Dock
Pronunciation of Dock
/dˈɒk/, /dˈɒk/, /d_ˈɒ_k/
Synonyms for dock:
Sense 1
overboard, shipowner, shipload, marina, the ASPCA, dockyard, the N.S.P.C.A., veterinary, pontoon, veterinarian, veterinary surgeon, dry-dock, shipper, lay to, bill of lading, vaccinate, landing stage, haulier, seaborne, bill of entry, trucking, loading bay, landing place, shipment, logistics management, slipway, cargo, tare, tonnage, spay, hauler, edge, shipping agent.
Sense 2
landing, walk, shove off, packing, consignment, come about, shipping, truckload, basin, yaw, harbor.
Sense 3
founder, go about, handling, port, berth, neuter, put into, platform, welfare, hydroplane, freight, offload.
Sense 4
list, truck, cast off, handler, sail, unload, carriage, vet, merchant.
Sense 5
carrier, delivery.
Sense 6
Sense 7
put in.
Sense 8
tack.
Sense 9
handle, plunge.
Sense 16
Sense 18
Sense 20
pitch.
airfield
airport.
break water
cut short
clip.
dike
embankment.
jetty
breakwater.
land
put in.
landing
quay.
port
seaport.
roadstead
anchorage.
shorten
stay
anchor.
stump
stub.
Sense 1 (noun)
harbor, embankment, quay, jetty.
Sense 2 (noun)
basin, berth, dockyard, anchorage, dry-dock.
Sense 5 (noun)
carriage, carrier, delivery, consignment, freight, bill of entry, cargo, bill of lading.
Sense 6 (noun)
go about, hydroplane, come about, heel, ground, cast off, founder.
Sense 7 (noun)
spay, the ASPCA, fix, vet, vaccinate, the N.S.P.C.A., neuter.
dock (noun)
loading dock, tail, sour grass, pier, dockage, bobtail, sorrel, wharfage, bob, wharf, docking facility.
harbor (noun)
landing.
jetty (noun)
mooring (noun)
anchorage.
stub (noun)
stub.
waterfront (noun)
jetty, landing, pier, marina, quay, wharf, harbor, berth.
wharf (noun)
landing stage.
land on the waterfront (verb)
anchor, put in.
subtract (verb)
bob, decrease, elide, clip, lessen, crop, depreciate, deduct, discount, curtail, pare, abridge, shave, diminish, trim, subtract, shear, cut, weed, reduce, prune, delete, lower.
Usage examples for dock:
- We're going into dock, and I think you'd better go to the hotel. - "In the Yellow Sea", Henry Frith.
- He says that it's making water even in dock, and that some of the hands say that they won't go back in her. - "The Firm of Girdlestone", Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Q. And from the dock at Charleston to the pilot- boat? - "Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York", A. F. Warburton.