deck

Meaning

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.

decorate

pack of cards

roof-deck

tape transport

deck of bridge

deck of cards

landing deck

tape reader

fall-board

spread over

surface plate

flatbase

flatform

card deck

flat top of a roof

scatter over

tape unit

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

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɛk/

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.