Wreck vs Deck - What's the difference?

wreck | deck |

As a noun wreck

is something or someone that has been ruined.

As a verb wreck

is to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

As an adjective deck is

thick.

wreck

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something or someone that has been ruined.

He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.

The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

* Cowper

To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.

An event in which something is damaged through collision.

* Addison

the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds

* Spenser

Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck , both of herself and goods.

* J. R. Green

Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.

(legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.

(Bouvier)

Synonyms

* crash * ruins

Derived terms

* shipwreck

Verb

(en verb)

To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

He wrecked the car in a collision.

That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!

* Shakespeare

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked .

To ruin or dilapidate.

(Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.

To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

* Daniel

Weak and envied, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* build * construct * make * produce

Derived terms

* bewreck * wrecker * wreckage

References

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