Dock
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Dock may refer to:
In transportation:
- Dock (maritime), an area of water for building or repairing or loading and unloading ships or ferries
- Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
- Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
- Ferry slip, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat
- Pontoon, a buoyant device, may be used to support docks or floating bridges
- Dry dock, a narrow basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
- Jetty
- Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman
- Loading dock, where trucks may be loaded and unloaded
- Space rendezvous, if it includes docking
In natural sciences:
- Molecular docking, a research technique for predicting whether one molecule will bind to another
- Rumex, plants called docks and sorrels
- Burdock, a group of biennial thistles, and some other species of plants such as prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum, Silphium perfoliatum, Parthenium integrifolium), narrow-leaf dock (Rumex mexicanus), curly dock or curled dock (Rumex crispus), broadleaf dock or butter dock (Rumex obtusifolius) and many other members of the Rumex genus
In computing:
- Docking station, for a portable computer
- Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature
Other:
- Docking (animals), the removal of part of an animal, often tail or ears
- The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Docking (sexual practice), a sexual act performed between two men
- The first level of the Heretic video game
- The place where the defendant stands in a British courtroom, see Courtroom#Layout of courts in Scotland
- Docking, Norfolk is a village in England
- Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren) a UK Manga illustrator
