docking

Plural: dockings

Noun

• the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes
• The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
• The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
• The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
• The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
• A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

Verb

• come into dock
• deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
• deduct from someone's wages
• remove or shorten the tail of an animal
• maneuver into a dock
• present participle and gerund of dock
• culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry.

Synonyms

bob, dock, dockage, moorage, tail, tying up

Antonyms

undock, undocking