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We have found lemma(root) word of docks : dock.
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[dɒk], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an enclosed area of water in a port for the loading, unloading, and repair of ships
(e.g: the boat nosed up to a dock)
- a device in which a laptop, smartphone, or other mobile device may be placed for charging, providing access to a power supply and to peripheral devices or auxiliary features; a docking station
Phrases:
- in dock
Origin
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late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German docke, of unknown origin
[dɒk], (Verb)
Definitions:
- (of a ship) come into a dock and tie up at a wharf
(e.g: the ship docked at Southampton)
- attach (a mobile device or piece of electronic equipment) to a docking station or another piece of equipment
(e.g: this mode lets you dock the keyboard in a position suitable for day-to-day work)
Phrases:
- in dock
Origin
:
late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German docke, of unknown origin
[dɒk], (Verb)
Definitions:
- deduct (something, especially an amount of money or a point in a game)
(e.g: the agency enforce payments by docking money from the father's salary)
- cut short (an animal's tail)
(e.g: their tails were docked)
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Origin
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late Middle English: perhaps related to Frisian dok ‘bunch, ball (of string etc.)’ and German Docke ‘doll’. The original noun sense was ‘the solid part of an animal's tail’, whence the verb sense ‘cut short an animal's tail’, later generalized to ‘reduce, deduct’
[dɒk], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the solid bony or fleshy part of an animal's tail, excluding the hair
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Origin
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late Middle English: perhaps related to Frisian dok ‘bunch, ball (of string etc.)’ and German Docke ‘doll’. The original noun sense was ‘the solid part of an animal's tail’, whence the verb sense ‘cut short an animal's tail’, later generalized to ‘reduce, deduct’
[dɒk], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the enclosure in a criminal court where a defendant stands or sits
(e.g: the nine others in the dock face a combination of charges)
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Origin
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late 16th century: probably originally slang and related to Flemish dok ‘chicken coop, rabbit hutch’, of unknown origin
[dɒk], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a coarse weed of temperate regions, with inconspicuous greenish or reddish flowers. The leaves are used to relieve nettle stings
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Origin
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Old English docce, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dialect dokke
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