Dock

Dock may refer to:

In transportation
  • Cross dock, moving material directly, one truck to another.
  • Dock (maritime), either the area of water taken by a vessel when tied to a man-made structure (pier, wharf, float, etc.) or group of structures involved in the handling of boats or ships, usually on or close to a shore, or the structures themselves.
  • Dry dock, Float-in, drain, repair, fill, float-out: facility for ships.
  • Floating dock (disambiguation), any dock that permits ships to unload and load at a set water level irrespective of tide
  • Loading dock, an area for trucks to deliver or receive cargo.
  • Docking and berthing of spacecraft, a spaceflight operation used to transfer personnel or materials from a spacecraft to another or for using one of the two spacecraft as a booster

In science
  • Dock or tailhead, where the tail joins the Rump
  • Dock, the plant genus Rumex
  • DOCK (protein), a family of proteins involved in cell signalling
  • DOCK (UCSF), the docking program

In computing
  • Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature
  • Dock (macOS), a toolbar-like application launcher in the macOS operating system
  • Docking station, a laptop accessory

Places
  • The Dock, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • The Dock, Washington, D.C., United States
  • The Dock Gymnasium, Louisiana State University Shreveport, United States
  • Docks (nightclub) in Hamburg, Germany
  • The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • The former name of Devonport, Devon, now a part of the city of Plymouth
  • Execution Dock in London

People
  • Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren) (born 1980), English manga illustrator
  • Dock Boggs (1898–1971), American folk singer and banjoist
  • Dock Ellis (1945–2008), American baseball pitcher
  • Dock J. Jordan (1866–1943), American lawyer and educator
  • Dock Walsh (1901–1967), American banjoist

Other uses
  • To pierce dough during its handling to prevent the formation of large air pockets, such as with a roller docker
  • The area of a courtroom where an accused party sits during proceedings

See also
  • Docking (disambiguation)
  • Docker (disambiguation)
  • Docklands (disambiguation)
  • Dox (disambiguation)
  • DOC (disambiguation)
  • Docs (disambiguation)
  • Hohe Dock, one of the highest peaks in the Glockner Group of the Austrian Alps

References
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