DOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dock mean? 

• DOCK (noun)
  The noun DOCK has 7 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: DOCK used as a noun is common.

• DOCK (verb)
  The verb DOCK has 5 senses:

1. come into dock

2. deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty

3. deduct from someone's wages

4. remove or shorten the tail of an animal

5. maneuver into a dock

  Familiarity information: DOCK used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dock" is a kind of...):

enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dock; sorrel; sour grass

Hypernyms ("dock" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dock"):

garden sorrel; Rumex acetosa; sour dock (European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens)

Rumex acetosella; sheep's sorrel; sheep sorrel (small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places)

bitter dock; broad-leaved dock; Rumex obtusifolius; yellow dock (European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America)

French sorrel; garden sorrel; Rumex scutatus (low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves)

Holonyms ("dock" is a member of...):

genus Rumex; Rumex (docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dock; pier; wharf; wharfage

Hypernyms ("dock" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

Meronyms (parts of "dock"):

shipside (the part of a wharf that is next to a ship)

bitt; bollard (a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dock"):

levee (a pier that provides a landing place on a river)

quay (wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline)

Derivation:

dock (maneuver into a dock)

dock (come into dock)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dock; loading dock

Hypernyms ("dock" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dock; dockage; docking facility

Context example:

the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late

Hypernyms ("dock" is a kind of...):

landing; landing place (structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dock"):

dry dock; drydock; graving dock (a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline)

marina (a fancy dock for small yachts and cabin cruisers)

Holonyms ("dock" is a part of...):

harbor; harbour; haven; seaport (a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo)

Derivation:

dock (maneuver into a dock)

dock (come into dock)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dock" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("dock" is a part of...):

tail (the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A short or shortened tail of certain animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bob; bobtail; dock

Hypernyms ("dock" is a kind of...):

tail (the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body)

Derivation:

dock (remove or shorten the tail of an animal)

• DOCK (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come into dock

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the ship docked

Hypernyms (to "dock" is one way to...):

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dock"):

berth; moor; wharf (come into or dock at a wharf)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Antonym:

undock (move out of a dock)

Derivation:

dock (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)

dock (a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats)

dockage (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)

docker (a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port)

docking (the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "dock" is one way to...):

deprive (keep from having, keeping, or obtaining)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deduct from someone's wages

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "dock" is one way to...):

deduct; recoup; withhold (retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Remove or shorten the tail of an animal

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bob; dock; tail

Hypernyms (to "dock" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dock (a short or shortened tail of certain animals)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Maneuver into a dock

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

dock the ships

Hypernyms (to "dock" is one way to...):

channelise; channelize; direct; guide; head; maneuver; manoeuver; manoeuvre; point; steer (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dock"):

dry-dock; drydock (maneuver (a ship) into a drydock)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The men dock the boat

Antonym:

undock (take (a ship) out of a dock)

Derivation:

docking (the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes)

docker (a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port)

dock (a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats)

dock (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)

 Context examples 

NUP98 docking/transport function is localized to N-terminal GLFG/FXFG repeats. mRNA nuclear export inhibition by Vesicular Stomatitis Virus M Protein targets NUP98.

(Nucleoporin 98kD, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a critical role in nuclear transport and docking regulation.

(NUP214 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

NUP214 is required for proper cell cycle progression and, as a nuclear pore component, may regulate nucleocytoplasmic transport by serving as a docking site in receptor-mediated nuclear import.

(Nucleoporin 214kDa, NCI Thesaurus)

But now the spell had been upon him eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the effects.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each gap junction channel is formed by docking of two 'hemichannels', each containing six connexins, contributed by each neighboring cell.

(Gap Junction Assembly Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This allele, which encodes nuclear pore complex protein Nup98-Nup96 protein, is involved in the regulation of the nuclear pore complex and protein docking.

(NUP98 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The import of membrane proteins into peroxisomes needs PEX19 for recognition, targeting and insertion via docking at PEX3.

(Peroxisome Biogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Because, in some professional inquiry, he has been working among Chinese sailors down in the docks.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The resultant phosphoinositides act as selective membrane docking sites for signal transduction proteins with diverse PH domains.

(Phosphoinositol Kinase Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)