deck – English noun declension

English noun forms of deck

Noun: deck
Singulardeck
Pluraldecks

Sample Sentences

  • Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel
  • to swab the deck
  • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • If there's a strapline or subdeck, write these after the main deck and don't use the same words. [2005, Richard Keeble, Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction, page 114:]
  • Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it. [2011, David Kroenke, Donald Nilson, Office 365 in Business:]
  • The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language. [2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13:]
  • A paper-blurrer, who on all occasions, / For all times, and all season, hath such trinkets / Ready in the deck [1655, Philip Massinger, The Guardian, act III, scene iii:]
  • Defendant placed the decks in his pocket and, after driving out of the city, gave one to Shore. While still in the car, Shore snorted half of the deck. When they returned to defendant's home, defendant handed Shore a second deck of heroin. [2007, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, volume 188:]
  • We hit the deck as bullets began to fly.
  • Williams fell to the deck. Following a lengthy check, he was replaced by Connor Roberts due to a suspected concussion - a scenario well explained by the stadium's staff over the PA system. [2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:]
  • Wily carp are quickly put on their guard by tight lines cutting through the water, so another common measure is to use a back lead to keep the line on the deck. [2012, Peter Kaminsky, Greg Schwipps, “Part IV: Now You're Fishing”, in Fishing for Dummies, UK edition, Adapted by Dominic Garnett, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., page 298:]
  • The general operating procedure for recording a tape is basically the same as for playing it. After you insert the tape in the deck, you fast forward it to the end and then completely rewind it. [1985, Byte, volume 10, page 111:]

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'dekke', German Nouns 'Decke'.

Verbs referencing "deck"

French Nouns deck, Romanian Nouns deck, German Nouns Deck, German Nouns Decke, Finnish Nouns dekki, Irish Nouns deic.