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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɒk/
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• Australian, British, Scotland, Southern, Standard: /dɔk/
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• General-American: /dɑk/
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• rhymes with -ɒk
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• homophone: doc
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• homophone: Doc
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• homophone: dark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: D AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, possibly from the noun duck. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). * As a German surname, spelling variant of Docke, related to the noun Tuch (“cloth, piece of fabric”).

From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dhew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).

A dog with a partially docked (etymology 2, verb sense 1) tail From Middle English dok (“trimmed hair, dock”), from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingerdocce (“finger muscles”)), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dheu-k- (“to spin, shake”). Compare Icelandic dokkur (“stumpy tail”), Low German Dokke (“bundle of straw”), West Frisian dok (“bunch, ball (twine)”), Albanian dak (“big ram”), Lithuanian dvė̃kti (“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas (“breath”), Sanskrit धुक्षति (dhukṣati, “to blow”). The verb is from Middle English dokken (“to cut short, dock, curtail”), derived from the noun.

A laptop docking (etymology 3, noun sense 5) station A GUI dock (etymology 3, noun sense 6) on Linux From Early Modern English meaning "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from either Dutch dok (“dock, wharf”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, wharf”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Danish dok, Dutch dok, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Low German Dock, Swedish docka. Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”), making dock a doublet of douche and duct. An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic or Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk, dökð (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”); compare Icelandic dökk, Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”). If so, this would make dock a doublet of dank.

Originally criminal slang; from or akin to obsolete Dutch (West Flemish) dok (“cage, hutch”) or docke (“cage”), possibly from Middle Dutch docke (“block, wooden object”), related to Middle Low German docke (“tenon, banister rod, bench cheek, side panel of a pew”), of uncertain origin.

