docking
Meaning of docking
- (of a ship) come into a dock and tie up at a wharf.
the ship docked at Southampton
late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German docke, of unknown origin.
verb, gerund or present participle- deduct (something, especially an amount of money or a point in a game).
the agency enforce payments by docking money from the father's salary
he was docked a penalty point
- cut short (an animal's tail).
their tails were docked
late Middle English: perhaps related to Frisian dok ‘bunch, ball (of string etc.)’ and German Docke ‘doll’. The original noun sense was ‘the solid part of an animal's tail’, whence the verb sense ‘cut short an animal's tail’, later generalized to ‘reduce, deduct’.
Information about docking
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of docking is: dockings.
- Languages in which docking is used:
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Hyphenation of docking
dock-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- docking is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
docking synonyms
Meaning moorage:
Meaning a tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather:
Meaning (of a ship) dock:
Meaning put (someone or something) on land from a boat:
Meaning run or haul up (a boat or ship) on to a beach:
Meaning moor (a ship) to the sea bottom with an anchor:
Meaning subtract or take away (an amount or part) from a total:
Meaning take away (a number or amount) from another to calculate the difference:
Meaning take (something) away or off from the position occupied:
Meaning (of a bank or other financial organization) remove (an amount of money) from a customer's account:
Meaning deduct an amount from (the usual price of something):
Meaning with the subtraction of:
Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
Meaning make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object:
Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:
Meaning make or become less; diminish:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning make or become shorter:
Meaning cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short:
Meaning cut off (a branch, limb, or twig) from the main body of a tree:
Meaning a plum preserved by drying and having a black, wrinkled appearance:
Meaning shorten the duration or extent of:
Meaning cut off (a limb) by surgical operation:
Meaning disengage (something or part of something) and remove it:
Meaning break the connection of or between:
Meaning divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly:
Meaning divide or sever (something):
docking antonyms
Meaning join (something) to something else so as to increase the size, number, or amount:
Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:
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