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dock

Pronunciation: /dɒk/

The English word “dock” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
  3. The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
  4. The buttocks or anus.
  5. A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
  6. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
  7. The body of water next to and around a pier.
  8. The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
  9. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
  10. 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.
  11. A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
  12. An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.

verb

  1. To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
  2. To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
  3. To reduce the wages of (a person).
  4. To cut off, bar, or destroy.
  5. To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
  6. To land at a harbour.
  7. To join two moving items.
  8. To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.

Etymology

From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).

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