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:
“And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptunes diadem.”
—Thomas Campion (15671620)
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“At twenty-two, hed been a cowboy, a rustler, one of the best in the Sprawl.... Hed operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the Matrix.”
—William Gibson b. (1948)