Dock

Definition: Dock

Dock

Noun

1. An enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial.

2. Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine.

3. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats.

4. A platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded.

5. 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".

6. The solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair.

7. A short or shortened tail of certain animals.

Verb

1. Come into dock, as of a ship.

2. Deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty.

3. Deduct from someone's wages.

4. Remove or shorten the tail of an animal.

5. Haul into a dock; "dock the ships".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

19th Century Satire

Building & Civil Engineering

Economics

Food & Agriculture

Shipping

Slang

Tips from 1870

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Dock

Abode

Anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor.

Dissimilarity

Nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale "; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo.

Mariner

Noun: sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man; dock walloper; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.; man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Store

Storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank; (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie.

Tribunal

Justice seat; judgment seat, mercy seat; woolsack; bar of justice; dock; forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead; jury box, witness box.

Workshop

Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard.

Crosswords: Dock

French (dock), German (dock), Swedish (however, nevertheless, still, yet).

Dock that chink a day's pay for napping on the job (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger)

Before we dock, I think we ought to discuss the bonus situation (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

What are you going to do, dock my pay (G vs E; writing credit: David Burris; Janice Engel)

You know, I really wanted to take you someplace special tonight and I thought sailing but my friends boat's in drty dock. Um, I checked into a charte plae to Napa it's way out of my league (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois)

We'll wake up in any minute in Dock Harbor and have a laugh about this (Flash Gordon; writing credit: Michael Allin; Alex Raymond)

Just to make this dock my home ("Dock of the Bay"; performing artist: Otis Redding)

Now, I'm just gonna sit at the dock of the bay ("Dock of the Bay"; performing artist: Otis Redding)

Ooo, I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay ("Dock of the Bay"; performing artist: Otis Redding)

Oooo-wee, sittin' on the dock of the bay ("Dock of the Bay"; performing artist: Otis Redding)

So I'm just gonna sit on the dock of the bay ("Dock of the Bay"; performing artist: Otis Redding)

Dixon of Dock Green (1955)

Dock (1954)

Galveston Bird's-Eye View of Dock Front (1900)

Transport 'Whitney' Leaving Dock (1898)

S.S. 'Queen' Leaving Dock (1897)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Consolidated Department Stores, et al. V the City of Nita and Northwest Dredge & Dock (reference)

• Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball (Fireside Sports Classics) (reference)

• Hickory Dickory Dock (reference)

• Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock (reference)

• Skippack School: Being the Story of Eli Shrawder and of One Christopher Dock, Schoolmaster About the Year 1750 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Marina Dock Age (reference)

• Moq Dock And List Of Members North America Membership (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Poirot - Hickory Dickory Dock (reference)

• Till Death Us Do Part: Dock Pilfering (reference)

• Trial and Error (aka The Dock Brief) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968 (reference)

• The Dock of the Bay (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Kodak EasyShare Digital Camera Cx4200 with Camera Dock (reference)

• Viewsonic airpanel V150 Dock for airpanel V150 Smart Display (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Global 5-Piece Knife Set with Storage Dock (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Woods Hole during 1938 hurricane Heavy surf breaking over SE side of Quadrangular dock. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Crab pot on the dock at the end of the day. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"The Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company's Works". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 72. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The dock at Hill Cove. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The ferry dock at Orcas Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Pump out station at the commercial fishing dock. Credit: Fisheries.

The F/V JAIME MAE rigged for fluke at the Co-op Seafood dock. Credit: Fisheries.

In the foreground, the camp and dock areas used to transport supplies to and from the reef. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A heron sits on the dock alongside the water. Numerous species of herons live and roost in the waters that surround Tampa Bay. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. An unfortunate squid on the dock after being caught. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

On the expiration of one month from the coming into force of the present Treaty all German submarines, submarine salvage vessels and docks for submarines, including the tubular dock, must have been handed over to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

An additional port, Exolgan, at nearby Dock Sud in the Province of Buenos Aires was also privatized. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

According to press reports, on October 11, police used force to break up a sit-in by dock workers aboard a ship and arrested 60 union members. (references)

Economic History

Senegal

The port is one of the few in Africa with a floating dry dock, and it has container, cereal and dedicated phosphate terminals. (references)

The Bahamas

Other industries include sun-dried sea salt in Great Inagua, a wet dock facility in Freeport for repair of cruise ships, and mining of aragonite--a type of limestone with several industrial uses--from the sea floor at Ocean Cay. (references)

Trade

Israel

The total value of the shipment includes packing, shipping, dock and agency fees, and insurance charges incurred in the exportation of the goods to Israel. (references)

Argentina

Other highlights of this free trade zone include its port, with 500 meters of dock, and its strategic location linking this free trade zone to the main cities of Argentina. (references)

