deck

Meanings

Noun

• Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
• 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.
• A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
• A pack or set of playing cards.
• A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
• A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
• A set of slides for a presentation.
• A heap or store.
• A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
• The floor.
• The stage.

Verb

• To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
• To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
• To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
• To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
• To decorate (something).
• To cover; to overspread.

Origin

• From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec, from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke. thatch, and thack.
• From Middle English dekken, from Middle Dutch dekken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną.