dock

(Inglese)

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.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dɒk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: dokke

Ereditato da inglese antico: docce

Affine fiammingo occidentale: dokke

Affine lettone: duga

Ereditato da inglese medio: dok

Ereditato da inglese antico: *docce

Affine frisone occidentale: dok

Affine basso tedesco: Dokke

Affine islandese: dokkur

Affine lituano: dvė̃kti

Affine albanese: dak

Affine sanscrito: धुक्षति

Affine olandese: dok

Affine tedesco: Dock

Affine danese: dok

Affine svedese: docka

Affine italiano: doccia

Affine olandese medio: docke

Affine norvegese: dokk

Affine islandese: dökk

Affine svedese: dank

Affine tedesco antico alto: dogga

Affine 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”)).

Concetti

darsena

attraccare

banchina

dock

bacino

acetosa

molo

porto

romite

scalo

romice

entrare in bacino

inserire nell’alloggiamento di espansione

porticciolo

banco degli imputati

ancorare

⚓

mozzare

sinonimi

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

👫

Frasi

Two people talking on a dock .

Due persone che parlano su un molo.