(v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
(v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
(v.) 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.
(v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
(v.) The roof of a passenger car.
(v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
(v.) A heap or store.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(2) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
(3) Over on the smaller boat, Mbalo remembers one of the two crew members then descending to the lower decks.
(4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(5) In Streatham, south London, for example, one user is offering her garden for £20 a night – and there are even deck chairs provided.
(6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(7) Altogether 23% of deck officers serving throughout the study and 43% of engine-room ratings had one or more absences.
(8) Open daily noon-1am The Hudson Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idiosyncratically decked out in antique bric-a-brac, this busy, multistorey cafe-bar and music venue has one of Belfast’s most comprehensive craft beer ranges.
(9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(10) Christina was killed in a random attack on the top deck of a bus in Birmingham as she travelled to school.
(11) If ergonomic adaptation of the flight deck is impossible, anthropometric limits for pilot selection have to be employed.
(12) Thus, with the qualifications that college students were tested instead of pilots and that they performed monocular laboratory tasks imstead of binocular flight-deck task, it is concluded that 24-h rhythms in accommodation responses need not be considered in setting visual standards for flight-deck task.
(13) Use of the various areas of the pens was determined during a 24-h observation and by a videotape recording of the double-decked pens during the daylight hours.
(14) They are stunned beside their tank, a few seconds out of the water, rather than hauled out of the sea by net to die on a trawler deck.
(15) "With those stakes, the response must be all hands on deck.
(16) Decked in red shirts, the handful of supporters – mostly relatives – have tried to keep up the pressure with daily protests.
(17) Or it takes her much longer to shuffle the deck of cards than you thought."
(18) They pushed us aside and ordered us to lie flat out on the deck.
(19) The triple-decked and sequentially produced components of the mammillary system may arise from separate neuroepithelial sites.
(20) Its giant playing area for handball and volleyball is now decked out with campbeds.
Flemish
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.
(n.) The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of 28 general practitioners (GPs) from the Flemish part of Belgium collected data from 702 hypertensive patients.
(2) The strikes “without a doubt put communitarian peace in danger,” Hendrik Bogaert, a Flemish Christian Democrat MP, told Le Soir.
(3) He describes it as "a sexual revolution: a young Catalan man meets a Flemish girl – they fall in love, they get married and they become European, as do their children."
(4) The Aegon move comes a day after the Belgian government made a €3.5bn loan to Flemish bank KBC, which has been forced to write down more structured products and warned it would lose almost €1bn in the third quarter.
(5) The president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, defended Belgium, telling the Flemish-language daily De Standaard: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
(6) A task force of data regulators from Belgium, France, Spain and Italy has been set up to look at Facebook’s privacy practices, while the Flemish, Dutch and European parliaments have also called for closer looks at the company.
(7) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(8) In an attempt to develop an animal model of enteric microsporidiosis, adult (5 to 6 months old) male Flemish Giant rabbits from a closed New York colony were administered 5 x 10(3), 5 x 10(5), and 5 x 10(7) Encephalitozoon cuniculi per rectum.
(9) Flemish instructors were less experienced than french instructors in CPR teaching (greater than 25 courses: FI 27%, Fr 41%).
(10) This means that either the matter is under reported at the national level or there is a real problem in the Flemish part of the country.
(11) I call it a sexual revolution: a young Catalan man meets a Flemish girl – they fall in love, they get married and they become European, as do their children.
(12) Market data on 1,315 rabbits from 201 litters from Californian (CAL), New Zealand White (NZW), CAL X NZW and NZW X CAL dams bred to CAL, NZW and Flemish Giant sires were subjected to multiple regression and path analyses.
(13) De Wever, leading his New Flemish Alliance, is regarded as the most popular politician in Belgium.
(14) Most predictable choice for technical challenge Danish pastry Click here for a Danish marzipan ring cake recipe Belgium The Flemish show De Meesterbakker ("The Master Baker") really needs a visit from 60 Minute Makeover.
(15) Inside Manchester’s sprawling town hall, Ford Madox Brown’s sequence of huge murals celebrates the city’s triumphant progress, from its origins as a Roman fort by way of the arrival of the first Flemish weavers to the building of the Bridgewater canal.
(16) In a population of 27 flemish newborns with subgaleal bleeding encountered within a period of 6 years, we studied the obstetrical, clinical and radiological data.
(17) The advantages of the BBC were verified through its implantation in the tibia of five young adult Flemish Giant rabbits and the serial collection of osseous samples.
(18) The lopsided nature of industrial action is not new to Belgium, but is seen as creating more tensions than before, because the Flemish separatists, the N-VA (New Flemish Alliance), are now the largest party in government.
(19) Coming from the other direction on the famed Avenida Paulista, Flemish-speaking fans were loudly looking for lunch.
(20) This makes for a very pretty series, because it turns out Ian Fleming was a great Flemish master of dickheadery.