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