Deck
A deck is a floor or level in a vehicle, especially a ship (also used to refer to a level in a sandwich), or, in residential architecture, an outdoor floor suspended over the ground and attached to a house, typically connected by a sliding door or French doors."Deck" can also be used as a colloquial verb, meaning to strike (of a person), knocking to the floor.
A deck, or pack, is a set of cards.
A playing cards deck is typically a fifty-two set, composed of spot cards, one (known as an Ace) through ten, and face cards, a Jack, Queen, and King, in four suits: Spades, Hearts, Clubs, and Diamonds. It is used for playing such games as poker, hearts, solitaire, gin rummy, bridge, and other card games.
A Tarot deck is a seventy-eight card set, composed of a minor arcana, containing spot cards ace through ten and the face cards Page, Knight, Queen, and King in the suits Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles, and a major arcana, containing the Fool, the Magician, the High Priestess, the Emperor, the Empress, the Hierophant, the Star, the Moon, the Sun, the Lovers, the Chariot, Strength, the Hermit, the Wheel of Fortune, Justice, the Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, the Devil, the Tower, the World, and Judgment. Tarot decks are used for prognostication, diversion, and games.
Another kind of deck is that used in trading card games, in which each player designs and assembles his own deck from the pool of cards that have been released for the game in question; some games of this kind are , PokÃÂémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh.