dock

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

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

👫

Traducións

darse

Dock

doca

dok

dock

darsena

bassin

quai

rumex

oseille

andocken

Ampfer

αποβάθρα

anlegen

docken

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/dɒk/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: dokke

Herdado de Old English: docce

Relativo a Vlaams: dokke

Relativo a letón: duga

Herdado de Middle English: dok

Herdado de Old English: *docce

Relativo a frisón occidental: dok

Relativo a baixo alemán: Dokke

Relativo a islandés: dokkur

Relativo a lituano: dvė̃kti

Relativo a albanés: dak

Relativo a sánscrito: धुक्षति

Relativo a neerlandés: dok

Relativo a alemán: Dock

Relativo a dinamarqués: dok

Relativo a sueco: docka

Relativo a italiano: doccia

Relativo a Middle Dutch: docke

Relativo a noruegués: dokk

Relativo a islandés: dökk

Relativo a sueco: dank

Relativo a Old High German: dogga

Relativo a 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 .