deck

Betekenis (Engels)

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 or boat. 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. (broadly) 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. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of slide deck: 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. (British) The bottom of a water body.
13. The stage.
14. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of tape deck.
15. The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.

Verb

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

Sinonieme

decorate

adorn

embellish

ornament

beautify

pack

floor

bedeck

grace

garnish

knock down

trim

set

array

pack of cards

tape deck

dress

👗

deck of cards

cover

stack

coldcock

veranda

roof-deck

suit

sundeck

flooring

deck of bridge

tape transport

festoon

deck out

storey

terrace

porch

dump

bedight

soundboard

blazon

courtyard

biff

clothe

bestrew

clobber

gallery

chop

bespangle

beat up

furnish

garb

floors

caparison

Vertalings

pont

cubierta

Deck

dek

κατάστρωμα

ponte

convés

güverte

baraja

scheepsdek

adornare

coperta

στολίζω

verdek

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɛk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: dekke

Verwante met Duits: Decke

Geërf van 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.