deck
part of speech
noun (deck, decks); verb (deck, decks, decked — to decorate)
meaning for a pupil
1) A deck is a set of playing cards. A usual deck has 52 cards. tree →
2) A deck is a floor of a ship or bus, like the top deck. tree →
3) A deck is a wooden floor outside a house. tree →
4) To deck is to decorate, as in «deck the halls». tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: a set of cards (52 in a usual deck, in 4 suits of 13), or an area to build or paint (area = length × width); dealing equally means divide; chance of drawing a card; everyday life: card games, the top deck of a bus, sitting on the deck in summer; stories: sailors on the deck of a ship
examples
- A deck has 52 cards. tree →
- She dealt the deck equally to 4 players. tree →
- He paints a deck that is 10 feet by 12 feet. tree →
- They have 3 decks of cards. tree →
- We sat on the top deck of the bus. tree →
- The sailors stood on the deck. tree →
- Shuffle the deck before you deal. tree →
- Deck the halls with holly. tree →
- Ralph the Rover walked the deck. tree →
note
A hidden number: a standard deck is 52 cards. As a wooden floor it is an area problem. Trap: dealing a deck equally means divide by the number of players (52 ÷ 4 = 13). British English says «pack of cards» too.
In the corpora
- "Not playing with a full deck" (US) means stupid or a bit mad.
- "One card short of a full deck" means stupid or a bit mad; it is a humorous phrase.
- A full deck of playing cards, without the jokers, has 52 cards: 4 suits of 13.
- New cars travel to dealers on double-deck car transporter lorries, and car ships can carry several thousand cars at once.
- If the ship pushes aside water that weighs as much as the whole ship before its deck reaches the waterline, it floats.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «deck» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.