docking

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of dock
2. (transitive) culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry.

Noun

1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
2. The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
3. The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
4. (slang, vulgar) The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
5. A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

dock

• Noun
• Verb
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Conceptos

acoplamiento

Sinónimos

dock

tying up

moorage

dockage

link

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lopping

rendezvous

truncate

butt-joint

abutting joint

butted joint

end-to-end joint

opposite joint

chopping

butt to butt

connection

curtailing

docking unit

Traducciones

amarrage

accostage

اقتران؛ التحام

amarratge

ancoratge

amarrament

atracada

Ankopplung

Kopplung

landend

Andocken

Docking

attelage

arrimage

ligotage

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: dockyng

In summary

From dock + -ing.