What's the difference between deck and standfirst?
Deck
Definition:
(v. t.) To cover; to overspread.
(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.
Standfirst
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The original article's standfirst said Mark Ravenhill was a Family Guy and Will & Grace writer.
(2) It mistakenly referred to National Rail instead of Network Rail in the standfirst.
(3) The standfirst (summary) incorrectly quoted Alex Jones talking about "1778 commencing again".
(4) • This article was changed on Tuesday 10 June 2014 to amend the standfirst.
(5) • The standfirst on this story was amended on 27 September 2013 to remove an incorrect reference to the UK information officer
(6) • The standfirst of this article was corrected on Sunday 15 December 2013 because it stated that Andy Murray was the first Briton to win Wimbledon since 1936.
(7) In the standfirst we mistakenly said the assault had taken place in New York when it was in fact Washington.
(8) The standfirst in the original said "over half of Britain's schools" where over half of England's was meant.
(9) • The standfirst of this article was changed on 7 March 2016 to better reflect the content of the story.
(10) An editing error in the standfirst suggested that the world population would grow to 9 million by 2050.
(11) The standfirst of this article was modified on 14 October 2015 to remove ambiguity.
(12) But 48 hours with Mrs Merkel and he’s already repeatedly committing to open door immigration again.” • The standfirst on this article was amended on 8 January 2015 to better reflect the story.
(13) It originally said there were 250 evictions every day in 2015 in the standfirst.
(14) • The standfirst on this article was corrected on 12 July 2013; F-16 jets, not F-14s, were supplied to Egypt.
(15) The standfirst (summary) of the original incorrectly stated that photographs could could fetch up to £50,000.
(16) • This article was originally published by the Birmingham Post , where Bill Drummond is writing a weekly column as part of his three-month residency at Eastside Projects, Digbeth • The standfirst of this article was amended on Friday 9 May 2014 to more accurately reflect the piece
(17) The standfirst of the original incorrectly stated that the shooting happened at a California health club, instead of an office Christmas party for employees of San Bernardino County health department.
(18) • This article was amended on 21 June 2012 to remove a misplaced apostrophe in the standfirst.
(19) Someone has to be in control of it because if not the strongest will take over.” This article was amended on 3 April to modify the headline and standfirst.
(20) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.