deck

Meanings

Plural: decks

Noun

• any of various platforms built into a vessel
• street name for a packet of illegal drugs
• a pack of 52 playing cards
• a porch that resembles the deck on a ship
• 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 or boat. 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 full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
• Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
• A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
• A heap or store.
• A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
• The floor.
• The bottom of a water body.
• The stage.
• Ellipsis of tape deck.
• The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.
• Pronunciation spelling of dick (“penis”).

Verb

• be beautiful to look at
• decorate
  • "deck the halls with holly"
• knock down with force
  • "He decked his opponent"
• 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.

Synonyms

adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedight, coldcock, deck of cards, decorate, dump, embellish, floor, grace, knock down, library, pack of cards