noun
Meaning 1
A summary; a brief digest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
docket
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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UK: /ˈdɒk.ɪt/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈdɑ.kɪt/
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Australian: /ˈdɔk.ɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: D AA1 K AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 3
A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 4
An agenda of things to be done.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A receipt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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verb
Meaning 7
To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To label a parcel, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to docket goods
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verb
Meaning 9
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to docket letters and papers
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verb
Meaning 10
To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- judgments regularly docketed
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noun
Meaning 11
a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: agenda, schedule
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plan, program, programme
Narrower terms: menu, fare
noun
Meaning 12
(law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: calendar
verb
Meaning 13
make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sum up, summarize, summarise, resume
verb
Meaning 14
place on the docket for legal action
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: put, set, place, pose, position, lay
History
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Prozessregister — short entry of the proceedings of a court
- Italian: registro sentenze — short entry of the proceedings of a court
- Italian: ruolo — short entry of the proceedings of a court
- Polish: wokanda — short entry of the proceedings of a court
- Czech: soudní kalendář — schedule of cases in a court
- Czech: soupis soudních případů — schedule of cases in a court
- German: Prozessliste — schedule of cases in a court
- Italian: ruolino — schedule of cases in a court
- Polish: wokanda — schedule of cases in a court