[ UK /dˈɛk/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛk/ ]
NOUN
  1. street name for a packet of illegal drugs
  2. a pack of 52 playing cards
  3. any of various platforms built into a vessel
  4. a porch that resembles the deck on a ship
VERB
  1. be beautiful to look at
    Flowers adorned the tables everywhere
  2. decorate
    deck the halls with holly
  3. knock down with force
    He decked his opponent
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How To Use deck In A Sentence

  • Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
  • In order to prevent the pipe buckling at the sagbend a horizontal tension was applied to the pipe by tensioners situated on the deck of the vessel.
  • The man played idly with a deck of cards, shuffling and re-shuffling with a bit of a smirk on his face.
  • The watch on deck soon came to the conclusion that "sailoring" was not particularly funny at night, for there was a good deal of gaping, and not a little impatience for the eight bells that would relieve them for Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
  • Avoiding tripping over the lines on deck, you then have to quant your boat through the bridge. Times, Sunday Times
  • The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
  • The lightship has had uplighters added to its fore and aft masts with lighting units added around its deck and jetty.
  • After being dropped in a club to give people a taste of what to expect, it has been spun on decks uncontrollably ever since.
  • By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
  • Or should I just accept the fact that fate has dealt me a card from the bottom of the deck and move on?
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