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I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!
Tamer Hassan

Meaning of "dock" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DOCK

From Middle Dutch docke; perhaps related to Latin ducere to lead.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DOCK

dock  [dɒk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOCK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dock is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dock in English.

WHAT DOES DOCK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dock in the English dictionary

The first definition of dock in the dictionary is a wharf or pier. Other definition of dock is a space between two wharves or piers for the mooring of ships. Dock is also an area of water that can accommodate a ship and can be closed off to allow regulation of the water level.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DOCK

PRESENT

Present
I dock
you dock
he/she/it docks
we dock
you dock
they dock
Present continuous
I am docking
you are docking
he/she/it is docking
we are docking
you are docking
they are docking
Present perfect
I have docked
you have docked
he/she/it has docked
we have docked
you have docked
they have docked
Present perfect continuous
I have been docking
you have been docking
he/she/it has been docking
we have been docking
you have been docking
they have been docking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I docked
you docked
he/she/it docked
we docked
you docked
they docked
Past continuous
I was docking
you were docking
he/she/it was docking
we were docking
you were docking
they were docking
Past perfect
I had docked
you had docked
he/she/it had docked
we had docked
you had docked
they had docked
Past perfect continuous
I had been docking
you had been docking
he/she/it had been docking
we had been docking
you had been docking
they had been docking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dock
you will dock
he/she/it will dock
we will dock
you will dock
they will dock
Future continuous
I will be docking
you will be docking
he/she/it will be docking
we will be docking
you will be docking
they will be docking
Future perfect
I will have docked
you will have docked
he/she/it will have docked
we will have docked
you will have docked
they will have docked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been docking
you will have been docking
he/she/it will have been docking
we will have been docking
you will have been docking
they will have been docking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dock
you would dock
he/she/it would dock
we would dock
you would dock
they would dock
Conditional continuous
I would be docking
you would be docking
he/she/it would be docking
we would be docking
you would be docking
they would be docking
Conditional perfect
I would have dock
you would have dock
he/she/it would have dock
we would have dock
you would have dock
they would have dock
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been docking
you would have been docking
he/she/it would have been docking
we would have been docking
you would have been docking
they would have been docking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dock
we let´s dock
you dock
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dock
Past participle
docked
Present Participle
docking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOCK

docimology
dock dues
dock house
dock labourer
dock leaf
dock strike
dock-worker
dockage
docken
docker
docket
dockhand
docking
docking station
dockisation
dockization
dockize
dockland
dockmaster
docks

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOCK

block
building block
clock
cock
digital clock
eight o´clock
Hitchcock
in stock
knock
lock
on the block
out of stock
rock
sherlock
shock
stock
the clock
the Rock
unblock
unlock

Synonyms and antonyms of dock in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DOCK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dock» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dock

Translation of «dock» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOCK

Find out the translation of dock to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dock from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dock» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

码头
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dársena
570 millions of speakers

English

dock
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोदी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حَوْضُ السُّفْن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

док
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

doca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dock
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dok
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dock
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ドック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선거
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dock
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bến tàu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கப்பல்துறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोदी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

rıhtım
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

molo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dok
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

док
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

doc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποβάθρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beskuldigdebank
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

docka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

havn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dock

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOCK»

The term «dock» is very widely used and occupies the 7.487 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DOCK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dock» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dock» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dock

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10 QUOTES WITH «DOCK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dock.
1
Nelson Algren
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
2
Richard Ben-Veniste
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.
3
Linda M. Godwin
We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.
4
Arthur Goldberg
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
5
Tamer Hassan
I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!
6
Henry Lawson
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
7
Christine O'Donnell
I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.
8
Luanne Rice
I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
9
Eddie Vedder
I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.
10
Jess Walter
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOCK»

