docking

verb

  1. 1

    To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.

  2. 2

    To reduce (wages); to deduct from.

  3. 3

    To cut off, bar, or destroy.

    to dock an entail

verb

  1. 1

    To land at a harbour.

  2. 2

    To join two moving items.

  3. 3

    To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.

  4. 4

    To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

    I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.

verb

  1. 1

    To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.

noun

  1. 1

    The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.

  2. 2

    The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables

  3. 3

    The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.

  4. 4

    The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.

  5. 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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