docking

See also: Docking

English

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Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

docking

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

docking (plural dockings)

1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
2. (nautical) The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
3. (astronautics) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
4. (sexuality, slang) The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
   • 1986 December 14, E. G. Martin, “Hot & Healthy: A Second Coming Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 7:

     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 York City as "shrimping). There's also "docking" for foreskinned men who can creatively stroke appendages.

5. (molecular biology) A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

Antonyms

securing a vessel, connecting a spaceship

• undocking

Coordinate terms

securing a vessel, connecting a spaceship

• berthing

Derived terms

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

Translations

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: kupering c, studsning c
• Finnish: typistäminen (fi)
• French: caudectomie (fr) f
• Italian: caudotomia (it) f, taglio della coda
• Polish: kopiowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: купірування (kupiruvannja)

securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables

• Catalan: amarrada (ca) f, amarrament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: dokning c
• Finnish: kiinnittyminen (fi), kiinnittäminen (fi)
• French: amarrage (fr) m
• Italian: ormeggio (it) m, attracco (it) m, approdo (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (for maintenance) dokking m or f

  Nynorsk: (for maintenance) dokking f

• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

process of connecting one spacecraft to another

• Catalan: amarrament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對接 / 对接 (zh) (duìjiē)

• Danish: sammenkobling c
• Finnish: telakoituminen (fi), telakointi (fi)
• French: amarrage (fr) m
• German: Docking n
• Italian: aggancio (it) m, attracco (it) m
• Japanese: ドッキング (ja) (dokkingu)
• Polish: dokowanie (pl)
• Portuguese: acoplamento (pt) m
• Russian: стыко́вка (ru) f (stykóvka)

sex act

• Chinese:

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• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: docking c
• Finnish: telakoituminen (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Docking n
• Japanese: ドッキング (ja)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

(molecular biology)

• Chinese:

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• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: telakointi (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: aggancio molecolare m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can