dock

Meaning

Noun

1. 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. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

Verb

1. To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
2. To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
3. (informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
4. To cut off, bar, or destroy.

Verb

1. 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. To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
5. To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
6. To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

Verb

To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.

Synonyms

wharf

pier

quay

sorrel

port

harbour

jetty

bob

landing place

landing

anchor

⚓

harbor

shipyard

haven

moor

anchorage

dockyard

abridge

wharfage

seaport

tail

bobtail

marina

dry dock

deprive

basin

berth

low wall

bank

🏦

box

📦

curtail

crop

truncate

park

🏞️

dockage

docking

entrenchment

bridge

staithe

sour grass

loading dock

docking facility

platform

parking lot

parking space

petty

predate

prey

quayside

rain

🌧️

rationalise

rationalize

razee

reduce

sever

strip

stump

subtract

take away

take off

take up

taper

terminal

throttle

tie-up

join with

trim

violate

waterfront

weaken

wing

🪽

yard

come alongside

factor out

landing for boats

butt-joint

trim back

defendant’s seat

docking station

WARF

loading area

landingplace

common sorrel

tailhead

abutting joint

commercial docks

naval docks

scene-dock

Old Bridge

butted joint

end-to-end joint

alongside come

defendants’ bench/criminal dock

opposite joint

butt to butt

water terminal

quay shipside

accost

amputate

ax

axe

🪓

bate

bay

bring together

car park

cast anchor

chopping

chop up

clip

come in

couple

👫

cove

decrease

deduct

deplume

detract

disinvest

divest

docks

downsize

embarkation point

expense

exploit

ferry

⛴️

float

hold down

hook

🪝

hook up

hover

landing-stage

lessen

limit

lopping

mooring

moorings

muck

nick

nip

parking area

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɒk/

Etymology

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”)).