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Definition: Docked |
DockedAdjective1. That in a dock; "a docked ship". 2. (of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman pinschers with docked tails and ears". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "docked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Synonym: DockedSynonym: clipped (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Incompleteness | Mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Docked |
| English words defined with "docked": clipped, Curtail dog ♦ undock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "docked": Vale of Bonnet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "docked": Colure. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They docked and some of the passengers got off (Style and Substance; writing credit: James Grissom) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Technical Rendition of STS-71 Docked to Mir. Credit: NASA. |  | Atlantis Docked to Mir. Credit: NASA. |
 | "Buy boat" ROBERT LEE docked at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership to transplant oyster spat to permanent oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Shrimp boats docked along the Caloosahatchee River. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Shrimp fleet docked along the Caloosahatchee River. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Pumping system designed to unload boats docked near Triangle Fisheries. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Drying sails at the Boston Navy Yard, with two small tugs docked beyond her bow. The original print bears the date 22 December 1874, seven days before she decommissioned at Boston. Plans in the National Archives indicate that Wachusett was altered to this configuration during her 1874-79 refit at Boston, and retained it until she was finally decommissioned in 1885. Credit: NAVY. |  | In floating drydock ABSD-1, off Aessi Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 13 November 1944. The battleship was docked for upkeep and repair to propellers damaged when she touched ground off Leyte on 21 October. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Critical moments. Boss, 'at tail oughta be docked -- yassah! Anyway yo' look at it ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ships docked in Galveston harbor, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Morning fog 1" by Grant Yiu Commentary: "Morning fog over docked boats." | "Boat Dock" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "These boats are docked outside of one of baltimore's most expensive loft apartment complexes..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Togo | The ship eventually docked in Nigeria, where the passengers were granted refugee status. (references) |
Hong Kong | Li's pay eventually was docked for the months he spent away from work while detained in the mainland. (references) | |
Ghana | On June 10, 167 Liberians on board a Swedish vessel that docked in Tema were not allowed to disembark, while Ghanaian and Nigerian citizens aboard the ship were permitted to disembark. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Of these, 552 officers were discharged, 64 received compulsory retirement, and 83 were demoted or had their pay docked. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Docked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 54.12% of the time. "Docked" is used about 85 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 (past tense) | 54.12% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 36.47% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.41% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "docked": tail-docked. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
docked | 7 |
cruise docked ship | 5 |
boat docked sail | 4 |
docked profile using | 3 |
docked tails | 3 |
docked tail | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "docked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 靠码头. (various references) | |
Danish | skib i dok (docked ship). (various references) | |
Dutch | ingedokt schip (docked ship). (various references) | |
French | navire mis au bassin (docked ship). (various references) | |
German | landete (alighted, debarked, disembarked, landed). (various references) | |
Greek | κολοβός (croptailed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perkaitan (state of being docked). (various references) | |
Korean | 접안하는. (various references) | |
Manx | 'sy loghan, ec y cheiy, cuttagh (abrupt, bobbed, brief, cut short, runt, runty, shortened). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockedday.(various references) | |
Russian | причаливать причаленный. (various references) | |
Scottish | cutach (bobtailed, bob-tailed, stumpy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "docked": paddocked, redocked, undocked. (additional references) | |
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"Docked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Doccia, docendi, docka, Dockar, docke, Dock'ead, docken, Dockhead, dockies, Docko, Dockree, Docksey, Doclea, docted, Dokken, Duckek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "docked" (pronounced dÄ"kt) |
| 3 | -Ä" k t | blocked, clocked, cocked, concoct, flocked, knocked, locked, mocked, overstocked, pocked, restocked, rocked, shocked, socked, stocked, unlocked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-k-o" | |
-1 letter: coded, coked. | |
-2 letters: code, coed, coke, deck, deco, dock, eddo. | |
-3 letters: cod, doc, doe, odd, ode, oke. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-k-o" | |
+2 letters: cockaded, deadlock, docketed, dockside, redocked, undocked. | |
+3 letters: blockaded, cuckolded, deadlocks, defrocked, docksides, dreadlock, paddocked, padlocked, stockaded. | |
+4 letters: coldcocked, deadlocked, disfrocked, dreadlocks, gridlocked, landlocked, overdecked. | |
+5 letters: archdukedom, backdropped, bodychecked, deadlocking, goldbricked, roadblocked. | |
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