dock

B2 CET-4 大学 FREQ #5586 ★★☆☆☆

n. 码头, 船坞, 被告席, 尾巴的骨肉部分 vt. 使靠码头, 使(船)进港, 剪短 vi. 进港

发音

UK /dɒk/
US /dɑk/

词形变化

docks 复数 docks 三单 docking 现在分词 docked 过去式 docked 过去分词

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

    可数 不可数
  3. 1.

    The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.

  4. 2.

    The buttocks or anus.

    废旧
  5. 3.

    A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

  6. 1.

    A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.

    码头

    美国 航海 交通
  7. 2.

    The body of water next to and around a pier.

    英国 航海 交通
  8. 3.

    The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.

  9. 4.

    A section of a hotel or restaurant.

    coffee dock

  10. 5.

    A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.

    商务 工程 物理 电子
  11. 6.

    A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.

    任务栏

    计算机 工程 数学
  12. 7.

    An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.

  13. 8.

    Ellipsis of scene-dock.

    艺术
  14. 1.

    Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

    被告席

    法律
v.
  1. 1.

    To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).

    及物

    Her wages were docked by ten dollars.

  3. 3.

    To reduce the wages of (a person).

    非正式 及物

    They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.

  4. 4.

    To cut off, bar, or destroy.

    及物

    to dock an entail

  5. 5.

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

    及物 烹饪

    Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.

  6. 1.

    To land at a harbour.

    不及物

    On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.

  7. 2.

    To join two moving items.

    to dock spacecraft

  8. 3.

    To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.

    航空 商务 工程
  9. 4.

    In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.

    不及物 俚语 粗俗
  10. 5.

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

    及物 计算机 工程 数学
  11. 6.

    To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

    及物

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

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).

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