deck

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
2. 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. A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
4. A pack or set of playing cards.
5. A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
6. A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
7. A set of slides for a presentation.
8. 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. The bottom of a water body.
13. The stage.
14. Short for tape deck.
15. (slang) dick.

Verb

1. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
2. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
3. To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.

Verb

1. To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
2. To decorate (something).
3. To cover; to overspread.

Synonyms

decorate

adorn

embellish

beautify

ornament

floor

pack

grace

bedeck

garnish

knock down

trim

array

set

dress

👗

tape deck

pack of cards

deck out

suit

roof-deck

cover

tape transport

terrace

coldcock

festoon

porch

bedight

veranda

dump

soundboard

deck of bridge

sundeck

flooring

stack

deck of cards

storey

jacket

landing

landing deck

level

levels

lid

look

lumber

mechanism

module

nautical

outfit

paper

paste

patio

perk

pick

⛏️

planking

platform

playing cards

polish

🇵🇱

pound

💷

prank

prim

primp

prink

spangle

spruce

stage

story

strew

table

tape drive

tape reader

thrash

titivate

tog

topside

trick

whomp

work over

doll up

fall-board

spread over

surface plate

flatbase

flatform

card deck

flat top of a roof

scatter over

bang out

tape unit

dime bag

fallboard

fancify

tape machine

accoutre

tape feed

tape handler

tape station

befeather

magnetic tape handler

tape driver

plain stage

level table

chart drive mechanism

magnetic tape transport

tape handling unit

deck tape

magnetic tape deck

magnetic tape station

loading jack

loader slide

truck fill stand

magnetic tape unit

attire

beat

beat up

bedizen

bench

bespangle

bestrew

biff

blazon

bludgeon

board

bolt

book

📖

break up

bridge

cap

caparison

chop

clobber

clothe

courtyard

dime

doll

drop

emblazon

fit out

flat

flight deck

floors

furnish

gallery

garb

hack

hew

hew out

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɛk/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: dekke

Cognate with Duits: Decke

Inherited from Middle English: dekken

In summary

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.