Meaning

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

    Terrasse

    насти́лnastíl

  2. 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

    Deck

    па́лубаpáluba, декdɛk

    па́лубаpáluba

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

  4. A pack or set of playing cards.

    Kartenstapel, Kartenspiel

    коло́даkolóda

    коло́даkolóda

    a pack of 52 playing cards

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

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

  7. A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.

  8. (slang)A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.

  9. (colloquial)The floor.

    We hit the deck as bullets began to fly.

  10. (UK)The bottom of a water body.

  11. The stage.

  12. The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.

Examples

130 sentences
  1. The ship had three decks.

    Корабель мав три палуби.

    ruНа корабле было три палубы.

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  2. Lunch is usually on the deck.

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  3. Why don't we go up on deck?

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  4. Why don't we sit on the deck?

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  5. Tom isn't playing with a full deck.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
floorlike covering on a ship:
pack of playing cards:
Русский
By meaning 3
any raised flat surface walked on:
floorlike covering on a ship:
pack of playing cards:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
any raised flat surface walked on:
floorlike covering on a ship:
pack of playing cards:

Origin

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle

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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