as in wharf
a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers
the boat remained tied up at the dock for a week, waiting for the weather to clear
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as in to shorten
to make less in extent or duration
the editorial was docked by about a hundred words to make it fit on the page
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as in to shave
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument
the boxer's tail was docked soon after birth
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as in to land
to stop at or near a place along the shore
the cruise ship docked at the first port of call early the next morning
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Recent Examples of dock
Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
Urea fertilizer is sorted at a dock before being loaded onto ships for export at a port in Shandong province, China, on Thursday.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
The Switch 2 can output 4K60 (or 1080p120 graphics while docked), depending on the game and settings.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Their ample traction provides security on slippery docks (or sidewalks) and the squishy yoga mat-like insole molds to your natural arch.
—Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
Urea fertilizer is sorted at a dock before being loaded onto ships for export at a port in Shandong province, China, on Thursday.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
The billionaire spacewalker slid in a new Artemis III for 2027 so astronauts could practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander in orbit around Earth.
—Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
The Switch 2 can output 4K60 (or 1080p120 graphics while docked), depending on the game and settings.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
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Pan captured 243 photographs and 13 videos of payload-processing facilities, munitions bunkers, security checkpoints, mission-control centers, fuel and ordnance storage sites, and the nuclear submarine wharf.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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The first responders arrived to find a vehicle submerged in about 10 feet of water just off the wharf parking lot.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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In 1903, a vicious winter storm reduced most of the piers to splinters, and by 1906 offshore oil production at Summerland had all but ceased.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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SkyCal was overhead as a large group of people waited at the end of the pier while law enforcement personnel swept the pier.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Ten 35-pound wreckfish — enormous silver deep-water dwellers that live down to 650 feet — are filleted and bagged on a large stainless-steel table on the quay.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Waiting at the quay were water taxis for hotel guests.—
Vic O'Sullivan,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Dock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dock. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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