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Word: dock
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
- An act of docking; joining two things together.
- 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 medecine.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant, as in ''coffee dock''
- graphical user interface A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
- 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.
- obsolete The buttocks or anus.
- Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- The body of water between two wharves.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail, which remains after the tail has been docked.
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Proper noun:
- rare|dated male or nickname.
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Verb:
- intransitive To land at a harbour.
- To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
- To join two moving items.
- To reduce (wages); to deduct.
- computing To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
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