Worker Rights

Benin

Unions also opposed a 1969 decree (which is still in effect) permitting the Government to dock the wages of striking public sector employees. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dock": Balance dock ♦ be in dock ♦ be in the dock ♦ bitter dock ♦ dock a ship ♦ dock dues ♦ Dock Junction ♦ dock laborer ♦ dock labourer ♦ dock pilot ♦ dock smb.'s salary ♦ dock strike ♦ Dock warrant ♦ dock worker ♦ Dry dock ♦ ex dock ♦ fiddle dock ♦ floating dock ♦ floating dry dock ♦ graving dock ♦ Hydraulic dock ♦ in dock ♦ in dry dock ♦ landing ship dock ♦ loading dock ♦ naval dock ♦ prairie dock ♦ put in the dock ♦ put smb. in the dock ♦ scene dock ♦ screw dock ♦ sectional dock ♦ slip dock ♦ sour dock ♦ travelling dock arm ♦ velvet dock ♦ water dock ♦ wet dock ♦ yellow dock. Additional references.

Beginning with "dock": dock-cress, dock-gate, dock-gates, dock-grubs, dock-leaf, dock-master, dock-related, dock-road, dock-to-dock, dock-union, dock-walloper, dock-workers, dock-yard.

Ending with "dock": dry-dock, wet-dock.

Albanian

dok lundrues, dok i thatë, dok (dockage), sjell anijen në dok, shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), labot, lëpjetë (Sorrel), futet (shrink, work in), cung i bishtit, bankë e të pandehurit, bëj bashkimin. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قفص الاتهام, ‏حوض السفن (pool), ‏حوض (basin, cistern, lavatory, pan, pelvis, receptacle, tank, trough, tub), ‏صقالة لاصلاح الطائرات, ‏البتر, ‏رصيف (flagging, footpath, kerb, levee, path, recife, ridge, sidewalk, stance), ‏دفع السفينة, ‏دخول الى الرصيف, ‏بتر ذيلا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скачвам се, склад за декори (scene dock), крайна гара (railhead, terminus), вкарвам в док, лапад, пристанище (harbour, haven, mole, port), прибирам в депо, подсъдима скамейка (bar), подрязвам (clip, cut short, lop, nip, pare, scissor, trim, undercut), подрязана опашка, подопашен ремък, док (duck, dungaree). (various references)

Chinese 

船坞, 碼頭 (pier, wharf), 塢 (low wall). (various references)

Czech

dok, zkrátit (abbreviate, abridge, Bob, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut short, reduce, shorten), zajet do doku, spojit se v kosmickém prostoru, obstavit, lavice obžalovaných, kupírovat (crop). (various references)

Danish

dok (bundle, hand, slip). (various references)

Dutch

dok. (various references)

Esperanto

doko, garaĝi (put away). (various references)

Faeroese

dokk, hømilia (sorrel). (various references)

Farsi 

موقوف کردن (Avoid, Discontinue, Overthrow, Subvert, Suppress), کوتاه کردن (Abbreviate, Abridge, Curtail, Short, Shorten, Stag), لنگرگاه (Anchorage, Berth, Harbor, Haven, Levee, Marina, Pier, Port), جای محکوم یازندانی درمحکمه , جاخالی کردن , بارانداز (Wharf), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references)

Finnish

typistetty häntä, typistää (abridge, crop, cut short, maim, mutilate), tulla telakkaan, tokka, telakoida (warp), telakka (shipyard), sulkutelakka, satama-allas, lyhyeksi leikattu häntä, laskea laituriin, laivatelakka (shipbuilding yard). (various references)

French

dock, quai, chantier (dockyard), bassin, banc des accusés (prisoner's dock). (various references)

Frisian

surk (sorrel). (various references)

German

dock, docken (stook), anlegen (apply, attach, berth, buckle on, clap on, couch, create, Don, draw up, fund, invest, land, landing, landscape, lay, lay back, lay beside, lay in, lay on, lay out, lay up, lean, locate, moor, mooring, position, put on, put onto, set, set out, site, start, structure, support, sustain, to apply, to apply (to)). (various references)

Greek 

αποβάθρα (jetty, landing stage, levee, pier, platform, quay, wharf). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבדוק (shipyard), מטען (baggage, burden, cargo, charge, dunnage, freight, lading, load, luggage, stowage), מספנה (dockyard, shipyard), לעגון (anchor, cast anchor, moor), להכנס לרציף, להביא למבדוק, תא הנאשם. (various references)

Hungarian

vádlottak padja (bar, prisoner's box), dokk (yard). (various references)

Indonesian

dok, pegalangan, memotong (butcher, deduct, dissect, hamstring, intersect, lop, prune), galangan kapal (dock yard, graving dock, shipyard), bandar (croupier, ditch, duct, harbour, port, trading-town, water course). (various references)

