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Docking

verb
Word Frequency: 0.7

Definitions

1.verbTo cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
2.verbTo reduce (wages); to deduct from.
3.verbTo cut off, bar, or destroy.
"to dock an entail"
4.verbTo land at a harbour.
5.verbTo join two moving items.
6.verbTo drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
7.verbTo place (an electronic device) in its dock.
"I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour."
8.verbTo pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
9.nounThe process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
10.nounThe securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
11.nounThe process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
12.nounThe sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.
13.nounA method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

Synonyms

mooringdropping anchortying upmattingtie-downgangingpinchegdcoreattachhitchstowing

Rhymes With

mockingshockingstalkinggawkingbalkingsquawkingknockingtalking
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