Dictionary Definition
dock
Noun
1 an enclosure in a court of law where the
defendant sits during the trial
2 any of certain coarse weedy plants with long
taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine [syn:
sorrel, sour
grass]
3 a platform built out from the shore into the
water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
[syn: pier, wharf, wharfage]
4 a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded
or unloaded [syn: loading
dock]
5 landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships
are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in
or out; "the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late" [syn:
dockage, docking
facility]
6 the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as
distinguished from the hair
Verb
1 come into dock; "the ship docked" [ant:
undock]
2 deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
3 deduct from someone's wages
5 haul into a dock; "dock the ships" [ant:
undock]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A body of water between two piers or wharves.
- (of a ship) Being in the harbour area.
- The action of joining two items together.
- The action of reducing wages.
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- A plant in the genus Rumex
- Part of a courtroom where accused sits.
- a section of a hotel or restaurant, as in coffee dock
- slang Scots (also doc) the buttocks or anus.
Translations
A body of water between two piers or wharves
- Hebrew:
(of a ship) Being in the harbour area
The action of joining two items together
The action of reducing wages
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant
(slang, also doc) A documentary or
docudrama
part of a courtroom where accused sits
- Czech: lavice obžalovaných
a section of a hotel or restaurant, as in coffee
dock
A male given name
Verb
Related terms
Translations
To land at a harbour
- Hebrew:
To join two moving items
To reduce wages; to deduct
To cut off a section of an animal's tail
- German: kupieren
Extensive Definition
Dock may refer to:
In transportation
- Dock
(maritime), an area of water for building or repairing or
loading and unloading ships or ferries
- Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
- Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
- Ferry slip, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat
- Pontoon, a buoyant device, used to support docks or floating bridges
- Dry dock, a narrow basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
- Loading dock or Cargo bay, an unloading area for trucks to deliver cargo
- Jetty
- Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman
- Space rendezvous, if it includes docking
In natural sciences
- Rumex, plants called docks and sorrels including narrow-leaf dock (Rumex mexicanus), curly dock or curled dock (Rumex crispus), broadleaf dock or butter dock (Rumex obtusifolius) and many other members of the Rumex genus
- Burdock, a group of biennial thistles
- Some other species of plants such as prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum, Silphium perfoliatum, Parthenium integrifolium),
- Docking (molecular), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other in a bimolecular complex
In computing
- Docking station, for a portable computer
- Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature
Other
- Docking (animal), the removal of part of an animal, often tail or ears
-
- Docking (dog) - the same practice restricted to dogs
- For use on humans, e.g. as corporal punishment, see Mutilation
- The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Docking (sexual practice), a sexual act performed between two men. Specifically, when one man pulls his foreskin over the head of another man's penis.
- The first level of the Heretic video game
- The place where the defendant stands in a British courtroom (see the layout of courts in Scotland) hence the expression "in the dock"
- Docking, Norfolk, a village in East Anglia, England
- Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren), a UK manga illustrator
See also
dock in German: Dock
dock in French: Dock
dock in Japanese: ドック
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
L, R, abbreviate, abridge, abscind, abstract, acting area, alight, amputate, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground,
annihilate, apron, apron stage, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, backstage, ban, band shell, bandstand, bank, bar, basement, basin, bay, berth, bin, board, bob, boil down, bonded warehouse,
bookcase, box, breakwater, bridge, brush, bulkhead, bunker, buttery, capsulize, cargo dock, cast
anchor, cauda, caudal
appendage, caudation,
cellar, chest, clip, closet, come to anchor, come to
land, compress,
condense, conservatory, contract, coulisse, court, courthouse, courtroom, crate, crib, crop, cue, cull, cupboard, curtail, cut, cut away, cut back, cut down,
cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, debark, debus, deplane, depository, depot, detrain, disembark, disemplane, dockage, dockyard, drawer, dressing room, drop
anchor, drop the hook, dry dock, dump, elide, eliminate, embankment, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, exchequer, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fantail, flies, fly floor, fly gallery,
foreshorten,
forestage, glory hole,
go ashore, godown,
greenroom, grid, gridiron, groin, hangar, harbor, harborage, haven, hold, housing, hutch, isolate, jetty, jury box, jutty, kedge, kedge off, knock off,
land, landing, landing place, landing
stage, lash, lash and tie,
lay anchor, levee,
library, lightboard, locker, lop, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, make a landfall, make
land, make port, marina,
mole, moor, moorings, mow, mutilate, nip, orchestra, orchestra pit,
pare, peel, performing area, pick out,
pier, pigtail, pit, poll, pollard, port, proscenium, proscenium stage,
protected anchorage, prune, put in, put into port,
quay, queue, rack, rattail, reach land, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, repertory, repository, reservoir, retrench, rick, road, roads, roadstead, root out, rule out,
seaport, seawall, set apart, set aside,
shave, shear, shed, shelf, shell, shipyard, shorten, slip, snub, stack, stack room, stage, stage left, stage right,
stamp out, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strike off,
strip, strip off, stub, stunt, sum up, summarize, supply base, supply
depot, switchboard,
synopsize, tail, tailpiece, take in, take off,
take out, tank, telescope, the boards, tie up,
town hall, town house, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, trim, truncate, unboat, vat, vault, warehouse, wharf, wine cellar, wings, wipe out, witness box,
witness stand