Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
to cut off a section of an animal's tail:
to reduce wages; to deduct:
to land at a harbour:
to join two moving items:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to cut off a section of an animal's tail:
to land at a harbour:
to join two moving items:

Examples

23 sentences
  1. The ship hasn't even docked yet.

    deDas Schiff hat noch nicht einmal angelegt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. You have docked on the island.

  3. The boat docked on the shore.

    ruЛодку пришвартовали к берегу. — odexed

Meaning

11 senses
  1. (transitive)To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.

    kupieren

    подреза́тьpodrezátʹ, подре́затьpodrézatʹ, укора́чиватьukoráčivatʹ

  2. (transitive)To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).

    Her wages were docked by ten dollars.

    уреза́тьurezátʹ, уре́затьurézatʹ, сокраща́тьsokraščátʹ

    deduct from someone's wages

  3. (intransitive)To land at a harbour.

    anlegen

    прича́ливатьpričálivatʹ, прича́литьpričálitʹ

More meanings 8
  1. To join two moving items.

    to dock spacecraft

    ankoppeln, andocken

    стыкова́тьstykovátʹ, состыкова́тьsostykovátʹ

  2. (informal, transitive)To reduce the wages of (a person).

    They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.

  3. (transitive)To cut off, bar, or destroy.

    to dock an entail

  4. (transitive)To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

    I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.

  5. (transitive)To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.

  6. To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.

  7. (transitive)To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.

  8. (intransitive, slang)In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.

Origin

A dog with a partially docked (etymology 2, verb sense 1) tail A laptop docking (etymolog

A dog with a partially docked (etymology 2, verb sense 1) tail

A laptop docking (etymology 3, noun sense 5) station

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Forms

docks, docking, docked, docked

regular · Lesson

Base formdock · to dock
3rd person singulardocks
Present participledocking
Past simpledocked
Past participledocked

Tenses

dock · docked · will dock · have docked

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydock
he, she, itdocks

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave docked
he, she, ithas docked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill dock

Past simpleLesson

all personsdocked

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • remove or shorten the tail of an animal:tailbob

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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