different between deck vs garnish

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjan?. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

Noun

deck (plural decks)

1. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
2. (nautical) 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.

3. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
4. (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
5. (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.

   Synonym: library

6. (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
   • 2005, Richard Keeble, Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction (page 114)

     If there's a strapline or subdeck, write these after the main deck and don't use the same words.

7. 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.

8. (obsolete) A heap or store.
   • 1655, Philip Massinger, The Guardian, Act III, scene iii:

     A paper-blurrer, who on all occasions, / For all times, and all season, hath such trinkets / Ready in the deck

9. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
   • 2007, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of New Jersey (volume 188)

     Defendant placed the decks in his pocket and, after driving out of the city, gave one to Shore. While still in the car, Shore snorted half of the deck. When they returned to defendant's home, defendant handed Shore a second deck of heroin.

10. (slang) The floor.

    We hit the deck as bullets began to fly.

11. (theater) The stage.

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Verb

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

1. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
2. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.

   Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?

3. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English dekken, from Middle Dutch dekken (“to cover”), from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjan? (“to roof; cover”).

Verb

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

1. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3 Act III, Scene ii:

     And deck my body in gay ornaments, / And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.

   • 1919, William Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 39

     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.

2. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
   • 1700, John Dryden (tr.), “The Flower and the Leaf”:

     (now the dew with spangles decked the ground)

3. (transitive) To cover; to overspread.

Usage notes

• See deck out

Derived terms

• bedeck

Translations

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?k]

Verb

deck

1. singular imperative of decken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of decken

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English deck.

Noun

deck m (invariable)

1. tape deck

Luxembourgish

Verb

deck

1. second-person singular imperative of decken

English

Etymology

From Middle English garnischen, from Old French garniss-, stem of certain forms of the verb garnir, guarnir, warnir (“to provide, furnish, avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish”), from a conflation of Old Frankish *warnjan (“to refuse, deny”) and *warn?n (“warn, protect, prepare, beware, guard oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *warnijan? (“to worry, care, heed”) and Proto-Germanic *warn?n? (“to warn”); both from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to defend, protect, cover”). Cognate with Old English wiernan (“to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid, prevent from, avert”) and warnian (“to warn, caution, take warning, take heed, guard oneself against, deny”). More at warn.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????n??/

Verb

garnish (third-person singular simple present garnishes, present participle garnishing, simple past and past participle garnished)

1. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 253,^[2]

     And all within with flowres was garnished,

   • 1710, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 163, 25 April, 1710, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 165,^[3]

     […] as that admirable writer has the best and worst verses of any among our English poets, Ned Softly has got all the bad ones without book, which he repeats upon occasion, to shew his reading, and garnish his conversation.

   • 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 14,^[4]

     […] the whip […] was garnished with a massive horse’s head of plated metal.

2. (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.

   a dish garnished with parsley

3. (archaic) To furnish; to supply.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Job 26.13,^[5]

     By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, Part One, Chapter 3,^[6]

     […] the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home.

4. (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
5. (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
6. (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
   • 1966, Langston Hughes, “The Twenties: Harlem and Its Negritude” in Christopher C. De Santis (ed.), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 9, p. 473,

     When the editorial board of Fire met again, we did not plan a new issue, but emptied our pockets to help poor Thurman whose wages were being garnished weekly because he had signed for the printer’s bills.

Derived terms

• garnishee
• garnishment
• garnishor

Related terms

• garrison
• garment

Translations

Noun

garnish (plural garnishes)

1. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
2. Pewter vessels in general.
3. Something added for embellishment.

   Synonyms: decoration, ornament

   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 1, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 333,^[7]

     First Poets, all the World agrees,

     Write half to profit, half to please

     Matter and figure They produce;

     For Garnish This, and That for Use;

   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, Chapter 12,^[8]

     This hard-headed old Overreach approved of the sentimental song, as the suitable garnish for girls, and also as fundamentally fine, sentiment being the right thing for a song.

   • 1972, William Trevor, “The Grass Widows” in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, 1992, p. 228,^[9]

     There had been a semblance of chivalry in the attitude from which, at the beginning of their marriage, he had briefly regarded her; but forty-seven years had efficiently disposed of that garnish of politeness.

4. Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 6,^[10]

     So are you, sweet,

     Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.

5. (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
6. (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
7. (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
   • 1699, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al.,^[11]

     Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.

   • 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia, London: C. Cooke, 1793, Volume I, Chapter 3, p. 13,^[12]

     This person then […] acquainted him that it was the custom of the place for every prisoner, upon his first arrival there, to give something to the former prisoners to make them drink. This, he said, was what they called garnish; and concluded with advising his new customer to draw his purse upon the present occasion.

8. (US, slang) Cash.

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References

Further reading

• garnish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• garnish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• garnish at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Harings, rashing, sharing