EGAVE

deck

About 12.93 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  2. 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.
    to swab the deck
  3. noun A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
  4. noun A pack or set of playing cards.
  5. noun A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
  6. noun A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
  7. noun Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
  8. noun A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.

Similar words

floor dump decorate adorn bedeck bedight embellish coldcock knock down beautify

Often followed by

of and to in with was is the for

Word family

decked decking decks

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