different between ornament vs deck

English

Etymology

From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from orn?re, present active infinitive of I equip, adorn. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)n?m?nt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /???n?m?nt/, enPR: ôr?n?-m?nt
• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)n?m?nt/, /???(?)n??m?nt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /???n?m?nt/, /???n??m?nt/, enPR: ôr?n?-m?nt, ôr?n?-m?nt'

Noun

ornament (countable and uncountable, plural ornaments)

2. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
3. A Christmas tree decoration.
4. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
5. (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
6. (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)

Derived terms

• ornamental

Related terms

• ornate
• ornamentation
• adorn
• suborn

Translations

Verb

ornament (third-person singular simple present ornaments, present participle ornamenting, simple past and past participle ornamented)

2. To decorate.

4. To add to.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (decorate): adorn, bedeck, decorate, embellish, trim

Translations

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ornamentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o?.n??ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ur.n??men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?.na?ment/

Noun

ornament m (plural ornaments)

1. ornament

Derived terms

• ornamental

Further reading

• “ornament” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ornament” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ornament” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ornament” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ornamentum

Noun

ornament n (definite singular ornamentet, indefinite plural ornament or ornamenter, definite plural ornamenta or ornamentene)

1. an ornament

Derived terms

• ornamentikk

References

• “ornament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ornament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ornamentum

Noun

ornament n (definite singular ornamentet, indefinite plural ornament, definite plural ornamenta)

1. an ornament

Derived terms

• ornamentikk

References

• “ornament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin ?rn?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?na.m?nt/

Noun

ornament m inan

1. (architecture, art, typography) ornament, adornment
2. (music) ornament

Declension

Further reading

• ornament in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ornament in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French ornament, from Latin ornamentum.

Noun

ornament n (plural ornamente)

1. ornament

Declension

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.

Derived terms

Translations

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.

Translations

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