dock

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Conceptes

moll

port

rebaixar

amarrar

cua tallada

atracar

desembarcador

disminuir

Sinònims

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

👫

Traduccions

darse

Dock

doca

dok

dock

darsena

quai

rumex

bassin

attraccare

αποβάθρα

banchina

anlegen

Ampfer

andocken

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dɒk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: dokke

Heretat de anglès antic: docce

Cognat amb flamenc occidental: dokke

Cognat amb letó: duga

Heretat de anglès mitjà: dok

Heretat de anglès antic: *docce

Cognat amb frisó occidental: dok

Cognat amb baix alemany: Dokke

Cognat amb islandès: dokkur

Cognat amb lituà: dvė̃kti

Cognat amb albanès: dak

Cognat amb sànscrit: धुक्षति

Cognat amb neerlandès: dok

Cognat amb alemany: Dock

Cognat amb danès: dok

Cognat amb suec: docka

Cognat amb italià: doccia

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: docke

Cognat amb noruec: dokk

Cognat amb islandès: dökk

Cognat amb suec: dank

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: dogga

Cognat amb 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”)).

Frases

Two people talking on a dock .