Italian

bacino (basin, bowl, field, hipbone, hollow, pelvis). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ドイツ連邦共和国 (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, docking, 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 

ドック . (various references)

Korean 

선창 (Wharf, Wharfs). (various references)

Manx

goll 'sy loghan, cur lhong 'sy loghan, cur da'n cheiy, crannag (heap, lookout, pulpit, rostrum, tribune), cabbag. (various references)

Norwegian

dokk, anklagebenk. (various references)

Pig Latin

ockday.(various references)

Portuguese

doca (basin). (various references)

Romanian

doc, scurta coadã, reţine (arrest, bespeak, book, catch, confine, delay, detain, engage, fix, ground, hinder, hold, hold in, impede, keep, keep back, keep in, laten, learn, memorize, nota bene, refrain, remember, reserve, restrain, retain, secure, stop, take by the button, trammel, withhold), partea cãrnoasã a cozii, micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), mãcriş (Sorrel), intra în bazin, gara (put away), boxã a acuzaţilor, bazin (area, basin, cistern, field, region, reservoir, tank, well), bancã (bank, bench, box, desk, form, kitty, seat), acosta (accost, land, moor). (various references)

Russian 

док. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dok (as, until, while, whiles, whilst), zelje (greens), spojiti se (conjoin, merge), pristati (accede, accept, agree, assent, comply, consent, go in, side), pristanište (pier, slip, terminal, wharf), potkresan rep, potkratiti (shorten), odbiti (cast aside, counter, decline, deduct, deny, disallow, drive back, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean). (various references)

Spanish

dique (bank, dam, dike, dyke, levee), dársena (basin, shipside). (various references)

Swedish

syra (acid, sorrel), skeppsdocka. (various references)

Thai

อู่เรือ, จอดเรือ. (various references)

Turkish

dok (dockyard, wet dock), doka çekmek (drydock), kuyruğun kemikli kısmı, eyer kuskunu, gemi havuzu, kısa kesilmiş kuyruk, kısaltmak (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, clip, compress, curtail, cut down, edit, make shorter, prune, reduce, retrench, short circuit, shorten, summarize, take up), karabuğday benzeri bir ot, azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), yük rampası, kuyruğunu kısaltmak, rıhtım (jetty, pier, quay, quayside, wharf), rıhtıma yanaşmak (berth), sanık yeri, tersane (dockyard, navy yard, shipyard, yard), uzayda başka gemiye kenetlemek, uzayda kenetlenmek, kesinti (cut, deduction, dockage, interruption, stoppage, subtraction, wage cut). (various references)

Ukrainian

ставити в док, стикувати, тупик (blind, blind alley, blind side, cul de sac, dead lock, impasse, no go, no-thoroughfare, stalemate), верф (dockyard, doctor, shipyard, wharf), пірс (jetty, pier), док. (various references)

Vietnamese 

không có việc làm (out-of-work). (various references)

Welsh

tocio (clip, prune), tafol (scales). (various references)

ducere, lapathum, rumex. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dock": dockage, dockages, docked, docker, dockers, docket, docketed, docketing, dockets, dockhand, dockhands, docking, dockland, docklands, dockmaster, dockmasters, docks, dockside, docksides, dockworker, dockworkers, dockyard, dockyards. (additional references)

Words ending with "dock": boondock, burdock, haddock, paddock, piddock, redock, ruddock, shaddock, spatterdock, undock. (additional references)

Words containing "dock": boondocks, burdocks, haddocks, paddocked, paddocking, paddocks, piddocks, redocked, redocking, redocks, ruddocks, shaddocks, spatterdocks, undocked, undocking, undocks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adick, Dack, dcock, dcom, Deok, dicka, Dijck, dioc, diok, Dirck, doak, docc, Docco, doch, doci, docka, docke, Docko, doct, docu, doek, doik, Dok, doke, doki, doko, Doku, donc, Donck, donk, dook, dorc, Doshak, dosk, douc, dox, droc, duoc, Gock, odoc, wock. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cod, doc.

-2 letters: do, od.

+1 letter: coked, docks.

+2 letters: choked, cocked, conked, cooked, corked, docked, docker, docket, hocked, locked, mocked, nocked, pocked, redock, rocked, socked, undock, yocked.

+3 letters: bedrock, blocked, burdock, chocked, cloaked, clocked, clonked, cockade, cockled, croaked, crocked, crooked, cuckold, daglock, defrock, dockage, dockers, dockets, docking, dorneck, dornick, dornock, flocked, frocked, geoduck, haddock, hoicked, knocked, mudrock, paddock, padlock, piddock, redocks, ruddock, shocked, smocked, stocked, trocked, undocks, wedlock.