Definition of "deck"

deck¹

/dɛk/

noun
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.
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  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.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
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.
6. (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
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  If there's a strapline or subdeck, write these after the main deck and don't use the same words.
  2005, Richard Keeble, Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction, page 114
7. A set of slides for a presentation.
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  Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it.
  2011, David Kroenke, Donald Nilson, Office 365 in Business
8. (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
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  The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language.
  2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13
9. (obsolete) A heap or store.
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  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
10. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
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  Defendant placed the decks in his pocket and, after driving out of the city, gave one to Shore. While still in the car, Shore snorted half of the deck. When they returned to defendant's home, defendant handed Shore a second deck of heroin.
  2007, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, volume 188
11. (colloquial) The floor.
  Quotations
  Williams fell to the deck. Following a lengthy check, he was replaced by Connor Roberts due to a suspected concussion - a scenario well explained by the stadium's staff over the PA system.
  2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline‎
12. (theater) The stage.
13. Short for tape deck.
  Quotations
  The general operating procedure for recording a tape is basically the same as for playing it. After you insert the tape in the deck, you fast forward it to the end and then completely rewind it.
  1985, Byte, volume 10, page 111
verb
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.
3. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.

deck²

/dɛk/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  And deck my body in gay ornaments, / And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  Decke thy selfe now with Maiestie, and excellencie, and aray thy selfe with glory, and beautie.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 40:10
  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.
  1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 39”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]
2. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
  Quotations
  (now the dew with spangles decked the ground)
  1700, John Dryden, transl., The Flower and the Leaf
3. (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
  Quotations
  Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, / Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers
  1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

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