dockyard

As nouns the difference between wharf and dockyard

is that wharf is a man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank while dockyard is a place where ships are repaired or outfitted.

As a verb quay

is enclose, surround, encircle.

As a noun dockyard is

a place where ships are repaired]] or [[outfit|outfitted.

As nouns the difference between slipway and dockyard

is that slipway is (nautical) a sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched while dockyard is a place where ships are repaired]] or [[outfit|outfitted.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and dockyard

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while dockyard is a place where ships are repaired]] or [[outfit|outfitted.