(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.
Sock
Definition:
(n.) A plowshare.
(n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
(n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
(n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) She's found what is her true vocation and she's working her socks off."
(2) City wear their customary home colours of light blue shirts, white shorts and white socks.
(3) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
(4) But people who don't, they'll pick that sock up from off the floor.
(5) He hasn't nicked stuff from you, been sick in your sock drawer, sworn at your mother or made a pass at your girlfriend.
(6) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
(7) A database of fast MP and BP was compiled from intraoperative recordings collected from epicardial sock arrays in man.
(8) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
(9) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(10) The city of free love has passed laws banning public nudity, which men get around with a carefully hung sock.
(11) I followed him to a room on a ßoor which I didn't know existed and he told me to take off my shoes and enter alone in my socks.
(12) Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills.
(13) Her feet, swollen by bad circulation, were clad only in socks as she heard the ruling delivered at the House of Lords.
(14) Our brothers, with their cool logic (despite their penchant for mismatched socks), and our ruthlessly honest best mates.
(15) After a hard-fought victory one freezing night last November the jubilant forward sprinted off the pitch and hurled his shirt, shorts, socks and boots into the crowd, Sun, the chairman, recalled.
(16) In no case did an accessory pathway fail to conduct following sock placement.
(17) They are wearing all blue, while the Socceroos are in their gold shirts, white socks and, thank goodness, green shorts.
(18) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
(19) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
(20) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).