這個拼法底下其實是4個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 dock (port area) · the dock (courtroom) · dock (cut animal's tail) · dock (plant)
dock
n, vYou can picture this dock as the spot where a ship comes in off the open water and settles snugly against the land to be loaded, , or fixed. From that one image — a moving thing pulling in and joining a fixed place — come the port area, the wooden , and even modern things 'pulling in to join': a phone settling into its stand, two spacecraft coming together.
A second word, same spelling
dock
nThis is a different dock — a separate word. You can picture it as the closed-off spot in a courtroom where the accused person has to stand, fenced in, facing everyone's eyes. From that physical 'standing accused' spot grows the idiom of being 'in the dock' — being blamed and put on trial in people's minds.
From the word’s history
From Flemish/Dutch 'dok' meaning a pen or cage; the courtroom enclosure where the accused stands. This is etymologically unrelated to the harbour dock.
源自佛萊明語/荷蘭語 dok,意為「圍欄、籠子」,指法庭裡關住被告站立的圍格。與碼頭的 dock 沒有同源關係,是另一個字。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'dock (n.3)'
A second word, same spelling
dock
vThis dock is a separate verb meaning 'to cut something short' — its oldest use is cutting an animal's tail short. You can hold that one picture, the snip that , and see the money-and-marks sense as the same cut moved onto a number: a slice taken off someone's pay or score, usually as a punishment.
From the word’s history
From Middle English 'dok' meaning the solid fleshy part of an animal's tail, then the verb 'to cut the tail short' — a separate word from the harbour and court docks.
源自中古英語 dok,原指動物尾巴根部那段實肉,後轉為動詞「把尾巴剪短」。與碼頭、法庭的 dock 不同源,是另一個字。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'dock (v.1)'
A second word, same spelling
dock
nThis dock is a third, separate word: the name of a common wild plant with big green leaves, often found growing right next to nettles, whose leaf people rub on a nettle sting to soothe it.
From the word’s history
From Old English 'docce', the plant name — a separate word from both the harbour dock and the courtroom dock.
源自古英語 docce,是這種植物的名字,與碼頭的 dock、法庭的 dock 都不同源,是另一個字。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'dock (n.1)'
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原始詞典資料27 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Dockname
- 1
datedrareA male given name or nickname.
- 2
A surname.
docknoun詞源 1/dɒk/
- 1
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […]
- 2
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
docknoun詞源 2/dɒk/
- 1
The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
- The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock
- 2
obsoleteThe buttocks or anus.
- And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.
- 3
A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
dockverb詞源 2/dɒk/
- 1
To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
- 2
To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- Her wages were docked by ten dollars.
- The team have been docked six points at Paris 2024 and Priestman received a one-year football ban from world governing body Fifa.
- 3
informalTo reduce the wages of (a person).
- They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.
- 4
To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- to dock an entail
- 5
cookingfoodlifestyleTo pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.
docknoun詞源 3/dɒk/
- 1
nauticaltransportA fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
- 2
nauticaltransportThe body of water next to and around a pier.
- 3
The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- 4
A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- coffee dock
- 5
businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- 6
computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceA toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- 7
An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
dockverb詞源 3/dɒk/
- 1
To land at a harbour.
- On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.
- 2
To join two moving items.
- to dock spacecraft
- A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
- 3
aerospaceastronauticsbusinessTo move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- 4
slangIn male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- 5
computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceTo drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- 6
To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.
docknoun詞源 4/dɒk/
- 1
lawPart of a courtroom where the accused sits.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- scene-dock
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。