docking
verb
- 1
To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
- 2
To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
- 3
To cut off, bar, or destroy.
“to dock an entail”
verb
- 1
To land at a harbour.
- 2
To join two moving items.
- 3
To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- 4
To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
“I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.”
verb
- 1
To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
noun
- 1
The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
- 2
The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
- 3
The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
- 4
The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.
- 5
A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
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