(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.
Keck
Definition:
(v. i.) To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit.
(n.) An effort to vomit; queasiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) An analysis of the results obtained with the use of the Keck and Kelly osteotomy in conjunction with resection of the osseous prominence is then performed on 18 such procedures.
(2) The enzymes have been purified and have been shown to differ in some of their molecular properties [Mett, H., Keck, W., Funk, A.
(3) Activation of vaccinia virus late gene transcription is dependent on DNA replication and the expression of three genes: A1L, A2L, and G8R (J. G. Keck, C. J. Baldick, Jr., and B. Moss, Cell 61:801-809, 1990).
(4) Finkelstein used the Mosfire (Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infra-red Exploration) instrument on the Keck telescope to survey 43 distant galaxies that had been glimpsed by the Hubble Space Telescope but never confirmed.
(5) When combined the two domains catalyze mannitol phosphorylation at the expense of phospho-HPr (van Weeghel, R. P., Meyer, G. H., Pas, H. H., Keck, W. H., and Robillard, G. T., Biochemistry in press).
(6) James Gauderman , professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) and his team, who have run the Children’s Health Study for two decades and who first identified a link between air pollution and impaired children’s lung function, report that as a result of the clean-up, today’s children can breathe more easily.
(7) Keck first drew attention to this entity in 1962, and was followed by Lam in the same year.
(8) The astronomers used the Keck and Gemini telescopes on the island, according to a study in the journal Science.
(9) Since Keck described the tarsal tunnel syndrome (TTS) in 1962, it has been one of the most frequently diagnosed of the entrapment neuropathies.
(10) The assignments were based on coupling constants taken from Keck et al.
(11) These two newly discovered supermassive black holes were found by analysing data from the Hubble Space Telescope and two of the biggest ground-based telescopes in the world, the Gemini North and Keck 2 facilities in Hawaii.
(12) Researchers detected the galaxy with a new infrared instrument that was fitted last year to the Keck telescope that sits on the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii.