Dock

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Dock may refer to:

In transportation

• 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.
• Loading dock, an unloading area for trucks to deliver cargo
• Cross dock, moving material directly, one truck to another

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 file see .DOC file
• Dock (OS X), a toolbar-like application launcher in the OS X operating system
• Docking station, a laptop accessory

Places

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

People

• Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren), 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