270 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lëpjetë — any plant in genus Rumex
• Armenian: ավելուկ (aveluk) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Armenian: թրթնջուկ (tʻrtʻnǰuk) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Armenian: թթվաշ (tʻtʻvaš) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Bashkir: ҡуҙғалаҡ (quźğalaq) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Basque: mingarratz — any plant in genus Rumex
• Basque: uztao — any plant in genus Rumex
• Breton: teal — any plant in genus Rumex
• Bulgarian: ла́пад (lápad) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Catalan: romàs — any plant in genus Rumex
• Catalan: paradella — any plant in genus Rumex
• Cornish: tavol — any plant in genus Rumex
• Czech: šťovík — any plant in genus Rumex
• Danish: skræppe — any plant in genus Rumex
• Dutch: zuring — any plant in genus Rumex
• Finnish: hierakka — any plant in genus Rumex
• French: patience — any plant in genus Rumex
• French: parelle — any plant in genus Rumex
• Galician: labaza — any plant in genus Rumex
• Galician: lampaza — any plant in genus Rumex
• German: Ampfer — any plant in genus Rumex
• Greek: λάπατο (lápato) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Hungarian: sóska — any plant in genus Rumex
• Icelandic: súra — any plant in genus Rumex
• Irish: copóg — any plant in genus Rumex
• Italian: romice — any plant in genus Rumex
• Italian: lapazio — any plant in genus Rumex
• Japanese: 酸葉 (suiba) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Japanese: 羊蹄 (gishigishi) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Luxembourgish: Ampel — any plant in genus Rumex
• Māori: paewhenua — any plant in genus Rumex
• Māori: paenehua — any plant in genus Rumex
• Māori: runa — any plant in genus Rumex
• Navajo: chaatʼíní — any plant in genus Rumex
• Occitan: agreta — any plant in genus Rumex
• Occitan: vineta — any plant in genus Rumex
• Polish: szczaw — any plant in genus Rumex
• Portuguese: azeda — any plant in genus Rumex
• Portuguese: labaça — any plant in genus Rumex
• Romansh: fegliascha — any plant in genus Rumex
• Russian: щаве́ль (ščavélʹ) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Russian: ща́вель (ščávelʹ) — any plant in genus Rumex
• Scottish Gaelic: copag — any plant in genus Rumex
• Spanish: acedera — any plant in genus Rumex
• Spanish: romaza — any plant in genus Rumex
• Spanish: vinagrera — any plant in genus Rumex
• Swedish: skräppa — any plant in genus Rumex
• Vietnamese: chút chít — any plant in genus Rumex
• Welsh: tafol — any plant in genus Rumex
• Welsh: dail tafol — any plant in genus Rumex
• Bulgarian: ре́пей (répej) — burdock
• Czech: lopuch — burdock
• Dutch: klit — burdock
• Finnish: takiainen — burdock
• French: bardane — burdock
• Galician: labaza — burdock
• Galician: lampaza — burdock
• German: Klette — burdock
• Hungarian: bojtorján — burdock
• Japanese: 牛蒡 (gobō) — burdock
• Māori: runa — burdock
• Māori: paewhenua — burdock
• Polish: łopian — burdock
• Russian: лопу́х (lopúx) — burdock
• Russian: репе́й (repéj) — burdock
• Russian: репе́йник (repéjnik) — burdock
• Danish: halerod — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Finnish: hännäntyvi — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Finnish: hännäntynkä — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Russian: ре́пица (répica) — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Spanish: maslo — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Spanish: mástel (disused) — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Spanish: penca — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Spanish: rabadilla — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Spanish: curcusilla — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Spanish: obispillo — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Spanish: mitra — fleshy root of an animal's tail
• Belarusian: прыча́л (pryčál) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Belarusian: док (dok) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Belarusian: пры́стань (prýstanʹ) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Belarusian: пірс (pirs) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Bulgarian: при́стан (prístan) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Burmese: ဆိပ် (hcip) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Catalan: moll — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Chinese Mandarin: 碼頭 /码头 (mǎtóu) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Czech: dok — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Danish: dok — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Danish: kaj — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Danish: anløbsbro — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Esperanto: doko — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Finnish: pollari — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Finnish: kiinnityskohta — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• French: darse — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Galician: peirao — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Galician: caes — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Georgian: ნავსაშენი (navsašeni) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• German: Steg — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• German: Bootssteg — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• German: Anlegesteg — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Greek: νεωδόχος (neodóchos) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Greek: ντοκ (ntok) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Hindi: गोदी (godī) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Hungarian: stég — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Italian: molo — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Japanese: 埠頭 (futō) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Khmer: ផែ (phae) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Korean: 부두 (budu) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Lao: ທ່າ (thā) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Latin: navale — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Malay: demaga — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Malayalam: തുറ (tuṟa) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Māori: wāpu — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Māori: ūnga — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Norwegian Bokmål: brygge — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brygge — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bryggje — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Polish: dok — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Portuguese: doca — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Russian: прича́л (pričál) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Russian: док (dok) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Russian: при́стань (prístanʹ) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Russian: пирс (pirs) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Spanish: puerto — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Spanish: muelle — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Spanish: dársena — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Spanish: pantalán — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Swahili: gati class V/VI — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Swedish: brygga — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Swedish: pir — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Swedish: kaj — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Swedish: docka — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Thai: ท่า (tâa) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Ottoman Turkish: اسكله (iskele) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Ottoman Turkish: ریختم (rıhtım) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Ukrainian: прича́л (pryčál) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Ukrainian: док (dok) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Ukrainian: при́стань (prýstanʹ) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Ukrainian: при́плав (prýplav) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Ukrainian: пірс (pirs) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Yiddish: דאָק (dok) — fixed structure to which a vessel is secured
