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Dock may refer to:
In transportation
- Dock (maritime), a structure for handling ships
- Drydock, a basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
- Ferry slip, a docking facility that receives a ferryboat
- Floating dock, a dock resting on pontoons
- Harbor
- Jetty
- Marina
- Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
- Pontoon (boat), a buoyant device, used to support docks or floating bridges
- Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
- Loading dock or cargo bay, an unloading area for trucks to deliver cargo
- Space rendezvous, if it includes docking
- Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman
In natural sciences
- Dock or tailhead, where the tail joins the rump (animal)
- Docking (animal), the removal of part of an animal, often tail or ears
- Docking (dog)
- Docking as human corporal punishment
- Dock, the plant genus Rumex
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- Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), narrow-leaved dock
- Rumex crispus, curly dock or curled dock
- Rumex obtusifolius, broadleaf dock or butter dock
In molecular biology
- DOCK (protein) (dedicator of cytokinesis), a family of proteins involved in cell signalling
- Docking (molecular), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other in a bimolecular complex
- DOCK (UCSF), the docking program
In computing
- Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature
- Docking station, for a portable computer
Places
- Docking, Norfolk, a village in East Anglia, England
- The Dock, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- The Dock, Washington, D.C., United States
- The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The former name of Devonport, Devon, now a part of the city of Plymouth
Other
- Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren), a UK manga illustrator
- Docking (sexual practice)
- The place where the defendant stands in a British courtroom (see the layout of courts in Scotland) hence the expression "in the dock"
- To pierce dough during its handling to prevent the formation of large air pockets, such as with a roller docker
See also
- Dox: various meanings including a supposed hybrid between a dog and a fox
- DOC (disambiguation)
- Docklands (disambiguation)
- Docs (disambiguation)
- Hohe Dock, one of the highest peaks in the Glockner Group of the Austrian Alps
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