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Dockage

Definition: Dockage

Dockage

Noun

1. A fee charged for a vessel to use a dock.

2. 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".

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


Specialty Definition: Dockage

DomainDefinition

Agriculture

A factor in the grading of grains and oilseeds; i.e., dockage in wheat is described as "weed seeds, weed stems, chaff, straw, or grain other than wheat, which can be readily removed from the wheat by the use of appropriate sieves and cleaning devices; also, underdeveloped, shriveled and small pieces of wheat kernels removed in properly separating, properly rescreening, or recleaning." The term is also used to describe the amount of reduction in price taken because of a deficiency in quality. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Dockage

Synonyms: dock (n), docking facility (n), docking fee (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dockage

Specialty definitions using "dockage": BUYER, GRAINgrain-elevator agentmanager, grain elevatorWHARFINGER, CHIEF. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dockage

DomainTitle

Books

  • Sailing on a Budget: Moneywise Tips and Deals on Boat Purchases, Rental, Dockage, Destinations, and More (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dockage

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

boca dockage in raton

21

dockage

13

3 4 bedroom dockage family florida home in key single

2

dockage ft lauderdale

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dockage

Language Translations for "dockage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

dok (dock), pagesë për përdorimin e dokut (dock dues), futje në dok. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

такса за престой в пристанище (harbor dues, harbour dues), такса за престой в док, изкарване на док, докови съоръжения. (various references)

   

Danish

  

dokudgifter, sortering (classification, grading, inspection, riddling, screening, selection, separation, sort, sorting), soldrensning (riddling, screening), soldbehandling (riddling, screening), kajpenge (quay dues, quayage, wharfage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dokkosten, ziften (sift), kaderecht (quay dues, quayage, wharfage), kadegeld (quay dues, quayage, wharfage). (various references)

   

French

  

droit de quai, frais de dock, frais de bassin, criblage. (various references)

   

German

  

Dockkosten, Dockgebuehren, Sortierung (sort, sorting), Sieben (pick and choose, riddle, screen, seven, sieve, sift, sifting, to riddle, to sieve, to sift), Kaigebuehren (quay dues, quayage, wharfage). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοσκίνισμα (sieving), τέλη νεωδόχου, τέλη ντόκου, δικαιώματα προβλήτας (quay dues, quayage, wharfage). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dokkolás (docking). (various references)

   

Italian

  

diritto di banchina (quay dues, quayage, wharfage), crivellatura (riddling, screening, sifting), attracco (berthing, docking, mooring). (various references)

   

Manx

  

loaghanys. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockageday

   

Portuguese

  

direito de doca, crivação (riddling, screening). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

taxã de andocare, reducere (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, cut, deflation, degression, derogation, discount, drawback, drop, rebate, reduction, retrenchment, sinking), micşorare (contraction, decrease, detraction, diminution, drop, mitigation, palliation, reduction). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стоянка судов в доках (dock dues), сокращение (abbr, abbrev, abbreviation, abridgement, abridgment, breviary, cancellation, constriction, contraction, curtailment, cutback, cutting down, сокр., reduction, retrenchment, shortening, shrinkage, shrinking). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

taksa za iskrcavanje, pristajanje uz dok. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

muellaje (quay dues, quayage, wharfage). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dockningsavgift (dock dues), dockning. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ที่สำหรับจอ"เรือในอู่เรือ, ค่าธรรมเนียมจอ"เรือหรือเอาเรือเข้าอู่. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

doka alma, dok ücreti (dock dues), rıhtım hizmetleri, rıhtım ücreti (dock dues, pierage, quayage, wharfage), kesinti (cut, deduction, dock, interruption, stoppage, subtraction, wage cut), iskele (gangboard, gangway, landing, landing place, landing stage, larboard, pier, port, quay, scaffold, scaffolding, seaport, stage, staging, stopping place, wharf). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стоянка в доці, обладнання доку, доковий збір (dockdues). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thuế biển (dock-dues). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dockage

Derivations

Words beginning with "dockage": dockages. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dockage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decage, docka, Doukaga, Ockeghem. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Dockage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-k-o"

-2 letters: cadge, caged, caked, coked, gecko.

-3 letters: aced, aged, cade, cage, cake, coda, code, coed, coke, dace, dago, deck, deco, dock, doge, egad, gaed, geck, goad, odea.

-4 letters: ace, ado, age, ago, cad, cod, cog, dag, dak, doc, doe, dog, ego, gad, gae, ged, goa, god, kae, kea, keg, koa, oak, oca, ode, oka.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g-k-o"
 

+1 letter: dockages.

 

+3 letters: backlogged.

 

+4 letters: acknowledge, deadlocking, sockdolager.

 

+5 letters: acknowledged, acknowledges, backgrounded, backgrounder, overpackaged, sockdolagers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dockage


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 63 6B 61 67 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100001 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0063 006B 0061 0067 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38816977677371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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