deck

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   knock down with force

   They decked their opponent.

2. 2
   verb

   decorate

   deck the halls with holly

3. 3
   noun

   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.

   Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel

4. 4
   noun

   A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.

   If there's a strapline or subdeck, write these after the main deck and don't use the same words.

5. 5
   noun

   Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.

   Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it.

6. 6
   noun

   A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   A heap or store.

   A paper-blurrer, who on all occasions, / For all times, and all season, hath such trinkets / Ready in the deck

8. 8
   noun

   A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.

   Defendant placed the decks in his pocket and, after driving out of the city, gave one to Shore. While still in the car, Shore snorted half of the deck. When they returned to defendant's home, defendant handed Shore a second deck of heroin.

Etymology

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.