docked adj

1 that in a dock; "a docked ship"

2 (of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman pinschers with docked tails and ears" [syn: clipped]

English

Verb

docked

1. past of dock

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, 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
  • Loading dock or Cargo bay, an unloading area for trucks to deliver cargo
  • Jetty
  • Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman
• 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),
• Docking (molecular), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other in a bimolecular complex

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
• For use on humans, e.g. as corporal punishment, see Mutilation

• The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Docking (sexual practice), a sexual act performed between two men. Specifically, when one man pulls his foreskin over the head of another man's penis.
• The first level of the Heretic video game
• The place where the defendant stands in a British courtroom (see the layout of courts in Scotland) hence the expression "in the dock"
• Docking, Norfolk, a village in East Anglia, England
• Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren), a UK manga illustrator

See also

• Dox, a supposed hybrid between a dog and a fox
• DOC (disambiguation)
• Docklands, the area in London

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