Deck: Definition and part of speech

Deck

  1. v. A heap or store.
  2. v. t. To cover; to overspread.
  3. v. t. To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
  4. v. t. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  5. v. The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
  6. v. The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
  7. v. The roof of a passenger car.
  8. v. A pack or set of playing cards.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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