docking Synonyms & Antonyms
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Docking as a Verb
present participle and gerund of dock
To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
To cut off, bar, or destroy.
to dock an entail
To land at a harbour.
To join two moving items.
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.
I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.
To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
Docking as a Noun
The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
A sex act where two partners are co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
The pricking of many small holes into doughs and pastry.
The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.
Docking in a Sentence
to dock an entail
I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.
Word Forms & Grammar
docking
docking (countable and uncountable, plural dockings)
Words That Rhyme With Docking
Origin of Docking
Origin 1: From dock + -ing.
Origin 2: From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.
Word Facts for Docking
| Part of speech | verb, noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /-ɒkɪŋ/ |
| Meaning | present participle and gerund of dock |
| Plural | dockings |
