deck
[verb]
Synonyms: decorate, adorn, array, beautify, clothe, dress, embellish, festoon

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Contrasted words: deface, disfigure, impair, mar, spoil, contort, deform, distort, dismantle, divest, strip
Related Words: apparel, array, attire, clothe, dress, accouter, appoint, furnish

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English Thesaurus: floor, storey, the ground floor, the first floor, deck, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. deck¹ /dek/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Middle Dutch; Origin: dec 'roof, covering']

1. ON A SHIP
a) the outside top level of a ship that you can walk or sit on:
Let’s go up on deck.
above/below deck
Peter stayed below deck.
b) one of the different levels on a ship
main/passenger/car etc deck
a staircase leading to the passenger deck

2. ON A BUS, PLANE ETC one of the levels on a bus, plane etc
lower/upper etc deck
I managed to find a seat on the upper deck.
Eddie returned to the flight deck (=the part of an aircraft where the pilot sits). ⇒ double-decker(1), single-decker

3. AT THE BACK OF A HOUSE American English a wooden floor built out from the back of a house, where you can sit and relax outdoors ⇒ decking:
deck furniture

4. MUSIC a piece of equipment used for playing music tapes, records etc
cassette/tape/record deck

5. CARDS a set of playing cards Synonym : pack British English:
Irene shuffled the deck.
a deck of cards
⇒ all hands on deck at hand¹(38), ⇒ clear the decks at clear²(17), ⇒ hit the deck at hit¹(17)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. deck² verb [transitive]
[Sense 1: Date: 1500-1600; Language: Dutch; Origin: dekken 'to cover']
[Sense 2: Date: 1900-2000; Origin: ⇒ deck¹]

1. (also deck something out) [usually passive] to decorate something with flowers, flags etc
deck something (out) with something
The street was decked with flags for the royal wedding.

2. informal to hit someone so hard that they fall over:
Gerry just swung round and decked him.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

deck
noun
I. top outside floor of a ship/boat
ADJ. open
VERB + DECK go up on When we heard the alarm, we went up on deck.
PREP. below ~ The passengers were trapped below deck.
on ~ I joined the others on deck.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

deck
II. one of the floors of a bus/ship
ADJ. lower, top, upper | aft/after, main, poop, promenade, saloon, sun (on a ship)
PREP. on a/the ~ sitting on the top deck of the bus

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

floor one of the levels in a building:
She lives in an apartment on the eighteenth floor.
storey British English, story American English used when saying how many levels a building has:
a five-storey car park
The school is a single storey building.
the ground floor (also the first floor American English) the floor of a building that is at ground level:
There is a shop on the ground floor.
The emergency room is on the first floor.
the first floor British English, the second floor American English the floor of a building above the one at ground level:
She lives on the first floor.
deck one of the levels on a ship, bus, or plane:
The Horizon Lounge is on the top deck of the ship.
a true story
‘Schindler’s List’ tells the true story of Oskar Schindler.
a classic story (=old and admired by many people, or typical and good )
a classic story about a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole
a short story
He has published two collections of short stories.
a children’s story
Enid Blyton is famous for writing children’s stories.
a love story
‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a classic love story.
a fairy story (=a children's story in which magical things happen)
She looked like a princess in a fairy story.
an adventure story
an exciting adventure story for children
a detective story
Most detective stories are about a murder.
a ghost/horror story
They sat round the fire telling ghost stories.
She likes reading horror stories.
a bedtime story (=one that you read to a child before they go to sleep)
He remembered his mother reading him a bedtime story.
tell (somebody) a story
Would you like me to tell you a story?
read (somebody) a story
She read a lot of detective stories.
write a story
The story was written by Lewis Carroll.
a big story (=a report about something important)
He had promised the newspaper a big story on a major celebrity.
the lead/top story (=the most important story in a newspaper or news programme)
The floods were the lead story on the news that evening.
a front-page story
The Times published a front-page story about the scandal.
a cover story (=the main story in a magazine, mentioned on the cover)
Hello magazine did a cover story on her last year.
do a story (=write and then print or broadcast it)
I went to Iraq to do a story on the war.
print/publish a story
The News of the World decided not to print the story.
run a story (=print it or broadcast it)
There wasn't enough definite information to run the story.
cover a story (=report on it)
Her family complained about the way that journalists had covered the story.
break a story (=report on it for the first time)
The Daily Mail was the paper which broke the story.
leak a story (=secretly tell a reporter about it)
We may never know who leaked the story to the press.
a story breaks (=it is reported for the first time)
I still remember the shock when that story broke.
story a description of how something happened that is intended to entertain people, and may be true or imaginary:
a ghost story
a love story
It’s a story about a man who loses his memory.
a book of short stories
tale a story about strange imaginary events, or exciting events that happened in the past:
a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
I loved hearing tales of his travels.
myth noun [uncountable and countable] a very old imaginary story about gods and magical creatures:
an ancient myth
Greek and Roman myths
legend noun [uncountable and countable] an old story about brave people or magical events that are probably not true:
popular legends of the creation of the world
According to legend, King Arthur was buried there.
fable a traditional imaginary short story that teaches a moral lesson, especially a story about animals:
the fable of the tortoise and the hare
a Chinese fable
epic a story told in a long book, film, or poem which is about great or exciting events, especially in history:
an epic about 13th-century Scottish hero William Wallace
saga a story about a series of events that take place over a long period of time, especially events involving one family:
a family saga beginning in the 1880s
yarn informal a long exciting story that is not completely true:
The movie’s a rattling good yarn and full of action.
give (somebody) a story
I had the feeling that she wasn't giving me the full story.
hear a story (also listen to a story)
I’ve heard that story a hundred times.
make up/invent a story
She confessed to making up the story of being abducted.
stick to your story (=keep saying it is true)
He didn’t believe her at first, but she stuck to her story.
change your story
During police interviews, Harper changed his story several times.
believe a story
The jury did not believe Evans's story.
swap stories (=tell each other stories)
They swapped stories and shared their experiences.
the story goes (=this is what is people say happened)
The story goes that he was drowned off the south coast, but not everyone believed it.
a story goes around (=people tell it to each other)
A story went around that she had been having an affair.
the full/whole story
I did not know the full story.
a plausible/convincing story
She tried to think up a convincing story to tell her parents.
a remarkable story
The film tells the remarkable story of their escape from a prison camp.
an apocryphal story (=one that is well-known but probably not true)
There are many apocryphal stories about him.
the inside story (=including facts that are known only to people involved)
Though I’d seen the official report, I wanted the inside story.
sb’s side of the story (=someone’s account of what happened, which may be different from someone else’s)
I would like to give my side of the story.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

deck
dek
See: hit the deck , on deck

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