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docking Synonyms & Antonyms

-ɒkɪŋ

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Docking as a Verb

1

present participle and gerund of dock

2

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

3

To reduce (wages); to deduct from.

4

To cut off, bar, or destroy.

to dock an entail

5

To land at a harbour.

6

To join two moving items.

7

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

8

To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

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

9

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

Docking as a Noun

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

A sex act where two partners are co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.

5

A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

6

The pricking of many small holes into doughs and pastry.

7

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 speechverb, noun
Pronunciation/-ɒkɪŋ/
Meaningpresent participle and gerund of dock
Pluraldockings