(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.
Seaport
Definition:
(n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plans for an airport, a seaport and numerous joint Israeli-Palestinian projects in Gaza were in full swing when Hamas took over in 2006 and violently removed the Palestinian Authority, declaring it would not recognise Israel and proceeding to wage war on its civilians.
(2) The positive rodents were found in Lushoto, Mbulu, Chunya and Monduli districts, as well as at Tanga seaport.
(3) Our position has always been that we’re not in favour of getting this done at the seaport.
(4) • In the Pacific Northwest, young people, Native American tribes, and others are mobilizing to stop the rail transport of huge quantities of Wyoming Powder River Basin coal to Northwest seaports for export to Asia.
(5) It is not just for an airport, but a new tidal barrier to protect London from flooding, a high-speed orbital railway that would roughly follow the path of the M25, and railway connections to seaports and northern cities.
(6) Its responsibility is to enforce criminal law at airports and seaports, ensuring that those facilities are not used for illicit activity.
(7) The demand for a seaport was reportedly agreed in principle, but detailed discussions have been deferred for at least a month.
(8) Field and commensal rodents and shrews were live-trapped from selected areas in each of the six zones of the Republic, namely North-eastern, Eastern, Central-western, South-western, Southern and Seaports.
(9) He turned Singapore from a small seaport into a bustling metropolis, rife with skyscrapers and its own casino.
(10) Now Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who stood alongside Beckham and MLS commissioner Don Gerber in February as the retired star made his long expected formal announcement that he was exercising his right to buy a start-up MLS franchise , has joined those keen to steer him away from the previously preferred seaport site.
(11) Security will be one of the biggest challenges, not least in Balochistan, home of the Gwadar seaport and a decade-old separatist insurgency.
(12) Immigration and border control staff at Australia’s air and seaports have overwhelmingly voted down the government’s latest pay offer and will continue to take industrial action.
(13) The construction of the new airport, together with extensive reclamation of the harbour and expansion of seaport facilities, will create changes in the tidal flow and the ecological system.
(14) In the RSA most cases of psittacosis have resulted from contact with budgerigars and cockatiels, but outbreaks have been associated with imported batches of birds including South American parrots and Australian finches, emphasizing the need for vigilance at seaports.
(15) When it was an important seaport, Trieste was an affluent city, but today most citizens view its decline as irreversible and consequently try to enjoy the present.
(16) The International Association of Airport and Seaport Police is an international organization comprised of law enforcement agencies.
(17) Both venereal disease and cervical cancer mortality are more common in urban areas and around seaports than in the country as a whole.
(18) We felt that planned destruction of power plants, and interference with rail and telephone communications, would tend to scare away capital from the country, make it more difficult for goods from the industrial areas to reach the seaports on schedule, and would in the long run be a heavy drain on the economic life of the country, thus compelling the voters of the country to reconsider their position.
(19) Husni Mansoor arrived in Aden, a seaport city in Yemen, in March.
(20) Since vector capability for malaria does exist on Guam, quarantine procedures at the air and seaports combined with public health disease surveillance and an integrated anopheline control program are recommended for the island.