Dock vs Stead - 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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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.
(label) A place, or spot, in general.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene , II:
*:For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead , / But restlesse walketh all the world around.
(label) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.
*1633 , P. Fletcher, Purple Island :
*:There now the hart, fearlesse of greyhound, feeds, / And loving pelican in safety breeds; / There shrieking satyres fill the people's emptie steads .
(label) A specific place or point on a body or other surface.
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*:Thus they fought two houres& in many stedys they were wounded.
(label) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.
(label) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm.
*1889 , H. Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife :
*:But of course I could not do this by myself, so I took a Hottentot—a very clever man when he was not drunk—who lived on the stead , into my confidence.
(label) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The genial bed / Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead .
*1818 , Jane Austen, Persuasion :
*:She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead !
*2011 , "Kin selection", The Economist , 31 March:
*:Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead .
Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases).
*2010 , Dan van der Vat, The Guardian , 19 September:
*:Though small and delicate-looking, she gave an impression of intense earnestness and latent toughness, qualities that stood her in good stead when she dared to challenge the most intrusive communist society in eastern Europe.
To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
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To fill place of.
As a proper noun dock
is (us|rare|dated) (male) or nickname.As a noun stead is
(label) a place, or spot, in general.As a verb stead is
to help; to support; to benefit; to assist.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'.stead
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bedstead * homestead * in good stead * in one's stead * instead * sunstead * worksteadVerb
(en verb)- Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much: [...]