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Dock
Dock may refer to:
In transportation
- Dock (maritime), an area of water for building or repairing or loading and unloading ships or ferries. See also:
- Dry dock, a narrow basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
- Ferry slip, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat
- Harbor
- Jetty
- Marina
- Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
- Pontoon (boat)|Pontoon, a buoyant device, used to support docks or floating bridges
- Quay
- Ski dock
- Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
- Loading dock or Cargo bay, an unloading area for trucks to deliver cargo
- Space rendezvous, if it includes docking
- Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a ''docker'' or ''longshoreman''
In natural sciences
- Rump (croup)|Dock (tailhead)
- Docking (animal), the removal of part of an animal, often tail or ears
- Docking (dog)
- Mutilation#Docking as human punishment|Docking as human corporal punishment
- Burdock, a group of biennial thistles
- 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
- Some other species of plants such as prairie dock (''Silphium terebinthinaceum'', ''Silphium perfoliatum'', ''Parthenium integrifolium''),
In molecular biology
- DOCK (protein)|DOCK (Dedicator of cytokinesis), a family of proteins involved in cell signalling
- Docking (molecular), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other in a bimolecular complex
In computing
- Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature
- Docking station, for a portable computer
Other
- Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren), a UK manga illustrator
- Docking (sexual practice), between men
- Docking, Norfolk, a village in East Anglia, England
- The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The first level of the Heretic (video game)#Game levels|Heretic video game
- The former name of Devonport, Devon, now a part of the city of Plymouth
- The place where the defendant stands in a British courtroom (see Courtroom#Scotland|the layout of courts in Scotland) hence the expression "in the dock"
See also
- Canid hybrid#Dog-fox hybrids|Dox, a supposed hybrid between a dog and a fox
- DOC (disambiguation)
- London Docklands|Docklands, the area in London
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