• Basque: nasa — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Bulgarian: док (dok) — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Catalan: dàrsena — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Czech: dok — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Dutch: dok — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Finnish: satama-allas — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Finnish: tokka — body of water between two piers or wharves
• French: darse — body of water between two piers or wharves
• German: Dock — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Hebrew: מַעֲגָן (ma'agán) — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Hungarian: dokk — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Japanese: ドック (dokku) — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Japanese: 船渠 (senkyo) — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Korean: 독 (dok) — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Portuguese: doca — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Russian: док (dok) — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Spanish: dársena — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Swedish: docka — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Yiddish: דאָק (dok) — body of water between two piers or wharves
• Finnish: -puoli — section of a hotel or restaurant
• Finnish: -piste — section of a hotel or restaurant
• German: Kaffeebar — section of a hotel or restaurant
• German: Kaffeestube — section of a hotel or restaurant
• Bulgarian: док (dok) — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• Finnish: telakka — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• French: socle — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• German: Andockstation — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• German: Dockingstation — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• Irish: leaba nasctha — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• Irish: stáisiún nasctha — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• Japanese: ドック (dokku) — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• Russian: док (dok) — device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance
• Chinese Mandarin: 任務欄 /任务栏 (rènwùlán) — toolbar for launching and switching between applications
• Finnish: telakka — toolbar for launching and switching between applications
• Japanese: ドック (dokku) — toolbar for launching and switching between applications
• Korean: 독 (dok) — toolbar for launching and switching between applications
• Russian: пане́ль зада́ч (panɛ́lʹ zadáč) — toolbar for launching and switching between applications
• Bulgarian: закачане (zakačane) — act of joining two items together
• Bulgarian: снаждане (snaždane) — act of joining two items together
• Bulgarian: съединяване (sǎedinjavane) — act of joining two items together
• Danish: kobling — act of joining two items together
• Finnish: liittäminen — act of joining two items together
• Finnish: telakointi — act of joining two items together
• Russian: стыко́вка (stykóvka) — act of joining two items together
• Russian: соедине́ние (sojedinénije) — act of joining two items together
• Spanish: acoplamiento — act of joining two items together
• Belarusian: ла́ва падсу́дных (láva padsúdnyx) — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Bulgarian: подсъди́ма скаме́йка (podsǎdíma skaméjka) — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Chinese Mandarin: 被告席 (bèigàoxí) — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Czech: lavice obžalovaných — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Danish: anklagebænk — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Dutch: beklaagdenbank — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Finnish: syytetyn aitio — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• French: banc des accusés — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• German: Anklagebank — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Hungarian: vádlottak padja — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Italian: banco degli imputati — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Japanese: 被告席 (hikokuseki) — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Korean: 피고석 (pigoseok) — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Māori: pāka — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Māori: pākaka — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Polish: ława oskarżonych — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Portuguese: banco dos réus — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Russian: скамья́ подсуди́мых (skamʹjá podsudímyx) — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Slovak: lavica obžalovaných — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Spanish: banquillo — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Spanish: banquillo de los acusados — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Spanish: sillete — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Swedish: anklagades bänk — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Turkish: sanık sandalyesi — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Ukrainian: ла́ва підсу́дних (láva pidsúdnyx) — part of a courtroom where the accused sits
• Bulgarian: подрязвам (podrjazvam) — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Danish: kupere — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Danish: studse — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Dutch: couperen — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Finnish: typistää — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• German: kupieren — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Norwegian: kupere — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Portuguese: derrabar — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Russian: подреза́ть (podrezátʹ) — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Russian: подре́зать (podrézatʹ) — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Russian: укора́чивать (ukoráčivatʹ) — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Russian: укороти́ть (ukorotítʹ) — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Spanish: descolar — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Spanish: desrabar — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Spanish: desrabotar — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Spanish: rabotear — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Spanish: derrabar — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Swedish: kupera — to cut off a section of an animal's tail
• Bulgarian: орязвам (orjazvam) — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Czech: srazit — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Danish: beskære — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Danish: trække fra — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Finnish: alentaa — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Finnish: leikata — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Finnish: vähentää — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Russian: уреза́ть (urezátʹ) — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Russian: уре́зать (urézatʹ) — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Russian: сокраща́ть (sokraščátʹ) — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Russian: сократи́ть (sokratítʹ) — to reduce wages; to deduct
• Catalan: atracar — to land at a harbour
• Czech: přistát — to land at a harbour
• Danish: gå i havn — to land at a harbour
• Danish: lægge til kaj — to land at a harbour
• Danish: dokke — to land at a harbour
• Dutch: aanmeren — to land at a harbour
• Dutch: afmeren — to land at a harbour
• Finnish: kiinnittyä — to land at a harbour
• Galician: atracar — to land at a harbour
• German: anlegen — to land at a harbour
• Hebrew: עגן (agán) — to land at a harbour
• Hungarian: kiköt — to land at a harbour
• Italian: attraccare — to land at a harbour
• Norman: amather — to land at a harbour
• Polish: dokować — to land at a harbour
• Portuguese: atracar — to land at a harbour
• Russian: прича́ливать (pričálivatʹ) — to land at a harbour
• Russian: прича́лить (pričálitʹ) — to land at a harbour
• Spanish: recalar — to land at a harbour
• Spanish: arribar — to land at a harbour
• Swedish: komma i hamn — to land at a harbour
• Danish: sammenkoble — to join two moving items
• Finnish: telakoida — to join two moving items
• Finnish: telakoitua — to join two moving items
• German: ankoppeln — to join two moving items
• German: andocken — to join two moving items
• Russian: стыкова́ть (stykovátʹ) — to join two moving items
• Russian: состыкова́ть (sostykovátʹ) — to join two moving items
• Swedish: docka — to join two moving items
• Turkish: kenetlemek — to join two moving items