docks

Meaning of docks

plural noun
  1. an enclosed area of water in a port for the loading, unloading, and repair of ships.
    the boat nosed up to a dock
    the tanker was coming into dock
    dock workers
  2. a device in which a laptop, smartphone, or other mobile device may be placed for charging, providing access to a power supply and to peripheral devices or auxiliary features; a docking station.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. (of a ship) come into a dock and tie up at a wharf.
    the ship docked at Southampton

late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German docke, of unknown origin.

verb, 3rd person present
  1. deduct (something, especially an amount of money or a point in a game).
    the agency enforce payments by docking money from the father's salary
    he was docked a penalty point
  2. cut short (an animal's tail).
    their tails were docked

plural noun

the solid bony or fleshy part of an animal's tail, excluding the hair.

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’.

plural noun
  1. the enclosure in a criminal court where a defendant stands or sits.
    the nine others in the dock face a combination of charges

late 16th century: probably originally slang and related to Flemish dok ‘chicken coop, rabbit hutch’, of unknown origin.

plural noun

a coarse weed of temperate regions, with inconspicuous greenish or reddish flowers. The leaves are used to relieve nettle stings.

Old English docce, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dialect dokke .

Information about docks

  • The singular form of docks is: dock.
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Hyphenation of docks

docks

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • docks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

docks synonyms

Meaning a place on the coast where ships may moor in shelter, especially one protected from rough water by piers, jetties, and other artificial structures:

harbour

Meaning a specially designed harbour with moorings for pleasure yachts and small boats:

marina

Meaning a part of a town that borders the sea or a lake or river:

waterfront

Meaning a harbour:

port

Meaning an area off the coast which is suitable for a ship to anchor:

anchorage

Meaning a level quayside area to which a ship may be moored to load and unload:

wharf

Meaning a stone or metal platform lying alongside or projecting into water for loading and unloading ships:

quay

Meaning a structure projecting from the shore into a river, lake, or the sea, used as a landing stage for boats:

pier

Meaning a landing stage or small pier at which boats can dock or be moored:

jetty

Meaning an area with docks and equipment for repairing and maintaining ships:

dockyard

Meaning an enclosed area of land where boats are built or stored:

boatyard

Meaning a landing place or small port for ships or boats:

hithe

Meaning the action of mooring a boat or ship to the shore or to an anchor:

moorage

Meaning a tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather:

moor

Meaning (of a ship) dock:

berth

Meaning put (someone or something) on land from a boat:

land

Meaning run or haul up (a boat or ship) on to a beach:

beach

Meaning moor (a ship) to the sea bottom with an anchor:

anchor

Meaning subtract or take away (an amount or part) from a total:

deduct

Meaning take away (a number or amount) from another to calculate the difference:

subtract

Meaning take (something) away or off from the position occupied:

remove

Meaning (of a bank or other financial organization) remove (an amount of money) from a customer's account:

debit

Meaning deduct an amount from (the usual price of something):

discount

Meaning with the subtraction of:

minus

Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:

reduce

Meaning make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object:

cut

Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:

decrease

Meaning make or become less; diminish:

lessen

Meaning make or become less:

diminish

Meaning make or become shorter:

shorten

Meaning cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short:

crop

Meaning cut off (a branch, limb, or twig) from the main body of a tree:

lop

Meaning a plum preserved by drying and having a black, wrinkled appearance:

prune

Meaning shorten the duration or extent of:

truncate

Meaning cut off (a limb) by surgical operation:

amputate

Meaning disengage (something or part of something) and remove it:

detach

Meaning break the connection of or between:

disconnect

Meaning divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly:

sever

Meaning divide or sever (something):

dissever

docks antonyms

Meaning join (something) to something else so as to increase the size, number, or amount:

add

Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:

increase

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