docket
/ˈdɑ.kɪt/ verb C2- To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
- To label a parcel, etc. · to docket goods
- To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize. · to docket letters and papers
- To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book. · judgments regularly docketed
He/she/it dockets · Past docketed · Past participle docketed · -ing form docketing
Verb forms
- Base form
- docket
- He/she/it
- dockets
- Past
- docketed
- Past participle
- docketed
- -ing form
- docketing
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On the table in front of them were piled a number of letters and telegrams, which they were carefully sorting and docketing.
It was one of the peculiarities of his proud, self-contained nature that, though he docketed any fresh information very quickly and accurately in his brain, he seldom made any acknowledgment to the giver.
He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
“To remember it—to docket it.
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