leahcology.com Home > dock


Categories

  • concrete basement
  • calexico
  • autocad lt 98
  • yves rocher usa
  • vaio tr
  • summer hill
  • scrapbook products
  • quebec hotels
  • palo alto hotels
  • mundial cutlery
  • los angeles sublet
  • island golf
  • hawaiian scrubs
  • florence ky
  • dover new hampshire
  • concrete cutter
  • calf sleeve
  • bag ladies
  • 1995 mitsubishi galant
  • visa philippines

  • Term: dock
    Key Words: , ibook, dock, dock, carts, dock, docklands, london, aluminum, docks, sebago, docksiders, dock, floats, mobile, dock, sony, vaio, docking, station
    Related Terms: ibook dock, dock carts, dock, docklands london, aluminum docks, sebago docksiders, dock floats, mobile dock, sony vaio docking station

    dock!


    dock

    Comprehensive Analysis



    1) "Dock" -- As to dock

    1dock
    Pronunciation: 'däk
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Middle English, from Old English docce; akin to Middle Dutch docke dock
    1 : any of a genus (Rumex) of coarse weedy plants of the buckwheat family having long taproots and sometimes used as potherbs
    2 : any of several usually broad-leaved weedy plants (as of the genus Silphium)
    Pronunciation Symbols

    Dock may refer to:

    In transportation:

    • Dock (maritime), an area of water for building or repairing or loading and unloading ships or ferries
      • Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
      • Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
      • Ferry slip, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat
      • Pontoon, a buoyant device, may be used to support docks or floating bridges
      • Dry dock, a narrow basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
      • Cargo Bay, an unloading area for semi trucks to deliver cargo such as boats
      • Jetty
      • Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman
    • Loading dock, where trucks may be loaded and unloaded
    • Space rendezvous, if it includes docking

    In natural sciences:

    • Rumex, plants called docks and sorrels including narrow-leaf dock (Rumex mexicanus), curly dock or curled dock (Rumex crispus), broadleaf dock or butter dock (Rumex obtusifolius) and many other members of the Rumex genus
    • Burdock, a group of biennial thistles
    • Some other species of plants such as prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum, Silphium perfoliatum, Parthenium integrifolium),
    • Molecular docking, a research technique for predicting whether one molecule will bind to another

    In computing:

    • Docking station, for a portable computer
    • Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature

    Other:

    • Docking (animal), the removal of part of an animal, often tail or ears
    • Docking (dog) - the same practice restricted to dogs