Deck

Deck may refer to:

In vehicles:

  • Deck (ship), a floor of a ship
  • Bus deck, referring to the number of passenger levels on a bus or coach
  • Plane deck, referring to the flight deck or the fuselage

In construction:

  • Deck (building), an outdoor floor attached to a building made of only wood or woodlike material
  • Roof deck, a roof system
  • Observation deck, a platform situated upon a tall architectural structure or natural feature
  • Deck (bridge), the roadway surface of a bridge
  • Decking, a garden structure with a suspended wooden surface
  • The concrete or tile area surrounding a swimming pool
  • Another name for a storey
  • Deck tiles, tiles of wood with a polypropylene base that interlock together
  • Deck arch bridge, a type of bridge
  • Orthotropic deck

In business:

  • Business Deck, a presentation, usually in Powerpoint or Keynote

In games and sports:

  • deck, the flat surface of a skateboard
  • Deck (cards), a collection of cards
  • Game deck, a video game system

People:

  • Théodore Deck, 19th century French ceramicist

In music:

  • a Head unit
  • a Phonograph turntable
  • Tape deck, a sound recording and playback device

In entertainment:

  • A stage (theatre)
  • Deck Afta, a character from the anime Space Runaway Ideon

In publishing:

  • deck or dek, a phrase, sentence or several sentences near the title of an article or story

As a euphemism:

  • To strike or hit with the intention of rendering the recipient to the floor - "I'll deck you"

Famous quotes containing the word deck:

    Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them
    Printing their proud hooves i’ the receiving earth;
    For ‘tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    And deck the bananas in leaves
    Plucked from the Carib trees,
    Fibrous and dangling down,
    Oozing cantankerous gum
    Out of their purple maws....
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    I sang as one
    Who on a tilting deck sings
    To keep men’s courage up, though the wake hangs
    That shall cut off their sun.
    Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)