deck

noun

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

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

(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.

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

(colloquial) The floor.

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

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

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

(theater) The stage.

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

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

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

Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation. [A slideshow: a set of slides for a presentation, either digital or physical.]

Ellipsis of tape deck. [tape recorder]

(obsolete) A heap or store.

verb

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

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

(transitive) To cover; to overspread.

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

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

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

Synonyms for deck

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