Dock vs Ship - What's the difference?
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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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, 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.
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, title= (computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
(chiefly, in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
(archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
(label) To send by water-borne transport.
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, title= (label) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
(label) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
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(label) To embark on a ship.
To put in its place.
(label) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
(label) To pass (from one person to another).
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, title= To go all in.
(label) To trade or send a player to another team.
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, title= (fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
(fandom) To write fiction that includes fictional romantic relationships between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
In transitive terms the difference between dock and ship
is that dock is to cut off, bar, or destroy while ship is to pass (from one person to another).In intransitive terms the difference between dock and ship
is that dock is to land at a harbour while ship is to embark on a ship.As a proper noun Dock
is a given name or nickname.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
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Etymology 4
Originally criminal slang; from or akin to Dutch (Flemish) (dok) 'cage, hutch'.ship
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ship, schip, from (etyl) scip, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) skip, (etyl) schip, (etyl) Schiff, (etyl) .Alternative forms
* shippe (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Tyndale)
Usage notes
* The singular form (term) is sometimes used without any , producing such sentences as "In all, we spent three weeks aboard ship." and "Abandon ship!". (Similar patterns may be seen with many place nouns, such as (camp), (home), (work), and (school), but the details vary between them.) * Ships are traditionally regarded as feminine and the pronouns (her) and (she) are normally used instead of (it).Hyponyms
*Derived terms
* abandon ship * airship * battleship * cargo ship * coffin ship * cruise ship * escort ship * fireship * Her Majesty's Ship, His Majesty's Ship * jump ship * merchant ship * midship, midships * mother ship * sailing ship * ship ahoy! * shipboard * ship-breaker * shipbuilder * shipbuilding * ship canal * ship chandler * ship fever * shipload * shipmate * shipmaster * shipowner * ship's company * shipshape * ships that pass in the night * ship-to-shore * shipwise * shipwreck * shipwright * shipyard * sinking ship * sister ship * slave ship * spaceship * starship * tall ship * tight ship * transport ship * warshipVerb
(shipp)- The timber wasshipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
- With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped , have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be;
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}
Derived terms
* shipment * shippage (rare)Etymology 2
From (relationship).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(shipp)- I ship Kirk and Spock in my ''Star Trek'' fan fiction.