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Docker vs Docket - What's the difference?

docker | docket |

As nouns the difference between docker and docket

is that docker is one who performs docking, as of tails or docker can be a dockworker while docket is (obsolete) a summary; a brief digest.

As a verb docket is

to make an entry in a docket.

docker

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who performs docking, as of tails.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dockworker.
  • Hyponyms
    * longshoreman, stevedore

    Anagrams

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    docket

    English

    (wikipedia docket)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
  • (legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
  • (legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
  • An agenda of things to be done.
  • A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
  • See also

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make an entry in a docket.
  • To label a parcel etc.
  • to docket goods
  • To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
  • to docket letters and papers
    (Chesterfield)
  • To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
  • judgments regularly docketed
  • To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
  • (Webster 1913)