dock
noun
[ dɒk ]
• an enclosed area of water in a port for the loading, unloading, and repair of ships.
• "the boat nosed up to a dock"
Similar:
harbour,
marina,
waterfront,
port,
anchorage,
wharf,
quay,
pier,
jetty,
landing stage,
dockyard,
boatyard,
hithe,
moorage,
harbourage,
• a device in which a laptop, smartphone, or other mobile device may be placed for charging, providing access to a power supply and to peripheral devices or auxiliary features; a docking station.
dock
verb
• (of a ship) come into a dock and tie up at a wharf.
• "the ship docked at Southampton"
Opposite:
put to sea,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German docke, of unknown origin.
dock
verb
• deduct (something, especially an amount of money or a point in a game).
• "the agency enforce payments by docking money from the father's salary"
Similar:
deduct,
subtract,
remove,
debit,
discount,
take off,
take away,
knock off,
minus,
reduce,
cut,
cut back,
decrease,
lessen,
diminish,
• cut short (an animal's tail).
• "their tails were docked"
Similar:
cut off,
cut short,
shorten,
crop,
lop,
prune,
truncate,
remove,
amputate,
detach,
disconnect,
sever,
hack off,
chop off,
take off,
dissever,
dock
noun
• the solid bony or fleshy part of an animal's tail, excluding the hair.
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps related to Frisian dok ‘bunch, ball (of string etc.)’ and German Docke ‘doll’. The original noun sense was ‘the solid part of an animal's tail’, whence the verb sense ‘cut short an animal's tail’, later generalized to ‘reduce, deduct’.
dock
noun
• the enclosure in a criminal court where a defendant stands or sits.
• "the nine others in the dock face a combination of charges"
Origin:
late 16th century: probably originally slang and related to Flemish dok ‘chicken coop, rabbit hutch’, of unknown origin.
dock
noun
• a coarse weed of temperate regions, with inconspicuous greenish or reddish flowers. The leaves are used to relieve nettle stings.
Origin:
Old English docce, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dialect dokke .
