dock
/dɑk/ verb C2- To land at a harbour.
- To join two moving items. · to dock spacecraft
- To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- 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.
He/she/it docks · Past docked · Past participle docked · -ing form docking
Verb forms
- Base form
- dock
- He/she/it
- docks
- Past
- docked
- Past participle
- docked
- -ing form
- docking
From the library
You hope to place me in the dock.
I tell you that I will never stand in the dock.
I could not shoot him at sight, or I should myself be in the dock.
During the scene of tumult, Andrea had turned his smiling face towards the assembly; then, leaning with one hand on the oaken rail of the dock, in the most graceful attitude possible, he said:
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