deck
/ˈdɛk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.41 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
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.
noun
A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
noun
A pack or set of playing cards.
noun
A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
noun
Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
noun
A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel"
- "to swab the deck"
- "Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either."
- "If there's a strapline or subdeck, write these after the main deck and don't use the same words."
- "Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it."
- "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."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɛk/
- British English: /ˈdɛk/