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A ship with deck numbered 8.

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.

deck (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 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
    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:
      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.
  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.
    Synonym: library
  6. (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
    Hypernym: headline (sometimes coordinate)
    Coordinate term: strapline
    • 2005, Richard Keeble, Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction, page 114:
      If there's a strapline or subdeck, write these after the main deck and don't use the same words.
  7. Ellipsis of slide deck: 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.
  8. (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
    • 2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13:
      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.
  9. (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
  10. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
  1. (colloquial) The floor.
    We hit the deck as bullets began to fly.
  1. (British, fishing) The bottom of a water body.
  1. (theater) The stage.
  2. Ellipsis of tape deck.
  1. (graph theory) The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.
    Meronym: card

any raised flat surface walked on

pack of playing cards

floorlike covering on a ship — see also hull

Translations to be checked

deck (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.
    Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?
  3. (collectible card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.

to furnish with a deck, as a vessel

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”).

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

  1. (archaic, transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
  2. (archaic, transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
    • 2001, “Psalm 65”, in The Bible (English Standard Version), verses 12–13:
      The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
      the hills gird themselves with joy,
      the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
      the valleys deck themselves with grain,
      they shout and sing together for joy.
  3. (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, / Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers

From Middle High German dicke, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz.

deck (masculine decke, feminine and plural decke or **deck, comparative decker, superlative et deckste)

  1. (of things) thick
  2. (of living beings) fat

deck (comparative decker, superlative et decks)

  1. (archaic in some dialects) often, frequently
    Synonyms: (now predominant) off, oft

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

deck

  1. inflection of decke:
    1. singular imperative
    2. third-person singular present

Borrowed from English deck

deck m (plural decks)

  1. deck, skateboard cover
  2. deck, a trading card player’s collection employed in a match
  3. deck, floorlike covering of a nautical vessel
  4. (North America) deck, an external building
    Synonym: terrasse

deck m (plural decks)

  1. alternative spelling of dèk (“cop”)

deck

  1. singular imperative of decken
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of decken

Unadapted borrowing from English deck.

deck m (invariable)

  1. tape deck

deck

  1. second-person singular imperative of decken

Borrowed from English deck.

deck n (plural deckuri)

  1. tape deck