Dock

Dock may refer to:

In transportation

• Dock (maritime), a structure for handling ships
  • Drydock, a basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
  • Ferry slip, a docking facility that receives a ferryboat
  • Floating dock, a dock resting on pontoons
  • Harbor
  • Jetty
  • Marina
  • Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
  • Pontoon (boat), a buoyant device, used to support docks or floating bridges
  • Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
• Loading dock or cargo bay, an unloading area for trucks to deliver cargo
• Space rendezvous, if it includes docking
• Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman

In natural sciences

• Dock or tailhead, where the tail joins the rump (animal)
• Docking (animal), the removal of part of an animal, often tail or ears
• Docking (dog)
• Docking as human corporal punishment
• Dock, the plant genus Rumex

• Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), narrow-leaved dock
• Rumex crispus, curly dock or curled dock
• Rumex obtusifolius, broadleaf dock or butter dock

In molecular biology

• DOCK (protein) (dedicator of cytokinesis), a family of proteins involved in cell signalling
• Docking (molecular), a research technique for predicting the relative orientation of two molecules to each other in a bimolecular complex
• DOCK (UCSF), the docking program

In computing

• Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature
• Docking station, for a portable computer

Places

• Docking, Norfolk, a village in East Anglia, England
• The Dock, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• The Dock, Washington, D.C., United States
• The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• The former name of Devonport, Devon, now a part of the city of Plymouth

Other

• Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren), a UK manga illustrator
• Docking (sexual practice)
• The place where the defendant stands in a British courtroom (see the layout of courts in Scotland) hence the expression "in the dock"
• To pierce dough during its handling to prevent the formation of large air pockets, such as with a roller docker

See also

• Dox: various meanings including a supposed hybrid between a dog and a fox
• DOC (disambiguation)
• Docklands (disambiguation)
• Docs (disambiguation)
• Hohe Dock, one of the highest peaks in the Glockner Group of the Austrian Alps