docking

The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.

Noun

  1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  2. The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
  3. The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  4. The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
    • From their discussions, the participants mentioned informational and stimulating variations. For touching, one could always use feather dusters, a massage, a tongue in the ear, spooning and sucking toes (known in New...
  5. A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

Origin

From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.

Forms

dockings

Antonyms

undocking

Derived

autodocking cross-docking docking port docking station nondocking redocking space docking

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dock
  2. Culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry.

Origin

Etymology tree English dock Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English docking From dock + -ing.