Ana vs Dock - What's the difference?
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A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
* 1803 , publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson ,
* 1903', , Franklin B. Sawvel (editor), ''The complete '''anas of Thomas Jefferson , Round Table Press, New York
* 2008 , Kevin J. Hayes, The road to Monticello: The life and mind of Thomas Jefferson ,
(in prescriptions ) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or contracted to aa), / ij. (that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces).
(Internet, slang) Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement).
In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
* 1985 , Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes (page 43)
* 2005 , Animation journal (volumes 13-15)
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially the common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
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A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
(obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
To cut off, bar, or destroy.
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A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
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*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
The body of water between two piers.
A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
A section of a hotel or restaurant.
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(lb) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station ), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
An act of docking; joining two things together.
To land at a harbour.
* 29 February 2012 , Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17213948]
To join two moving items.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
As a noun ana
is .As a proper noun dock is
(us|rare|dated) (male) or nickname.ana
English
Etymology 1
Formed from the (etyl) suffix (-ana); compare ism (from ).Noun
(en noun)Page 8
- The FRENCH ANAS', or Selections from the best of the French ' Anas , interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards
- Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas , which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum , a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.
Etymology 2
From Greek (aná), of each .Adverb
(-)Etymology 3
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* pro-anaEtymology 4
(etyl); see (ana-).Adverb
(en adverb)- Your right half would move ana , let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.
- Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.
Antonyms
* kataAnagrams
* English palindromes ----dock
English
(wikipedia dock)Etymology 1
(etyl) dokke, from (etyl) docce, from (etyl) - ‘dark’ (compare Latvian duga ‘scum, slime on water’).Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology'', s.v. “*?ukk?n” (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 78.William Morris, ed., ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', coll. edn., s.v. “dock4” (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979), 387; Calvert Watkins, ed., “Indo-European Roots”, Appendix, ''AHD , s.v. “dheu-1”, 1513.Noun
(en noun)- And vnder neath him his courageous steed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks [...].
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Etymology 2
(etyl) dok, from (etyl) -docca (as in fingirdoccana'' (genitive pl.) ‘finger muscles’), from (etyl) ‘to blow’).Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Docke” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).Noun
(en noun)- (Grew)
Verb
(en verb)References
Etymology 3
From (etyl) dock ‘mud channel’, from (etyl) docke ‘channel’ (modern dok ‘lock (canal)’), from Old Italian (term) ‘conduit, canal’ or ducta, ductus ‘id.’. More at douche and duct.Marlies Philippa et al., eds., Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands , A-Z, s.v. “dok” (Amsterdam UP, 3 Dec. 2009):Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (body of water between piers) slip * (structure for loading and unloading vessels) wharf, quayHypernyms
* (structure at shore to which vessel is secured) mooring, moorageVerb
(en verb)- On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
