dock
Pronunciation
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- (countable) A dock is solid a place for boats and other vehicles to connect to.
- The truck backed slowing in to the hotel loading dock with a load of vegetables.
- She ran down the wooden dock to the waiting boat.
Verb
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- (transitive & intransitive) If a boat or other vehicle docks, it connects to a dock.
- (transitive) If you dock someone's pay, you don't pay them the full amount as a punishment.
- (transitive & intransitive) If you dock two computers, you connect them using a wire.