deck
/dɛk
/- The play opens on the deck of a ship that is sailing from the north African city of Carthage to the Italian city of Naples.
- The launchers are installed at a fixed elevation on the upper deck behind the main mast.
- Adrianna was standing on the forecastle deck near the bowsprit of the ship, staring out at the crashing waves and crystal clear water.
- The concrete deck forms a platform from which the building rises.
- It even has its own viewing platform, up a spiral stair to the rooftop deck.
- Taipei 101 management will open an observation deck on the 89th floor of the building on Jan.19.
- I am not a fan of bus travel in general, with one exception, which is that I enjoy sitting in the front seat of the top deck of a double-decker bus and watching London go by.
- One of my favourite things is to sit on the top deck of a double-decker bus and watch the world go by beneath you.
- Mostly, however, the show ranged far further afield, with sketches taking place on the top deck of a moving double-decker bus, in the sea, in forests and so on.
- The wooden deck attached to your house is NOT a good place to barbecue.
- In some areas a deck attached to a house will be taxed, but if it is separated by even an inch or two it will not.
- I work in a cozy tiny bright room in the garage and have a clear view of the back of the house to which a large deck is attached.
- It was always going to be a difficult game to officiate given Tyrone's willingness to hit the deck but White punished petulance as well as could have been expected.
- All I see is the Marines just hit the deck and start shooting.
- As soon as he hit the deck, Kenny Logan grabbed the ball and raced through the middle to score under the posts.
- He has turned skateboard decks into an art form, appealing to art enthusiasts.
- He managed to get off the bus before me, as I had two bags, my guitar and my skateboard decks to carry.
- I've done very technically accomplished mixes on home hi-fi equipment - two hi-fi decks and a tape recorder.
- Sound and Video clips are played in from computer servers rather than Tape machines and record decks.
- After the recording is finished, the tape rewinds and the deck starts scanning for commercials.
- I was back where I belong - I was back home, behind the decks with a crowd in front of me.
- She's also a guest DJ at Ibiza Rocks, where Idris Elba takes to the decks.
- Whenever I'm at a party or round at my mate's houses, I can't help getting on the decks.
- The virtual deck of cards is shuffled randomly, and the top cards off the deck are dealt.
- Intimate Poker is a deck of cards with a range of forfeits specified on each card.
- Feeling the clasp of a hand on his shoulder Ben turned and could not resist a smile as Jack took out his trademark deck of cards and shuffled it in mid air.
- You got a hint that he was a Wolves supporter from the fact that he wore a golden shirt, his car was decked out in flags… and his hair was dyed gold.
- Their table is already decked out in the flags of several different countries.
- This weekend many pubs will be decked out in flags and banners and a growing number of councils are spending a small fortune on celebrations.
Synonyms
- I thought Kent had become timid after Kareem decked him with one punch during his rookie year.
- When Ford again tried to reach for Grace, she spun away from him, decking him with her elbow and then knocking his feet out from under him with a deft kick.
- She was breathing hard, and her fists were clenched as if she were ready to deck the first person that got in her way.
Phrases
not playing with a full deck
on deck
Origin
Late Middle English: from Middle Dutch dec 'covering, roof, cloak', dekken 'to cover'. Originally denoting canvas used to make a covering (especially on a ship), the term came to mean the covering itself, later denoting a solid surface serving as roof and floor.
Originally deck was a material such as canvas that was used as a covering, especially on a ship. By the end of the 15th century it was in use for the platform of planks extending across a ship. A deck-chair was originally used for passengers who wanted to sit on a ship's deck. Because they were foldable, they could be put away if you needed to clear the decks. A double-decker (mid 19th century) was originally a ship with two decks rather than a bus.
A pack of cards is usually called a deck in the USA, and the term was formerly also British—it is recorded in Shakespeare. The definition in Dr Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, indicates the idea behind the term: ‘A pack of cards piled regularly on each other’, like the decks of a ship. In the USA a person who is not playing with a full deck is unintelligent. As a verb deck meant ‘to decorate, adorn’, as in ‘Deck the halls with boughs of holly’, from the early 16th century. In the 1940s a new meaning arose in the USA, ‘to knock someone to the ground with a punch’, probably from the naval expression hit the deck, which originally meant ‘jump out of bed for a morning roll call’.
Rhymes
- optical character recognition
- optical comparator
- optical dating
- optical density
- optical disc
- optical disk
- optical double
- optical drive
- optical fibre
- optical flat
- optical glass
- optical illusion
- optical indicatrix
- optical isomer
- optical isomerism
- opticality
- optical lattice
- optical length
- optically
- optically active
- optical microscope
- optical model
- optical molasses
- optical mouse
- optical path