dock meaning
EN
[dɒk] [dɑk] [-ɒk] 
US WDock
- Dock may refer to:
EN Dock 
- NounPLdocksSUF-ock
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially the common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
- The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
- (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
- A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
- The body of water between two piers.
- A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- coffee dock
- (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
- An act of docking; joining two things together.
- Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially the common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- VerbSGdocksPRdockingPT, PPdocked
- (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. [ …] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
- (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
- (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- to dock an entail
- (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- To join two moving items.
- A “moving platform” scheme [ …] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
- (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Gingerenones A, B and C, lariciresinol, quercetin and calebin A from these spices exhibited high docking score, binding affinity and sustained protein-ligand interactions.
- The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Docking results, ligand interactions and ADMET properties of these molecules were significantly better than commercially available AR inhibitors like epalrestat, sorbinil and ranirestat.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of dock in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Ergative verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "dock" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.