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• Places for the transfer of people and materials to, from, or between different forms of transport or working with transport:
  • A maritime dock.
  • Loading dock , the land equivalent.
  • A dry dock.
  • In American English dock is technically synonymous with pier or wharf; any human-made structure intended for people to be on. However, in modern use, pier is generally used to refer to structures originally intended for industrial use, such as seafood processing or shipping, and more recently for cruise ships, and dock is used for most everything else, often with a qualifier, such as ferry dock , swimming dock , etc.
  • Space vehicles also dock in space to allow the transfer of astronauts from one vehicle to another in a space rendezvous.
  • In British courtrooms, it is a small enclosed place where the defendant stands during the trial.

These meanings of the word came from Old Norse dokk = "small recess or corner".

• Plants in the genus RumexAbout 200, see text. The docks and sorrels genus Rumex are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae. Members of this family are very common perennial herbs and occur mainly in the Northern h are also often known as DockAbout 200, see text. The docks and sorrels genus Rumex are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae. Members of this family are very common perennial herbs and occur mainly in the Northern hs.
• DockingThis article discusses the removal of part of an animal's tail or ears. See dock disambiguation page for other uses Docking is the cutting off or removal of something, such as a person's pay or an animal's tail. It is commonly used to refer to the removal, the process of removing part of an animal's tail or ears.
• The DockThe Dock is a user interface feature in the NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Mac OS X operating systems, but the Dock's functionality was radically changed in Mac OS X. In NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, the Dock is a repository to store frequently used programs. The icon in Mac OS XMac OS X is the latest version of the Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers. Developed and published by Apple Computer, it provides the stability of a Unix operating environment and adds popular features of the traditional Macintosh user interfa.