deck

English Online Dictionary. What means deck‎? What does deck mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk
• 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)

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.
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
7. A set of slides for a presentation.
8. (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
9. (obsolete) A heap or store.
10. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
11. (colloquial) The floor.
12. (British, fishing) The bottom of a water body.
13. (theater) The stage.
14. Short for tape deck.
15. (graph theory) The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.

    Meronym: card

16. (euphemistic, slang) dick; penis. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.

3. (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)

1. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
2. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
3. (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)

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

Adverb

deck (comparative decker, superlative et decks)

1. (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

1. inflection of decke:
   1. singular imperative
   2. 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)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

deck m (plural decks)

1. Alternative spelling of dèk (“cop”)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɛk]

Verb

deck

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English deck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

deck m (invariable)

1. tape deck

Luxembourgish

Verb

deck

1. second-person singular imperative of decken

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English deck.

Noun

deck n (plural deckuri)

1. tape deck

Declension