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Deck vs Harbour - What's the difference?

deck | harbour |

As an adjective deck

is thick.

As a noun harbour is

(obsolete|uncountable) shelter, refuge.

As a verb harbour is

to provide shelter or refuge for.

deck

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  • (lb) 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.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • A pack or set of playing cards.
  • A set of slides for a presentation.
  • *2011 , David Kroenke, Donald Nilson, Office 365 in Business
  • *:Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it.
  • (lb) A heap or store.
  • *(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
  • *:Whohath such trinkets / Ready in the deck .
  • Derived terms
    * afterdeck * below decks * flight deck * foredeck * forward deck * lower deck * poopdeck * quarterdeck * rear deck * stern deck

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  • (slang) In a fight or brawl, to knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
  • Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance
  • * 1919 ,
  • They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it. The false emphasis with which they try to deck their worthless thoughts blunts their susceptibilities.
  • * Bible, Job xl. 10
  • Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Deck my body in gay ornaments.
  • To decorate (something).
  • * Dryden
  • The dew with spangles decked the ground.
  • To cover; to overspread.
  • * Milton
  • to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky
    Usage notes
    * See deck out

    harbour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * herberwe (obsolete) * herborough (obsolete) * harbor (now US)

    Noun

    (wikipedia harbour)
  • (en noun) (British, Canada)
  • (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
  • A place of shelter or refuge.
  • The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
  • (obsolete) A house of the zodiac.
  • * Late 14th century: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  • A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
  • The city has an excellent natural harbour .
  • (astrology) The mansion of a heavenly body.
  • A mixing box for materials in glass-working.
  • Derived terms

    * harbourage * harbourmaster * unharboured

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide shelter or refuge for.
  • The docks, which once harboured''' tall ships, now '''harbour only petty thieves.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
  • * Rowe
  • Let not your gentle breast harbour one thought of outrage.
  • To accept, as with a belief.
  • That scientist harbours the belief that God created humans.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.}}

    See also

    * dock * haven