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Deck vs Heck - What's the difference?

deck | heck |

As an adjective deck

is thick.

As a proper noun heck is

a hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.

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

    heck

    English

    (wikipedia heck)

    Etymology 1

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (euphemistic) Hell.
    • What the heck are you doing?

    Noun

    (-)
  • (euphemistic) Hell.
    • You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
    Synonyms
    * See under hell.
    Derived terms
    * oh my heck

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Alternative forms

    * hack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bolt or latch of a door.
  • A rack for cattle to feed at.
  • A door, especially one partly of latticework.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  • (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  • A bend or winding of a stream.

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