dock

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-Germanic *dukk-- (compare Old Danish dokke ‘water-dock’, West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeu- ‘dark’ (compare Latvian duga ‘scum, slime on water’).[1][2]

Noun

dock (plural docks)

  1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially the common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
  2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
Translations
any plant in genus Rumex
burdock

References

  1. ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.v. “*đukkōn” (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 78.
  2. ^ William Morris, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, coll. edn., s.v. “dock4” (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979), 387; Calvert Watkins, ed., “Indo-European Roots”, Appendix, AHD, s.v. “dheu-1”, 1513.

Etymology 2

Middle English dok, from Old English -docca (as in fingirdoccana (genitive pl.) ‘finger muscles’), from Proto-Germanic *dukkōn (compare West Frisian dok ‘bunch, ball (twine)’, Low German Dokke ‘bundle of straw’, Icelandic dokkur ‘stumpy tail’), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeu-k- ‘to spin, shake’ (cf. Lithuanian dvė̃kti ‘to breathe, wheeze’, dvãkas ‘breath’, Albanian dak ‘big ram’, Sanskrit dhukśati ‘to blow’).[1]

Noun

dock (plural docks)

  1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
  2. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
  3. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
Translations
fleshy root of an animal's tail
remaining part of tail

Verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

  1. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
  2. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
  3. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
    to dock an entail
Translations
To reduce wages; to deduct
To cut off a section of an animal's tail

References

  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, s.v. “Docke” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).

Etymology 3

From Middle English dock ‘mud channel’, from Middle Dutch docke ‘channel’ (modern dok ‘lock (canal)’), from Old Italian doccia ‘conduit, canal’ or Medieval Latin ducta, ductus ‘id.’. More at douche and duct.[1]

Noun

dock (plural docks)

  1. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, The Purchase Price[1]:
      With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
  2. The body of water between two piers.
  3. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
  4. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
    • coffee dock
  5. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
  6. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
  7. An act of docking; joining two things together.
Synonyms
  • (body of water between piers): slip
  • (structure for loading and unloading vessels): wharf, quay
Hypernyms
Translations
fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
body of water between two piers or wharves
section of a hotel or restaurant, as in coffee dock
device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
toolbar for launching and switching between applications
act of joining two items together
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Verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

  1. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
    • 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes[2]
      On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this..
  2. To join two moving items.
  3. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
Translations
to land at a harbour
to join two moving items

References

  1. ^ Marlies Philippa et al., eds., Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands, A-Z, s.v. “dok” (Amsterdam UP, 3 Dec. 2009): <http://www.etymologie.nl>.

Etymology 4

Originally criminal slang; from or akin to Dutch (Flemish) dok 'cage, hutch'.

Noun

dock (plural docks)

  1. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
Translations
part of a courtroom where the accused sits
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Swedish

Pronunciation

Adverb

dock

  1. though, however, still, nevertheless
    Om jag än måste dö med dig, så skall jag dock förvisso icke förneka dig.
    Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee (Matthew 26:35)
    Dock, natt skall icke förbliva där nu ångest råder.
    Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation (Isaiah 9:1)
    Man river åt sig till höger och förbliver dock hungrig, man tager för sig till vänster och bliver dock ej mätt
    And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied (Isaiah 9:20)
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