dock
verb/dɒk/
/dɑːk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dock | /dɒk/ /dɑːk/ |
| he / she / it docks | /dɒks/ /dɑːks/ |
| past simple docked | /dɒkt/ /dɑːkt/ |
| past participle docked | /dɒkt/ /dɑːkt/ |
| -ing form docking | /ˈdɒkɪŋ/ /ˈdɑːkɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] dock (something) if a ship docks or you dock a ship, it sails into a harbour and stays there
- The ferry is expected to dock at 6.
- [intransitive, transitive] dock (something) if two spacecraft dock, or are docked, they are joined together in space
- Next year, a technology module will be docked on the space station.
- [transitive] to take away part of somebody’s wages, etc.
- dock something If you're late, your wages will be docked.
- dock something from/off something They've docked 15 per cent off my pay for this week.
- [transitive] dock something (computing) to connect a computer to a docking station
- I docked my laptop and started work.
- [transitive] dock something to cut an animal’s tail short
- The horse’s tail had been docked.
Word Originverb senses 1 to 2 late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German docke, of unknown origin. verb senses 3 to 4 late Middle English: perhaps related to Frisian dok ‘bunch, ball (of string etc.)’ and German Docke ‘doll’. The original noun sense was ‘the solid part of an animal's tail’, whence the verb sense ‘cut short an animal's tail’, later generalized to ‘reduce, deduct’.
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