dock

(US) a place built out from the land at the edge of the water, where a ship stops to load or unload

(UK) The body of water next to and around a pier.

The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.

Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.

A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.

Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.

A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.

The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.

A section of a hotel or restaurant.

A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

Ellipsis of scene-dock.

(no longer used) The buttocks or anus.

To land at a harbour.

To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.

To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).

To reduce the wages of (a person).

To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.

To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

To join two moving items.

To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.

To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.

(slang) In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.

To cut off, bar, or destroy.