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dock
Noun
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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
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If a boat or other vehicle docks, it connects to a dock.
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If you dock someone's pay, you don't pay them the full amount as a punishment.
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If you dock two computers, you connect them using a wire.
configuration
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noun
an arrangement of parts or elements
the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time
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noun
(= shape)
any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
he could barely make out their shapes