[
UK
/dˈɒk/
]
[ US /ˈdɑk/ ]
[ US /ˈdɑk/ ]
VERB
-
maneuver into a dock
dock the ships -
come into dock
the ship docked - remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- deduct from someone's wages
NOUN
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
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landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late - a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
How To Use dock In A Sentence
- If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
- The early commercial pea crops weren't sown in rows like home gardens, but were planted over the whole paddock and required a great deal of bending over to harvest the sweet green pods.
- Construction here would include offices, retail and hotels with the objective of integrating the docklands with the city centre and extending its functions to the east.
- Then, as they approached the docks, the diggers stared in awe at the remains of the once-mighty Imperial Japanese Navy.
- The software is also a great customization solution for those who would like to alter the look and feel of the Finder, Dock and login window, making it easy to prebind and re-prebind their entire system or selected folders, run cron scripts, change startup mode and language, force empty trash, update "whatis," locate databases, and so on. Softpedia News - Global
- Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match.
- The layout of the enclosures, paddocks, and yards suggests an emphasis on stock-raising.
- Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
- He stopped the seamen and dock workers joining the strike, but he did not take too hard a line.
- In June another record will be set when five car carriers dock here - the most ever for any one month.