Word Finder - deck

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Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.

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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.

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to swab the deck

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A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.

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A pack or set of playing cards.

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(by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.

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• library

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A set of slides for a presentation.

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A heap or store.

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A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.

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The floor.

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We hit the deck as bullets began to fly.

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To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

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To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.

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Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?

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To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result.

Every day the people went upon deck to look out for land.

Deidre wanted to deck him again.

She wanted to deck her mirror image.

Birds sang in the mature trees that ringed the deck and there was a country smell of spring.

But the captain drove him from the deck, and, wandering on in search of work, he fell in with a canal boatman who engaged him.

The girders carry a floor or platform either on top (deck bridges) or near the bottom (through bridges).

You never would've done what you did if we didn't … stack the deck, I believe you say here.

They may be built on the " deck " principle of two, three, four, or even more reels of paper, and either in single width (two pages wide), or double width (four pages wide).

A sufficient length of cable to reach the shore or the cable-house is paid overboard and coiled on a raft or rafts, or on the deck of a steam-launch, in order to be connected with the shore.

The French doors were locked, and she beat on them, looking around wildly for deck furniture to break the glass.

The deck was furnished with wicker furniture, two chairs fac­ing each other and a sofa with a coffee table in front of it.

It was on this understanding (which Las Cases afterwards misrepresented) that Napoleon on the 15th of July mounted the deck of the "Bellerophon."

The disturbance of the compass by the magnetism of the hull is generally modified, sometimes favourably, more often un favourably, by the magnetized fittings of the ship, such as masts, conning towers, deck houses, engines and boilers.

But he was instantly on his feet again, cried with a loud voice that it was well with him, and set every one an example of duty by remaining on deck till the fight was over.

When Ne'Rin signaled all was ready, he strode from the deck into the corridor and straight to her cell.

If she accepted, there was no going back, and she suspected Darian had already stacked the deck to win, whatever win meant to a wild man like him.

As he stood on the quarter-deck of the "Trinity" a cannon close by was exploded by a Swedish bullet, and splinters of wood and metal wounded the king in thirteen places, blinding one eye and flinging him to the deck.

The sailors, desirous of hearing so famous a musician, consented, and the poet, standing on the deck of the ship, in full minstrel's attire, sang a dirge accompanied by his lyre.

Special Features Enclosed skeg box, two access ports, on deck storage, removable bow line.

At a cost of $7,200,000, the city completed in 1917 a municipal bridge of massive steel construction, double track and double deck, across the Mississippi.

The ships have a one spot flight deck with full hangar facilities for a Merlin helicopter.

A poop deck aft had cabins below and she probably had a high forecastle over the stem.

S.S. Oxfordshire The ship had a large foredeck which was ideal for cricket and deck games in the afternoons.

Dives are usually made from the deck as she has a low freeboard returning using a removable dive ladder.

The scans are much better quality than mine, so why not freshen your deck?

In the 1790s the Americans built some very large 44 gun frigates with an extra gun deck on top of the normal one.

We descended onto the deck of the Russian destroyer 356, a missile frigate that had once belonged to the Soviet Navy.

You're going to build a deck, add a porch, erect a gazebo or lay a patio.

Up on deck your Nile cruise ship helps create a gentle breeze that is often a welcome relief from the Egyptian sun.

Only surviving deck rooting around a. Scheme of cruise lines operate ships larger bilingual german.

One of this article's authors took his two-year-old goddaughter and her parents to the observation deck of Boston's Prudential Center.

Like BP, it has suffered a broken genoa halyard, dumping the sail on the deck.

The deck support joists are then fixed to the ledger board using joist hangers.

At the same time, concrete haunches were formed to support the road deck units.

He was out there with the crew helping to cut the aerial free as these steel hawsers whipped around the deck.

The top deck will be able to move independently from the lower deck, providing greater headroom between the decks.

Next came the two rubber hoses form the deck water system.

Sample tranquil Kerala's famous backwaters, explored from the deck of a traditional houseboat.

The steel hull remains lying on her port side in 27 meters with the deck planking now gone.

Plan to spend time on deck and on the Bridge watching our powerful icebreaker at work and looking out for polar bears.

A barge he deck is where on the wild the night jaunt.

The biggest joker in current deck is Al Qaeda.

You'll probably have to twiddle some knobs on your cassette deck to get the levels just right.

The vessel is provided with a sturdy dive ladder which allows reasonable access from the water back onto her deck.

There is a private 28 ft pool with fiber optic colored lighting, extended deck and covered lanai.

These covers securely latch onto the pool deck or fit into tracks along the pool edge.

Deck we watched expert on all club lido restaurant at the back.

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The 9 ply maple deck is designed for all rider weights and the new shape allows riders with large feet to ride comfortably.

Both Tresarrieu and Janniro hit the deck in the resultant melee and for a short time, there was concern for prostrate Adams.