(n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
(n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting.
(n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
(v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
(v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
(v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
(n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
(n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
(n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
(v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(2) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(3) Our findings suggest that a physiological role of the alpha-latrotoxin receptor may be the docking of synaptic vesicles at the active zone.
(4) Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Joyce, who assaulted a colleague in a Commons bar in 2012, had his card blocked when he owed £12,919.61, and later had his salary docked.
(5) However, John's first stage success, A Dock Brief – set in the cells, where an incompetent barrister counsels himself and his convicted client – was rooted in his own nervousness about failure and his permanent terror at having responsibility for another's fate.
(6) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
(7) Macedonia acted as a Greek car ferry docked in Athens carrying 2,400 Syrian refugees from the island of Kos, just some of the 50,000 Middle Eastern, African and Asian migrants and refugees who arrived in Greece in July alone.
(8) Starting from the extra electron density map of peptides co-crystallized with HLA-A2, the nonapeptide IMP58-66 was docked residue by residue in the protein binding cleft.
(9) But like the capital's other docks, the Royal Albert fell into decline in the 1950s.
(10) The impressive views take in West Angle Bay, Rat Island and the whole length of Milford Haven and Man of War Roads, a 15km ship-teeming passage leading from Dale all the way to Pembroke Dock.
(11) 'Froch, Dock, Hoch - whatever his name is - has been making his name on the back of my son for the last six years, He's not even on our rostrum, let me tell you.
(12) Cross-linking experiments confirmed that lysine residues on the alpha-subunit, but not the beta-subunit, are involved in the 'docking' process between the proteins.
(13) The eight people in the dock had been arrested following clashes between protesters and riot police at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on 6 May 2012, the eve of Vladimir Putin's third inauguration as Russian president.
(14) Significant increments in mean plasma cortisol levels followed these surgical procedures with the maximal response 15 min after mulesing plus castration with tail docking.
(15) He passed her to his brother and friends, and over time gave her as payment to men for debts he owed.” Also in the dock were brothers Sajid Bostan, 38, and Majid Bostan, 37, associates of the Hussain brothers, and two women, Karen MacGregor, 58, and Shelley Davies, 40, who associated with one another and with Ali and Arshid Hussain.
(16) Formation of the hydrophobic core by docking helix and sheet is (partly) rate determining.
(17) Sitting in a cafe overlooking Swansea docks, Shorrock said he wants Swansea Bay up and running in 2019-20, with larger schemes in Cardiff and Newport by 2022-23 and, if possible, more after that.
(18) The 46-kDa fragment was neither able to reassociate with nor to reconstitute the activity of docking protein-depleted microsomes.
(19) 'I was politicised by the docks': the rise of Len McCluskey Read more Unite is Britain’s biggest union, with 1.4 million members, and provided Corbyn’s 2015 campaign for leadership with £175,000 as well as office space.
(20) Oscar Pistorius rubs his face as he sits in the dock during his ongoing murder trial at a packed high court in Pretoria on May 5.
Jetty
Definition:
(a.) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
(n.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
(n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
(n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
(v. i.) To jut out; to project.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
(2) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
(3) Can a rail line – which according to longstanding projections needs to be a 60m-tonnes-a-year operation to be viable – or a jetty be half built?
(4) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
(5) Commander Gavin Edward, coordinating the ship’s arrival on the jetty at Taranto, southern Italy, said: “The speed with which the Italian Red Cross, police and government officials have received these survivors has been really impressive and as a result we should be able to set sail later this afternoon.” Inside the towering grey sides of the amphibious warship, the 450 members of the ship’s company were preparing to return to its search and rescue mission.
(6) The ship will dock at a refurbished oil jetty; chiefly, says Safe Haven, because using a pre-existing site made things much cheaper.
(7) "We can head over there and then skin down that long bank south of it and around past the jetties at the mouth and anchor in a little hook inside the rocks where it'll be calm.
(8) 2 Continue on the road with the launch jetties and lake on your right until the tarmac road runs out.
(9) But this small beast, tethered to a jetty at Faslane naval base, is a deadly one: it is one quarter of Trident , Britain's nuclear deterrent.
(10) The place where he asked me to marry him, by the water as the sun set, was the same jetty where we had sat under the full moon and begun our relationship.
(11) For it to become habitable again, the islanders will need a new jetty, houses, a water purification scheme and some form of employment, either fishing or a resumption of the coconut trade.
(12) The money will fund infrastructure construction – including the building of sea walls and jetties – at Faslane over the next 10 years, with most of the work expected to start in 2017.
(13) It was empty on Tuesday afternoon save for a lone fisherman at a jetty that was ringed by parked law enforcement vehicles.
(14) Borrow canoes, a dinghy or stand-up paddleboards from the floating jetty, or hang out in the sauna or the gardens.
(15) By the jetty, friendly Café Janoca (meals from €15) will overfeed you with pleasure.
(16) In the case of Abbot Point, dredging will be used to expand what is essentially a simple jetty jutting out into the sea into one of the world’s largest coal ports.
(17) Culatra feels like the start of a love affair right from the moment we nudge alongside its long slender jetty.
(18) Photograph: Alamy Felix sits on the jetty, legs swaying aimlessly a few feet above the water.
(19) One of the best places to moor is the jetty of this taverna in the bay of San Stefano.
(20) Ultimately, the US response to swarming will be to use American dominance in the air and multitudes of precision-guided missiles to escalate rapidly and dramatically, wiping out every Iranian missile site, radar, military harbour and jetty on the coast.