dock

(Engels)

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.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/dɒk/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: dokke

Overgenomen van Oudengels: docce

Verwant aan West-Vlaams: dokke

Verwant aan Lets: duga

Overgenomen van Middelengels: dok

Overgenomen van Oudengels: *docce

Verwant aan Fries: dok

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: Dokke

Verwant aan IJslands: dokkur

Verwant aan Litouws: dvė̃kti

Verwant aan Albanees: dak

Verwant aan Sanskriet: धुक्षति

Verwant aan Nederlands: dok

Verwant aan Duits: Dock

Verwant aan Deens: dok

Verwant aan Zweeds: docka

Verwant aan Italiaans: doccia

Verwant aan Middelnederlands: docke

Verwant aan Noors: dokk

Verwant aan IJslands: dökk

Verwant aan Zweeds: dank

Verwant aan Oudhoogduits: dogga

Verwant aan 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”)).

Concepten

dok

zuring

dokken

💸

haven

klaverzuring

klit

koppelen

👫

op een zijspoor zetten

stallen

haventje

aanlegplaats

beklaagdenbank

couperen

kaai

kade

Synoniemen

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

👫

Vertalingen

darse

Dock

doca

dock

darsena

bassin

quai

rumex

oseille

Ampfer

docken

andocken

αποβάθρα

anlegen

banchina

Zinnen

Two people talking on a dock .

Twee mensen praten over een dok.