dock

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /dɒk/, SAMPA: /dQk/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophones: Doc, doc

Noun

Singular dock

Plural docks

A boat tied up at a dock

1. (countable) A dock is solid a place for boats and other vehicles to connect to.

   The truck backed slowing in to the hotel loading dock with a load of vegetables.

   She ran down the wooden dock to the waiting boat.

Verb

Plain form dock

Third-person singular docks

Past tense docked

Past participle docked

Present participle docking

1. (transitive & intransitive) If a boat or other vehicle docks, it connects to a dock.
2. (transitive) If you dock someone's pay, you don't pay them the full amount as a punishment.
3. (transitive & intransitive) If you dock two computers, you connect them using a wire.