Dock

Noun

 * 1) Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially the common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
 * , II.xi:
 * And vnder neath him his courageous steed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks [...].
 * 1) A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

Noun

 * 1) The fleshy root of an animal's tail, which remains after the tail has been docked.
 * 2)  The buttocks or anus.

Verb

 * 1) To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
 * 2) To reduce (wages); to deduct.

Noun

 * 1) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
 * 2) The body of water between two piers or wharves.
 * 3) A section of a hotel or restaurant, as in coffee dock
 * 4)  A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
 * 5)  A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
 * 6) An act of docking; joining two things together.

Verb

 * 1)  To land at a harbour.
 * 2) To join two moving items.
 * 3)  To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.

Noun

 * 1) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

Adjectives for Dock
shipping; humming; dingy; ancient; wet; neat.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
dokke:, from docce:, cognate with Old Danish ådokke ‘water-dock’, Dutch (West Flemish) dokke:, dokkebladeren:bladeren ‘coltsfoot, butterbur’; akin to Latvian duga: ‘scum, slime on water’.

Etymology 2
dok:, from -docca: (as in fingirdoccana (genitive pl.) ‘finger muscles’), from  (compare West Frisian dok: ‘bunch, ball (twine)’, Low German Dokke: ‘bundle of straw’, Icelandic dokkur: ‘stumpy tail’), from - ‘to spin, shake’ (cf. Lithuanian dvekti: ‘to breathe, wheeze’, dvãkas: ‘breath’, Albanian dak: ‘big ram’, Sanskrit undefined: ‘to blow’).

Etymology 3
From dock: ‘mud channel’, from  docke: ‘channel’ (modern dok: ‘lock (canal)’), from Old Italian undefined: ‘conduit, canal’ or  ducta:, ductus: ‘id.’. More at douche and duct.

Etymology 4
Originally criminal slang; from or akin to Dutch (Flemish) dok: 'cage, hutch'.

Noun

 * Bulgarian: лапад
 * Czech:


 * Finnish:
 * Irish: copóg


 * Bulgarian: репей
 * Czech:


 * Dutch: klit
 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: орязвам
 * Czech:


 * Finnish: alentaa


 * Bulgarian: подрязвам
 * Finnish: typistää


 * German:

Noun

 * Basque: nasa
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,


 * French: darse
 * Hebrew: מעגן
 * Hungarian: dokk
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: liittäminen,


 * Russian: стыковка


 * Finnish: telakka
 * French:


 * Irish: leaba nasctha, stáisiún nasctha

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: kiinnittyä


 * Hebrew:


 * Finnish: telakoida, telakoitua

Noun

 * Bulgarian: подсъдима скамейка
 * Czech:


 * Dutch: beklaagdenbank
 * Finnish:

Related terms

 * in the dock

Adverb

 * 1) though, however, still, nevertheless
 * Om jag än måste dö med dig, så skall jag dock förvisso icke förneka dig.
 * Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee (Matthew 26:35)
 * Dock, natt skall icke förbliva där nu ångest råder.
 * Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation (Isaiah 9:1)
 * Man river åt sig till höger och förbliver dock hungrig, man tager för sig till vänster och bliver dock ej mätt
 * And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied (Isaiah 9:20)