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Upper Deck

Definition: Upper Deck

Upper Deck

Noun

1. A higher deck.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Upper Deck

English words defined with "upper deck": Beakhead, boat deck, bridge, bridge deckdeck-house, Dousing-chockflight deckhurricane decklanding deckPoop deckquarterdeck, Quarter-deckRazeeshelter deck, Spar deckThe boomsweather deck. (references)
Specialty definitions using "upper deck": molded depthone and one-half deck bus. (references)
Etymologies containing "upper deck": OrlopTexas. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Upper Deck

DomainTitle

Books

  • Baseball Cards: Catalog and Price Guide of Topps, Bowman, Donruss, Fleer, Leaf, O-Pee-Cee, Score, and Upper Deck 1993 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Upper Deck

Photos:
Upper Deck

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Photo Album: Upper Deck

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In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Starboard side of the METEOR and a view looking aft on the upper deck. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Two of the ship's officers seated in folding chairs on the upper deck, in the James River, Virginia, 1864-65. Photographed by Matthew Brady. Note Hunchback's "walking beam" mechanism at right and 12-pounder Dahlgren smooth-bore howitzer in the background. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed on the Western Rivers in 1862-63. Note laundry drying on lines rigged from her mainmast, and awnings spread over her upper deck. Credit: NAVY.

Officers on the ship's upper deck, seen from a similar river steamer during the Civil War. Note fancy woodwork around the deck edge and pilothouse roof, bullet-proof metal plating and ship's number ("47") on the pilothouse, and smokestack brace. Credit: NAVY.

General plan published in 1862, showing the ship's inboard profile, plan view below the upper deck and hull cross sections through the engine and boiler spaces. Credit: NAVY.

President Woodrow Wilson and wife climbing ship's ladder to upper deck during their visit to Tacoma, Washington on September 18, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress.

Looking aloft to the upper deck of the Hudson River ferry. New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

On board S.S. Athenia. Part of the upper deck. Credit: Library of Congress.

Betsy Head Play Center. Down from upper deck. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bertram F. Willcox, residence in Pound Ridge, New York. Upper deck. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Upper Deck

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

upper deck

480

upper deck card

36

upper deck.com

36

upper deck baseball card

34

upper deck trading card

21

upper deck hockey card

12

upper deck authenticated

10

upper deck basketball card

9

upper deck golf card

5

upper deck sports card

4

upper deck football card

3

upper deck authentics

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Upper Deck

Language Translations for "upper deck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

yläkansi. (various references)

   

French

  

pont supérieur. (various references)

   

German

  

Oberdeck. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

上"板 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じょうか"ぱ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eruppay eckday

   

Swedish

  

överdäck. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Upper Deck

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-k-p-p-r-u"

-1 letter: puckered.

-2 letters: peruked, prepuce.

-3 letters: creped, cupped, cupper, decker, ducker, kepped, pecked, pecker, perdue, perked, peruke, pucker, pureed, recked, reduce, repped, rucked, upkeep.

-4 letters: ceder, cered, creed, creek, creep, crepe, crude, cured, deuce, dreck, drupe, duper, educe, kreep, perdu, preed, prude, puked, puree, rupee, upped, upper.

-5 letters: cede, cepe, cere, crud, cued, cuke, curd, cure.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Upper Deck


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 70 70 65 72      44 65 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000100 01100101 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#112 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#68 &#101 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 0070 0065 0072      0044 0065 0063 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5582827184238716977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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