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noun

1. A place (such as a wharf or platform) for the loading or unloading of materials
2. A usually wooden pier used as a landing place or moorage for boats
3. A device in which a smartphone, digital camera, etc., is placed for charging, accessing a power supply, or connecting to another electronic device
4. A usually artificial basin or enclosure for the reception of ships that is equipped with means for controlling the water height
5. Slip
6. The combining site of a molecular receptor see receptor

   "Previous research showed that marijuana receptors, specialized proteins that serve as docks for THC, are clustered in regions of the brain known to play a role in movement disorders such as Huntington's disease."

verb

1. To haul or guide into or alongside a dock
2. To connect an electronic device (such as a computer or a digital camera) to another device

   "dock the phone into the computer"

3. To join (two spacecraft) mechanically while in space
4. To come into or alongside a dock
5. To become docked
6. To combine with a molecular receptor see receptor

   "These chemical messengers travel across a tiny cleft and dock at receptors along the surface of a muscle fiber."

verb

1. To subject to a deduction

   "dock someone's wages"

2. To penalize by depriving of a benefit ordinarily due
3. To take away a part of abridge
4. To cut (part of an animal, such as the ears or a tail) short
5. To cut off the end of a body part of

noun

1. The part of an animal's tail left after it has been shortened
2. The solid part of an animal's tail as distinguished from the hair

noun

1. The place in a criminal court where a prisoner stands or sits during trial

noun

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)

verb

1. To place in a dry dock

noun

1. A dock that can be kept dry for use during the construction or repairing of ships

noun

1. A dock that floats on the water and can be partly submerged to permit entry of a ship and raised to keep the ship high and dry

noun

1. Dry dock