Sick vs Deck - What's the difference?

sick | deck |

As adjectives the difference between sick and deck

is that sick is in poor health while deck is thick.

As a noun sick

is sick people in general as a group.

As a verb sick

is to vomit or sick can be (rare).

sick

English

(wikipedia sick)

Etymology 1

Middle English sek, sik, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

In poor health.

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(colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.

(colloquial) In bad taste.

Having an urge to vomit.

(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome.

In poor condition.

(agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

Tired of or annoyed by something.

Synonyms

* (in poor health) ill, not well, poorly (British), sickly, unwell * (mentally unstable) disturbed, twisted, warped. * (having an urge to vomit) nauseated, nauseous * rad, wicked * See also

Antonyms

* (in poor health) fit, healthy, well * (excellent) crap, naff, uncool

Derived terms

* airsick * be sick * brainsick * carsick * dogsick * fall sick * heartsick * homesick * iron-sick, iron sick, ironsick * junk sick * lovesick * nailsick, nail sick, nailsick * seasick * sick and tired * sick and twisted * sick as a dog * sick bag * sickbay * sickbed * sick building syndrome * sick day * sicken * sickening * sickhouse * sickie * sickish * sick joke * sickly * sickness * sick note * sick pay * sick puppy * sicko * sickout * sickroom * sick to one's stomach * soulsick * thoughtsick

Noun

(-)

Sick people in general as a group.

We have to cure the sick .

(colloquial) vomit.

He lay there in a pool of his own sick .

Synonyms

* (vomit) See

Verb

(en verb)

To vomit.

:I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.

(obsolete) To fall sick; to sicken.

* circa 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2 :

Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.

Etymology 2

Verb

(en verb)

(rare)

* 1920 , James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"

"Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick' 'em, Wapi—'''sick''' 'em—'''sick''' 'em—' sick 'em!"

* 1938 , Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ISBN 141915222X, page 125,

When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.

* 1957 , , 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,

"...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."

* 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman , University of Calgary Press, ISBN 1552380408, page 82,

Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.

1000 English basic words

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