Usually means: Platform for loading and unloading vessels.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dock: Merriam-Webster
  2. dock, dock, dock, dock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dock, dock, dock, dock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dock: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dock, dock: Wordnik
  7. dock, the dock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dock, dock: Wiktionary
  9. dock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dock: Dictionary.com
  13. dock (n.1), dock (n.2), dock (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dock: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DOCK (protein), DOCK, Dock (Mac OS X), Dock (OS X), Dock (computing), Dock (macOS), Dock (maritime), Dock (plant), Dock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dock: Rhymezone
  19. Dock (m), dock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dock: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. dock: FreeDictionary.org
  23. dock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dock: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. dock: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. dock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dock: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Dock (disambiguation), Dock: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. Dock (disambiguation), dock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dock: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. dock: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. Dock (disambiguation), Dock (plant), Dock: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOCK: Acronym Finder
  2. dock: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dock, dock, dock, dock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dock: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. DOCK: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Dock: Latitude Mexico
  6. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
noun:  A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
noun:  The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
noun:  (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
noun:  A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
verb:  (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
verb:  (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
verb:  (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
noun:  (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
noun:  (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
noun:  The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
noun:  A section of a hotel or restaurant.
noun:  (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
noun:  (graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
noun:  An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
verb:  (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
verb:  To join two moving items.
verb:  (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
verb:  (intransitive, sex) To engage in docking; to insert the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant.
verb:  (transitive, graphical user interface) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
verb:  (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
noun:  (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
noun:  (US, rare, dated) A male given name or nickname.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (theater) Short for scene-dock. [An area in a theatre with access to the stage and the loading doors where scenery is temporarily stored]

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