Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DOCK

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Definitions of DOCK

1. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
2. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
3. To join two moving items.
4. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
5. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
6. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
7. (theatre) Short for scene-dock.
8. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
9. (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
10. (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
11. (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
12. (US, rare, dated) A male given name or nickname.
13. A surname.
14. The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
15. A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
16. (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
17. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
18. (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
19. (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
20. (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
21. (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
22. The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
23. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
24. (GUI) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
25. An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
26. (intransitive, sex) To engage in docking; to insert the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant.
27. (transitive, GUI) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.

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Examples of Using DOCK in a Sentence

• The mission was flown to qualify the LM for lunar orbit operations in preparation for the first Moon landing by demonstrating its descent and ascent propulsion systems, showing that its crew could fly it independently, then rendezvous and dock with the CSM again, as would be required for the first crewed lunar landing.
• USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49), a Harpers Ferry class dock landing ship of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1995.
• Other names for sorrel include spinach dock and narrow-leaved dock ("dock" being a common name for the genus Rumex).
• Its original purpose was to serve as a dock for freighters, passenger ships, and indoor and outdoor recreation; events like expositions and pageants were held there.
• The most important sites are Lothal (the world's first dry dock), Dholavira (the fifth largest site), and Gola Dhoro (where 5 uncommon seals were found).
• At the end of the street is a dock on the East River; to the left are the luxury apartments, and to the right are the slums.
• USS Harrisburg (LPD-30), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship (as of Monday, December 6, 2021) is under construction.
• Porosomes are permanent cup-shaped lipoprotein structures at the cell plasma membrane, where secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse to release intra-vesicular contents from the cell.
• Ainger was born in Sheffield in 1949, and was educated at the Netherthorpe Grammar School in Staveley, Derbyshire, and after leaving education in 1967 moved to Milford Haven and became a dock worker at the Marine and Port Services of Pembroke Dock.
• The Devonport Leat is a leat in Devon constructed in the 1790s to carry fresh drinking water from the high ground of Dartmoor to the expanding dockyards at Plymouth Dock (which was renamed as Devonport, Devon on 1 January 1824).
• Economic focus shifted from mainstream farming produce for the City of London – through highly perishable goods production (market gardening), weaving, dock and building work and light industry – to a high proportion of commuters to city businesses, public sector/care sector roles, construction, courier businesses and home-working digital and creative industries.
• Brentford at the start of the 21st century attracted regeneration of its little-used warehouse premises and docks including the re-modelling of the waterfront to provide more economically active shops, townhouses and apartments, some of which comprises Brentford Dock.
• Mechanization of dock technology has altered the number of workers at the port, but Posey County is still the seventh-largest internal port in the United States, based on the tons of materials handled.
• Local entrepreneurs John and Frances French were the primary owners; between 1851 and 1900, the hotel and property were subject to a number of upgrades and related construction projects including a covered tramway to the summit of the mountain (first drawn by horse, then mechanized), a railroad from the base of the mountain to a steamboat dock on the Connecticut River, and the construction of a number of outbuildings and trails.
• with the town's historical dock, Ipswich Waterfront, known as the largest and most important dock in the Kingdom.
• During this time, the distribution of the terminals changed: The south dock and most of the International Terminal were now called T1, the rest of the International Terminal and Domestic Terminal were now called T2 and the north dock was called T3.
• The original depot received additions at least twice—an enclosed warehouse and open loading dock were added to the east, followed by racially segregated passenger waiting rooms on the west side.
• The community's dock, boat ramp, harbormaster's office and warehouse were completed in the late 1990s.
• A town dock provides access to the Eek River, which feeds into the Kuskokwim providing access to most surrounding villages by boat.
• Erosion of the tundra by the river has destroyed much of the area of the village, including the barge dock.

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