deck

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The flat floor of a ship that you can walk on.

   We stood on the deck and watched the harbour disappear.

2. 2
   noun

   A complete set of playing cards.

   He shuffled the deck and dealt seven cards to each player.

3. 3
   noun

   A set of slides for a presentation.

   She spent the evening polishing the slide deck for tomorrow's meeting.

4. 4
   verb

   To decorate something with attractive things.

   We decked the halls with holly for Christmas.

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.

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