Deck

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A platform extending horizontally from one side of a ship to the other.
  • n. A platform or surface likened to a ship's deck.
  • n. A roofless, floored structure, typically with a railing, that adjoins a house.
  • n. The roadway of a bridge or an elevated freeway.
  • n. A pack of playing cards.
  • n. A group of data processing cards.
  • n. A tape deck.
  • n. Slang A packet of narcotics.
  • v. To furnish with or as if with a deck.
  • v. Slang To knock down: He decked his sparring partner.
  • idiom. clear the deck Informal To prepare for action.
  • idiom. hit the deck Slang To get out of bed.
  • idiom. hit the deck Slang To fall or drop to a prone position.
  • idiom. hit the deck Slang To prepare for action.
  • idiom. on deck On hand; present.
  • idiom. on deck Sports Waiting to take one's turn, especially as a batter in baseball.
  • v. To clothe with finery; adorn. Often used with out: We were all decked out for the party.
  • v. To decorate: decked the halls for the holidays.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance
  • v. To decorate (something).
  • n. Any flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  • n. A pack or set of playing cards.
  • n. 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.
  • v. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  • v. In a fight or brawl, to knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cover; to overspread.
  • v. To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
  • v. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  • v. to knock down (a person) with a forceful blow.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
  • n. The roof of a passenger car.
  • n. A pack or set of playing cards.
  • n. A heap or store.
  • n. A main aëroplane surface, esp. of a biplane or multiplane.
  • n. the portion of a bridge which serves as the roadway.
  • n. a flat platform adjacent to a house, usually without a roof; -- it is typically used for relaxing out of doors, outdoor cooking, or entertaining guests.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cover; overspread; invest; especially, to array or clothe with something resplendent or ornamental; adorn; embellish; set out: as, to deck one's self for a wedding; she was decked with jewels.
  • Nautical, to furnish with or as with a deck, as a vessel.
  • In mining, to load or unload (the cars or tubs) upon the cage.
  • [Cf. deck, n., 5.] To discard. Grose.
  • n. A covering; anything that serves as a sheltering cover.
  • n. An approximately horizontal platform or floor extending from side to side of a ship or of a part of a ship, as of a deck-house, and supported by beams and carlines.
  • n. In mining, the platform of the cage; that part of the cage on which the cars stand or the men ride. Cages are sometimes built with as many as four decks.
  • n. A pile of things laid one upon another; a heap; a store; a file, as of cards or papers.
  • n. A pack of cards containing only those necessary to play any given game: as, a euchre deck; a bezique deck.
  • n. That part of a pack which remains after the deal, and from which cards may be drawn during the course of the game.
  • n. To command every part of the deck, as with small arms, from the tops of an attacking vessel, To take off or carry away all the stakes on a card-table; hence, generally, to gain everything.
  • To rig out: as, to deck the card-cylinder of a Jacquard loom.
  • n.
  • n. In car-building, the roof of the clearstory of a passenger-car, often called upper deck; also, the sloping roof on either side of the clearstory, often called lower deck. The word is used in many compounds, such as deck-hood, a projecting shelter to keep the rain out of the deck-end ventilator of a streetcar; deck-lamp, a gas-lamp suspended from the under side of the deck; deck-sash, a clearstory window.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a pack of 52 playing cards
  • n. a porch that resembles the deck on a ship
  • n. street name for a packet of illegal drugs
  • v. be beautiful to look at
  • n. any of various platforms built into a vessel
  • v. knock down with force
  • v. decorate
  • Verb Form
    decked    decking    decks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pack    beat   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    coldcock    dump    knockdown    floor    orlop    texas    hurricane deck    splinter deck    poop deck    main deck   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cech    Czech    Dec    Eck    Lech    Lek    Peck    Quebec    bec    beck   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    floor    hull    bridge    board    roof    cabin    boat    grind    rail    side