Discover the use of dock in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dock and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball
Donald Hall's forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis's story into a seamless whole.
Donald Hall, 2010
2
Hickory Dickory Dock
Keith Baker displays his trademark flair for color, movement, and rhythm in this vibrant adaptation of the familiar nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock.
Keith Baker, 2007
3
Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement
"Examines the life of Mira Lloyd Dock, a Pennsylvania conservationist and Progressive Era reformer. Explores a broad range of Dock's work, including forestry, municipal improvement, public health, and woman suffrage"--
Susan Rimby, 2012
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Boone's Dock Review 1.1
The first e-issue of Boone's Dock Review is a collection of short fiction by new talent on the literary scene, edited by Nancy Scuri. Authors in this issue include Brian Callaghan, Bobby Kvrgic, Anna Falcone, Phil Asaph and Max Wahrenburg.
‎2011
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The Story of Rosy Dock
A gentle ecological lesson about rosy dock, an imported garden plant that has become a tenacious inhabitant of the Australian desert, spreading until it now threatens many indigenous plants and animals with extinction.
Jeannie Baker, 1995
6
Justice in the Dock: Milton's Experimental Tragedy
The book is meant to attract readers interested in literature, moral philosophy, religion, or the historic roots of the modern sensibility, as well as readers specifically involved with Milton and his literary, intellectual, and religious ...
Harold Skulsky, 1995
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Case of the London Dock Company
III., are required to be landed at the London Dock ;—~and that upon the twelve principal articles received into the Dock, they amount, .upon the average, to only 9s. 2d. per Cent.* - Whatever may be the difference between those charges as ...
Simon COCK, 1825
8
The Dock Manual: Designing, Building, Maintaining
The Dock Manual is the only book devoted entirely to planning, constructing, and maintaining residential docks on rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Max Burns, 1999
9
Order-Fulfillment and Across-the-Dock Concepts, Design, and ...
An across-the-dock operation is a company strategy to establish a new supply- chain logistics strategy and to become more dynamic more and competitive. In the past, to handle flow-through pieces many retail companies have used a private ...
David E. Mulcahy, John Dieltz, 2003
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The Handbook of Sailing Techniques
vessel to a dock. Nylon rope is an excellent choice for making dock lines, as the inherent stretch in the line, especially if it is twisted rope, will make the arrangement less jerky. (Note that Dacron line will not stretch.) Each dock line should have ...
Twain Braden, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOCK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dock is used in the context of the following news items.
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Levee commission speaks out about Dock project
It's back to the drawing board for the old Dock restaurant in Davenport. The city terminated their agreement with developer Todd Raufeisen after ... «WQAD.com, Jul 15»
2
CFB Esquimalt to get $17.7M for upgrades to dry dock, housing …
Ten years ago, CFB Esquimalt had to put one of its two dry-dock caissons — the huge watertight gates that keep back the water during vessel ... «Times Colonist, Jul 15»
3
Accused 'leaps from dock', flees courthouse in desperate escape
Police and court security chased Ratcliffe, after he "leapt from the dock", but lost sight of the accused on McLean St. Sightings of the runaway, wearing a black ... «TVNZ, Jul 15»
4
Fishing dock grant is latest bone of contention in Kingston mayoral …
KINGSTON >> A top aide to Mayor Shayne Gallo has accused Gallo's Democratic primary challenger, Steve Noble, of fabricating time Noble ... «The Daily Freeman, Jul 15»
5
Initiated probe, but put in the dock now: Chouhan on Vyapam scam
Shivraj Singh Chouhan is being put in the dock but I am the person who started the probe. What do you mean by the word consequences? «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
6
Small cruise ship will dock right at the Digby wharf
The 184-foot ship will dock at the Digby wharf on the outside of the southernmost and passengers will be able to simply walk onto the wharf and ... «Nova News Now, Jul 15»
7
American Queen set to dock on riverfront
As organizers make final preparations for the boat to dock, they are seeking volunteers and volunteer groups to help clean the riverfront. «SaukValley.com, Jul 15»
8
Great Lakes Dredge amp; Dock Wins Two Projects in Gulf Coast
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD - Snapshot Report) has been awarded two projects in the Gulf Coast, one being a Shell Island ... «Zacks.com, Jul 15»
9
Eight places in south county to dock, drink and dine
Deck 84: Cleat off on the 150-foot dock on the west side of the Intracoastal, just south of the Atlantic Avenue bridge, and you'll usually find the ... «Palm Beach Post, Jul 15»
10
Councillor in the dock for alleged arson
Mbombela - A Mpumalanga ward councillor accused of leading a march in which the house, vehicle and shop belonging to a community ... «News24, Jul 15»

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