dock

(Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

Verb

1. (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
2. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
3. (informal, transitive) To reduce the wages of (a person).
4. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
5. (transitive) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
2. To join two moving items.
3. To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
4. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) 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.
5. (transitive) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
6. (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɒk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: dokke

Geërf van Old English: docce

Verwante met Vlaams: dokke

Verwante met Letties: duga

Geërf van Middle English: dok

Geërf van Old English: *docce

Verwante met Fries: dok

Verwante met Nederduits: Dokke

Verwante met Yslands: dokkur

Verwante met Litaus: dvė̃kti

Verwante met Albanees: dak

Verwante met Sanskrit: धुक्षति

Verwante met Nederlands: dok

Verwante met Duits: Dock

Verwante met Deens: dok

Verwante met Sweeds: docka

Verwante met Italiaans: doccia

Verwante met Middle Dutch: docke

Verwante met Noors: dokk

Verwante met Yslands: dökk

Verwante met Sweeds: dank

Verwante met Old High German: dogga

Verwante met Middle Low German: docke

In summary

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”)).

Sinonieme

wharf

pier

quay

sorrel

port

harbour

jetty

bob

harbor

anchor

⚓

landing place

landing

haven

anchorage

dockyard

moor

shipyard

bobtail

tail

wharfage

seaport

dry dock

abridge

marina

deprive

box

📦

curtail

crop

staithe

berth

low wall

sour grass

truncate

docking facility

entrenchment

park

🏞️

docking

platform

dockage

bridge

basin

loading dock

bank

🏦

deplume

deduct

decrease

axe

🪓

hold down

cove

couple

👫

Sinne

Two people talking on a dock .