(aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
(card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
(card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
(colloquial) The floor.
(journalism) A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
(nautical) 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.
(obsolete) A heap or store.
(slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
(theater) The stage.
A set of slides for a presentation.
Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
Short for tape deck.
verb
(card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
(informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
(transitive) To cover; to overspread.
(transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
(transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
(uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
deek
deek
noun
(Tyneside) A look.
verb
(Tyneside) To look.
deke
deke
noun
(Canada, slang) A quick detour.
(ice hockey) A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team.
verb
(Canada) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
(ice hockey) To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.
derk
desk
desk
noun
A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
Short for mixing desk.
verb
(transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
(transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
dike
dike
noun
(US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
(US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
(chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
Alternative form of dyke: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.
verb
(US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.
(chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.
doek
doek
noun
(South Africa) A cloth.
(South Africa) A kopdoek: a kerchief or bandanna worn as a head covering.
doke
doke
noun
(UK, dialect) A dimple or dint.
drek
drek
noun
Alternative spelling of dreck
duke
duke
noun
(slang, usually in the plural) A fist.
A grand duke.
A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
The sovereign of a small state.
verb
(slang, transitive) To give cash to; to give a tip to.
(transitive, informal) To hit or beat with the fists.
dyke
dyke
noun
(dialect) A jetty; a pier.
(dialect) Any fence or hedge.
(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
(dialect) Any small body of water.
(dialect) Any watercourse.
(dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
(figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
(geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
(now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
(now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
(obsolete) A city wall.
(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
(slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
(slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
A beaver's dam.
A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
A raised causeway.
An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
verb
(transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
(transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
(transitive) To scour a watercourse.
(transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
(transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
(transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.