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Meaning of docking

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

docking

Pronunciation:

verb

Definitions

  1. To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.

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

  3. To cut off, bar, or destroy.

    Example: to dock an entail

verb

Definitions

  1. To land at a harbour.

  2. To join two moving items.

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

  4. To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

    Example: I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.

verb

Definitions

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

noun

Definitions

  1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.

  2. The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables

  3. The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.

  4. The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.