Deck and Attach

noun

• Any of various platforms built into a vessel.
• Street name for a packet of illegal drugs.
• A pack of 52 playing cards.
  • synonyms: pack of cards, deck of cards
• A porch that resembles the deck on a ship.

verb

• Be beautiful to look at.
  • usage: "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
  • synonyms: adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify
• Decorate.
  • usage: "deck the halls with holly"
  • synonyms: bedight, bedeck
• Knock down with force.
  • usage: "He decked his opponent"
  • synonyms: coldcock, dump, knock down, floor

• (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.t.) To cover; to overspread.
• (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.t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
• (v.) A heap or store.
• (v.t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
• (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
• (n.) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.

Deck refers to the orders held by a floor broker. Often, separate orders are written on individual cards or tickets and the collective amount is a' Deck'.

verb

• Cause to be attached.
• Be attached; be in contact with.
• Become attached.
  • usage: "The spider's thread attached to the window sill"
• Create social or emotional ties.
  • usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
  • synonyms: bind, tie, bond
• Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority.
  • usage: "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
  • synonyms: impound, sequester, confiscate, seize

• (v.t.) To take, seize or lay hold of.
• (v.i.) To adhere; to be attached.
• (v.t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
• (v.t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company or ship.
• (v.i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
• (v.t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
• (n.) An attachment.
• (v.t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
• (v.t.) To bind, fasten, tie or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue or the like.

(DoD) The placement of units or personnel in an organization where such placement is relatively temporary.
(DoD) The detailing of individuals to specific functions where such functions are secondary or relatively temporary, e.g., attached for quarters and rations; attached for flying duty. See also assign.