Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.

    купіруванняkupiruvannja

  2. (countable, uncountable)The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.

    the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes

  3. (countable, uncountable)The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.

    Docking

    стыко́вкаstykóvka

  4. (countable, slang, uncountable)A sex act where two partners are co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.

    Docking

  5. (countable, uncountable)A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The pricking of many small holes into doughs and pastry.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal:
Русский
By meaning 1
process of connecting one spacecraft to another:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
process of connecting one spacecraft to another:

Origin

From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.

From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.

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Forms

plural: dockings
Singulardocking
Pluraldockings

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
securing a vessel, connecting a spaceship:undocking

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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