Adverb ==== deck (comparative decker, superlative et decks) (archaic in some dialects) often, frequently Synonyms: (now predominant) off, oft ===== Alternative forms ===== decks (both forms used alongside) dock, docks; döck, döcks (Eifel, northern Westerwald) === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /dɛk/ ==== Verb ==== deck inflection of decke: singular imperative third-person singular present ===== Alternative forms ===== däck (variant spelling) == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dɛk/ === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from English deck ==== Noun ==== deck m (plural decks) deck, skateboard cover deck, a trading card player’s collection employed in a match deck, floorlike covering of a nautical vessel (North America) deck, an external building Synonym: terrasse === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== deck m (plural decks) alternative spelling of dèk (“cop”) == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [dɛk] === Verb === deck singular imperative of decken (colloquial) first-person singular present of decken == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English deck. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdɛk/ Rhymes: -ɛk === Noun === deck m (invariable) tape deck == Luxembourgish == === Verb === deck second-person singular imperative of decken == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from English deck. === Noun === deck n (plural deckuri) tape deck ==== Declension ====