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Definition: Docking |
DockingNoun1. A act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | The act of coupling two or more orbiting objects; the operation of mechanically connecting together, or in some manner bringing together, orbital payloads. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The removal of unwanted ends of logs or converted timber by cross-cutting, generally to a given length. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Manoeuvre involving the physical attachment of 2 or more vehicles in space. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The assembling manoeuvre when one of the vehicles is to be used to power other vehicles. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The connecting manoeuvre of 2 or more vehicles in space. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DockingSynonyms: moorage (n), tying up (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Docking |
| English words defined with "docking": painter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "docking": bow fast, bow line, bow rope ♦ CUSTOMS PATROL OFFICER ♦ DOCK HAND, docking station ♦ FREIGHT-TRAFFIC CONSULTANT ♦ hook-up driver ♦ Infra-red ♦ laborer, marine terminal, LINES TENDER ♦ MANAGER, HOTEL RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, MANAGER, MARINA DRY DOCK, mutton puncher ♦ Seaplane Base, SHEEP HERDER, SWI-Prolog ♦ transportation consultant ♦ yard spotter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Docking" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (docking). |
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Screenplays | Ah ha, that'll be 15 docking tax. Where's your sea craft? (Popeye; writing credit: Jules Feiffer; E.C. Segar) You mean the docking web. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) That's the price you pay for docking your Love Boat in Jackie Vallarta. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Docking a Liner (1902) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Augmented Target Docking Adapter. Credit: NASA. |  | Certificate Signing of First American & Russian Docking. Credit: NASA. |
 | Soyuz 4 Commander Explaining in-Orbit Docking of Soyuz 4/5. Credit: NASA. |  | Diagram of Soyuz 4/5 in Orbit Docking. Credit: NASA. |
 | A large break-bulk merchant vessel docking at sunset at Lake Charles. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The road down to the only existing housing at Mona Island leads to the staging and docking areas for the restoration workers. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The McARTHUR docking at Key West Harbor. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Docking a big liner, S.S. Oceanic. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steamer docking, Jacksonville, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Negro deck hand throwing line in docking operations, Burrwood, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Health | CDC is responsible for evaluating sanitation on cruise ships docking in US ports. (references) | |
In addition, CDC, in collaboration with international agencies, works to improve sanitary conditions in foreign accommodations (e.g., tourist resorts) and on board cruise ships docking in U.S. ports. (references) | ||
Business | There are 76 maritime ports in Mexico with 35,000 meters of docking facilities. (references) | |
Economic History | Dominica | Cruise ship stopovers have increased following the development of modern docking and waterfront facilities in the capital. (references) |
Jamaica | Kingston transshipment port is currently undergoing expansion (at a cost of USD 120 million) to increase docking capacity for ships. (references) | |
Bahrain | The owners are planning to build chalets, a docking facility, a clubhouse, a seafood restaurant, picnic and beach areas, an artificial reef, and an outdoor swimming pool. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Docking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Docking" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 50% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 38.89% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "docking": docking facility ♦ docking fee ♦ docking procedure ♦ docking saw ♦ docking station. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "docking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 相接. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilkobling (attachment, engagement, hitch, hitching, linkage, locking), sammenkobling (coupling, interconnected network, interconnected system, interconnecting network, interconnecting system, interconnection, linkage, twinning), sammenføring (fan-in, junction), renskæring (edging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | korten (abbreviate, abridge, count down, curtail, discount, rebate, shorten), koppeling (clutch), koppelen (couple, match, match-make), inkorten (abate, abbreviate, abridge, curtail, decrease, lessen, shorten), gekoppeld worden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | telakointi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rognage, jonction, attelage, assemblage (dovetailing), amarrage, accostage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | landend (alighting, debarking, disembarking, landing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελιγμός σύνδεσης, ελιγμός πρόσδεσης, ελιγμός προσάραξης, ερικοπή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dokkolás (dockage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mozzatura (end), intestatura (end-butting, end-trimming, equalising, equalizing, trimming), attracco (berthing, dockage, mooring), approdo (disembarkment, landfall, landing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ドイツ連邦共'国 (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, dock, doctor, doctor course, doctrine, document, documental, documentary, documentary drama, documentation, dodecaphony, dodge ball, doeskin, dog racing, dogfight, doggie bag, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatist, doily, do-it-yourself, dominant, domino, donor, doom, doo-wop, dot, dot map, dot matrix, dot printer, dwell, dwelling, Federal Republic of Germany, referee's stop, thud, to be noisy, to make noise, yakuza sword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ドッキング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 단미. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockingday traçagem, manobra de atracagem, colocação (installation, laying, lodgement, lodgment, mounting, niche, placing, post, setting, situation), atracagem para reboque, atracagem (landing, touch-down). (various references) стыковка (coupling, link-up). (various references) spajanje (amalgamation, binding, conjugation, hookup, joinder, joining, junction, juncture, link up, linking up), pristajanje (assentation, fit). (various references) unión cósmica, retestar un tronco, maniobra de ensamblaje, ensamblaje para remolque, ensamblaje (assembling, assembly, lasting, mounting, scarfing), acoplamiento (attachment, clutch, coupler, coupling joint, hookup, link up, linkage). (various references) renskärning (trimming). (various references) uzayda kenetlenme. (various references) ставлення в док, швартування (mooring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "docking": paddocking, redocking, undocking. (additional references) | |
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"Docking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dicking, Dobkin, docing, docken, docting, Dokken, dorking, duckings, Duckwing, Vockins, yocking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "docking" (pronounced dÄ"king) |
| 5 | d Ä" k i ng | undocking. |
| 4 | -Ä" k i ng | blocking, cocking, flocking, Hocking, knocking, locking, mocking, restocking, rocking, shocking, socking, stocking, unlocking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-g-i-k-n-o" | |
-1 letter: coding, coking. | |
-2 letters: coign, dingo, doing, incog. | |
-3 letters: cion, coin, coni, conk, dick, ding, dink, dock, dong, gink, icon, ikon, kind, king, kino, nick, nock, nodi, odic, oink. | |
-4 letters: cig, cod, cog, con, dig, din, doc, dog, don, gid, gin, god, ick, ink, ion, kid, kin, koi, nod, nog. | |
-5 letters: do, go, id, in, no. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-g-i-k-n-o" | |
+2 letters: docketing, redocking, undocking. | |
+3 letters: blockading, cuckolding, defrocking, paddocking, padlocking, stockading, stockinged. | |
+4 letters: coldcocking, deadlocking, disfrocking, gridlocking, mockingbird, overdecking. | |
+5 letters: backdropping, bloodsucking, bodychecking, goldbricking, mockingbirds, roadblocking, rockhounding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 63 6B 69 6E 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- -.-. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o c k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0063 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38816977758073 |
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