docking

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From Old English docce (“dock, a weedy plant”) + -ing.

From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.

Etymology tree English dock Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English docking From dock + -ing.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Danish: kupering — process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal
• Danish: studsning — process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal
• Finnish: typistäminen — process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal
• French: caudectomie — process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal
• Italian: caudotomia — process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal
• Italian: taglio della coda — process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal
• Polish: kopiowanie — process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal
• Ukrainian: купірування (kupiruvannja) — process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal
• Catalan: amarrada — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Catalan: amarrament — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Danish: dokning — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Finnish: kiinnittyminen — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Finnish: kiinnittäminen — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• French: amarrage — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Italian: ormeggio — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Italian: attracco — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Italian: approdo — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Norwegian Bokmål: dokking — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dokking — securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
• Catalan: amarrament — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Chinese Mandarin: 對接 /对接 (duìjiē) — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Danish: sammenkobling — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Finnish: telakoituminen — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Finnish: telakointi — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• French: amarrage — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• German: Docking — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Italian: aggancio — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Italian: attracco — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Japanese: ドッキング (dokkingu) — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Polish: dokowanie — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Portuguese: acoplamento — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Russian: стыко́вка (stykóvka) — process of connecting one spacecraft to another
• Dutch: docking — sex act
• Finnish: telakoituminen — sex act
• German: Docking — sex act
• Japanese: ドッキング — sex act
• Finnish: telakointi — (molecular biology)
• Italian: aggancio molecolare — (molecular biology)