deck
- noun
- /dɛk/
- Can you hand me that deck of cards from the table so we can start the game?
- a deck of cards
- to stack the deck
John, we have this great card deck called Expressing your Needs.
- John, we have this great card deck called Expressing your Needs.
- So it truly could be any card in the deck, meaning it's all.
- How many cards are in a standard deck that goes to Gerard?
- You see now every card in this deck has jumped back.
- You know, do you remember the FBI had that deck of cards?
- It has it rhymes in some way with the face guards and a deck of cards.
- Don't look at it, put it back in the deck ripping over.
- Confidence is not holding back the deck of cards of your weaknesses.
- But not I guarantee you if I made five decks, you'd get most of them wrong.
- You're doing like all kinds of like fold it like a bunch of deck of cards like he does in the show.
Examples
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It's the most valuable card in my deck, and I want you to have it.
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Give me a deck of cards, please.
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All the cards in the deck are red except for one which is black.
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So it truly could be any card in the deck, meaning it's all.
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In addition to the 16 cards in the main deck, four additional "hold-out" cards were provided.
Academic text (2016) -
"Can I cut the deck?" I liked to do that, which exasperated my mother.
Fiction book (1997) -
I knew card tricks and went around with a deck demonstrating my magical skills.
Fiction book (1993) -
Larry set out the three decks of cards on the round wooden table in the living room.
Fiction book (1991) -
Children's card games and some standard decks of cards are available in enlarged print.
Academic text (2004) -
During the game, each player drew a card from the deck to see who would go first.
Synonyms
A complete set of 52 playing cards used in games like poker and bridge
A set of 52 cards used for playing games
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
The part of a ship below the main floor where crew sleep or store things
- UK
A folding outdoor chair with a wooden frame and a cloth seat used for sitting in the sun
- Specialized
Top outside part of a ship open to rain and wind that protects the area below
- Specialized
An upper deck on a ship where the captain stands to steer and look out
- Specialized
The top watertight deck on a ship used to measure the ship's height above water
Surface Forms
Etymology
Deck for a pack of cards likely grew from the same old word dek and the idea of a 'pack' or set of things held together. That's why a deck of cards means the whole 'pack' you shuffle and deal.