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Dock may refer to:

In transportation

  • Dock (maritime), an area of water for building or repairing or loading and unloading ships or ferries
    • Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
    • Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
    • Ferry slip, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat
    • Pontoon, a buoyant device, used to support docks or floating bridges
    • Dry dock, a narrow basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
    • Loading dock or Cargo bay, an unloading area for trucks to deliver cargo
    • Jetty
    • Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman
  • Space rendezvous, if it includes docking

In natural sciences

  • Rumex, plants called docks and sorrels including narrow-leaf dock (Rumex mexicanus), curly dock or curled dock (Rumex crispus), broadleaf dock or butter dock (Rumex obtusifolius) and many other members of the Rumex genus
  • Burdock, a group of biennial thistles
  • Some other species of plants such as prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum, Silphium perfoliatum, Parthenium integrifolium),
  • Docking (molecular), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other in a bimolecular complex

    In computing

  • Docking station, for a portable computer
  • Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature

    Other

  • Docking (animal), the removal of part of an animal, often tail or ears » *Docking (dog) - the same practice restricted to dogs


       *For use on humans, for example as corporal punishment, see Mutilation
  • The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Docking (sexual practice), a sexual act performed between two men. Specifically, when one man pulls his foreskin over the head of another man's penis.
  • The first level of the Heretic video game
  • The place where the defendant stands in a British courtroom (see the layout of courts in Scotland) hence the expression "in the dock"
  • Docking, Norfolk, a village in East Anglia, England
  • Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren), a UK manga illustratorFurther Information

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