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Meaning dock meaning

What does dock mean?
Definitions in simple English

dock Noun

— A dock is solid a place for boats and other vehicles to connect to. The truck backed slowing in to the hotel loading dock with a load of vegetables. She ran down the wooden dock to the waiting boat.

dock Verb

— If a boat or other vehicle docks, it connects to a dock. — If you dock someone's pay, you don't pay them the full amount as a punishment. — If you dock two computers, you connect them using a wire.

dock

— noun an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial — verb come into dock the ship docked — verb deduct from someone's wages — verb deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty — verb (= tail) remove or shorten the tail of an animal — verb maneuver into a dock dock the ships — noun a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded — noun 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 — noun the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair — noun any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine — noun (= bobtail) a short or shortened tail of certain animals — noun (= pier) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats

Synonyms dock synonyms

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dock English » English

wharf pier sorrel quay port harbour jetty bob landing place landing harbor anchor shipyard moor haven dockyard anchorage wharfage tail seaport marina dry dock bobtail abridge truncate staithe sour grass platform park low wall loading dock entrenchment docking facility docking dockage deprive curtail crop bridge box berth basin bank yard wing weaken waterfront water terminal violate trim back

Topics dock topics

What do people use dock to talk about?
Universe, creation Plant

Grass, herb, vine
Social behavior Law

Court of law
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water
Physical actions Move Travel

Travel by water

Conjugation dock conjugation

How do you conjugate dock?

dock · verb

Examples dock examples

How do I use dock in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom likes to sit on the dock with his feet dangling in the water.
The space station not only served as a laboratory and living space for astronauts, but also as a support base for other spacecraft which had the ability to dock with the station.
Tom usually fishes off the dock, but sometimes he fishes from the shore.
Tom seems to enjoy just sitting on the dock and watching the seagulls.

Movie subtitles

There's 50 pounds of weed on my loading dock.
The construction of a new wing along the Orfevres Dock had turned the Halls of Justice upside down - they were overrun by builders.
Come, I'll show you where I saw him. in the scene-dock of the third cellar.
He probably stopped at the dock.
Not down on the dock.
Prepare to dock!
He'll run those mugs off the 93rd Street dock.
Where you stopping? - A room at my old neighborhood on Dock Street, number 24.
Return to dock! Mr Trehearne, I do t'emporter not leave!
And I'll see you hanging on Wapping Executional Dock beside him.
I'm taking him back to Port Royal and hanging him on the. dock in chains. and there he'll dangle to brood on his crimes till he's stoned to death.
Put your heaving line on the dock!
I'll be at the dock phone.
One heavy cruiser in dock, three outside.
Col. Bishop assures me that if he were in power. he would not rest day or night. until this Capt. Blood was swinging on execution dock.
Miss Bishop, an unlooked-for circumstance. prevents my landing you on your own dock.
The Sphinx is in dock F? - Yes.
I'm glad that we met on the dock.
And if you don't talk, we're gonna throw you off the dock!
You'll end swinging in the wind at Execution Dock with tar to keep the weather out.
Why do you think that new motor is still at the dock?
There's always lots of work before we dock.
A dock rat could do as much.
Tovarishchy! Put your heaving line on the dock!
I'll get you some change at the gas dock.
He was hanging around the dock after you left.
I'll see you down at the dock later tonight.
Execution Dock with tar to keep the weather out. It's time we went.
During the off-season, they undoubtedly use it as a dry dock.
Five men will be on the dock, one man in each car on the ferry.
Mueller and Banat will have to wait for you on the dock.
We will join you on the dock.
He was waiting on the dock when we came in.
I don't know, he left the dock and hasn't been back.
I couldn't get you on the dock, there's a man there watching. there's one upstairs, they're everywhere.

News and current affairs

The UN's Human Rights Council would not have dared to put Russia in the dock for razing Grozny, Chechnya's capital, or China for brutally suppressing the people of Tibet and the Muslim Uighur minority.
Saddam Hussein and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali preceded Mubarak in the dock.
These days suspected war criminals - from Rwanda to Serbia to Sierra Leone - are in the dock.
Once the trial begins, Syria may find itself in the dock.
The next moment Putin balks at removing Russia's military garrison from Moldova's secessionist Transdniester region while prosecutors talk ominously of putting more oligarchs in the dock.
Recall the photographs of Herman Goering and Rudolf Hess sitting glumly in the dock at Nuremberg.
But, despite the advent of true democratic elections, Liberia and all of West Africa will be trapped in an unending cycle of violence unless Taylor is put in the dock for war crimes.

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