Definition of "deck" in English

noun

1. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.

2. (nautical) 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
   • to swab the deck

3. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.

4. (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.

5. (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.

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

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

8. (computing) 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.

    • We hit the deck as bullets began to fly.

12. (British, fishing) The bottom of a water body.

13. (theater) The stage.

14. Ellipsis of tape deck.

15. (graph theory) The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.

verb

1. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

2. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.

   • Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?

3. (collectible card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.

verb

1. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.

2. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).

3. (transitive) To cover; to overspread.