dock

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

darse

dock

quai

bassin

oseille

embarcadère

socle

port

retenir

banc des accusés

bassin de radoub

box des accusés

cale sèche

faire escale

manutention

rogner

rumex

accoster

se mettre à quai

accueillir

ancrer

⚓

docker

écourter

havre

queue

rade

Synonymes

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

👫

Traductions

doca

Dock

dok

darsena

rumex

banchina

Ampfer

docken

zuring

attraccare

andocken

αποβάθρα

anlegen

acedera

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɒk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: dokke

Hérité de ancien anglais: docce

Appartenant à flamand occidental: dokke

Appartenant à letton: duga

Hérité de moyen anglais: dok

Hérité de ancien anglais: *docce

Appartenant à frison occidental: dok

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Dokke

Appartenant à islandais: dokkur

Appartenant à lituanien: dvė̃kti

Appartenant à albanais: dak

Appartenant à sanskrit: धुक्षति

Appartenant à néerlandais: dok

Appartenant à allemand: Dock

Appartenant à danois: dok

Appartenant à suédois: docka

Appartenant à italien: doccia

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: docke

Appartenant à norvégien: dokk

Appartenant à islandais: dökk

Appartenant à suédois: dank

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: dogga

Appartenant à 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”)).

Phrases

Two people talking on a dock .

Deux personnes parlant sur un quai.