off-deck adj. (said of software or digital media) coming from a remote server or system. Editorial Note: A deck is the software and information that ships with or is installed on a mobile phone, personal digital assistant, or other small wireless device. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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Default as a noun and default as a verb are the same word, with a familiar English stress shift: nouns often take first-syllable stress, while verbs often take second-syllable stress, as with the different pronunciations of record. A New York City...
A Navy vet recalls learning the slang term gundeck, meaning “to sign off on checks or reports without fully completing them.” A possible origin involves a ship’s gun deck, either as a place where sailors hid to avoid duties or where navigational...
This is a US definition, in Europe we refer to off-portal and on-portal