dock
nounEtymology
A dock (etymology 3, noun sense 1, etymology 3, noun sense 2) for cruise ships A laptop docking (etymology 3, noun sense 5) station A GUI dock (etymology 3, noun sense 6) on Linux From Early Modern English meaning "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from either Dutch dok (“dock, wharf”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, wharf”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Danish dok, Dutch dok, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Low German Dock, Swedish docka. Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”), making dock a doublet of douche and duct. An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic or Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk, dökð (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”); compare Icelandic dökk, Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”). If so, this would make dock a doublet of dank.
Definitions
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to…
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.
- And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […]
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
The fleshy root of an animal's tail
The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
- The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock
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The buttocks or anus.
- And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.
A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail
To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
To reduce (wages)
To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- Her wages were docked by ten dollars.
- The team have been docked six points at Paris 2024 and Priestman received a one-year football ban from world governing body Fifa.
To reduce the wages of (a person).
- They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.
To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- to dock an entail
To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port
A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
The body of water next to and around a pier.
The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- coffee dock
A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the…
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.
A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and…
A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
An act or instance of docking
An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
Ellipsis of scene-dock.
To land at a harbour.
To join two moving items.
- to dock spacecraft
To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one…
In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it…
To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.
Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
A male given name or nickname.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- antonymundock
Derived
bloody dock, butterdock, candock, curled dock, dock leaf, docklike, dock pudding, dooryard dock, elf-dock, northern dock, patience dock, prairie dock, red-veined dock, spatterdock, waterdock, wood dock, yellow dock, airdock, balance dock, Barry Dock, cattle dock, dock connector, dock door, docker, dockhand, dockie, dockization, dockize, dockland, docklands, dockless, dockman, dockmaster, dockmistress, dockominium, dockside, dock walloper, dock walloping, dock warrant, dock worker · +22 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at dock. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at dock. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at dock
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA