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Definition: Floating Dock |
Floating DockNoun1. Dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Floating DockSynonym: floating dry dock (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Floating Dock |
| English words defined with "floating dock": Balance dock ♦ Sectional dock. (references) |
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 | "U. S. S. Itasca in the Floating Dock, St. Thomas." In: "The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands", by Theodoor De Booy and John T. Faris, 1918. J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia. P. 267. Library Call Number C/hc100 V81 B. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | NMFS floating dock in Juneau. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Under attack by German JU 87 dive bombers, at the Greek naval base at Salamis, 23 April 1941. In the lower left, in the floating drydock, is the destroyer Vasilefs Georgios. Kilkis, the former USS Mississippi (Battleship # 23), was sunk in this attack. The floating dock and destroyer were also sunk (reportedly on 20 April ?), but Vasilefs Georgios was subsequently raised and placed in service by the German Navy as Hermes (ZG-3). Credit: NAVY. | ||
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| 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 |
floating dock | 804 |
build a floating dock | 35 |
floating dock plan | 26 |
floating dock system | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "floating dock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | plovoucí dok. (various references) | |
Danish | flydedok, moderdok. (various references) | |
Dutch | moeder dok, drijvend droogdok, drijvend dok. (various references) | |
French | dock-mère, dock flottant. (various references) | |
German | Schwimmdock. (various references) | |
Greek | πλωτή δεξαμενή. (various references) | |
Hungarian | úszódokk (tidal dock). (various references) | |
Italian | bacino galleggiante principale, bacino galleggiante. (various references) | |
Manx | loghan snaue. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatingflay ockday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | doca flutuante. (various references) | |
Spanish | puerto flotante, dique madre, dique flotante. (various references) | |
Swedish | flytdocka (dry dock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-f-g-i-k-l-n-o-o-t" | |
-3 letters: olfaction. | |
-4 letters: anticold, antilock, cloaking, conoidal, daltonic, flacking, floating, flocking, flooding, footling, golconda, locating, location, tackling, talcking. | |
-5 letters: antilog, calking, cantdog, catling, coaling, coating, codling, cooking, coolant, cooling, cotidal, daglock, doating, docking, dongola, faction, factoid, fatling, flaking, flokati, foaling, folacin, folding, fooling, footing, gonadic, gondola, kiloton, lacking, lingcod, loading, loafing, locking, locoing, lofting. | |
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