captain vs dock

captain

verb
  • To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team. 

  • To act as captain 

noun
  • An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel. 

  • The head boy of a school. 

  • A maître d', a headwaiter. 

  • A chief or leader. 

  • An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major. 

  • A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore. 

  • The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel. 

  • One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official. 

  • A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel. 

  • The leader of a group of workers. 

dock

verb
  • To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power. 

  • To join two moving items. 

  • To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant). 

  • To cut off, bar, or destroy. 

  • To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven. 

  • To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy. 

  • To land at a harbour. 

  • To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place. 

  • To reduce (wages); to deduct from. 

  • To place (an electronic device) in its dock. 

noun
  • The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station. 

  • A section of a hotel or restaurant. 

  • A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities. 

  • 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. 

  • A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port. 

  • A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant. 

  • The fleshy root of an animal's tail. 

  • A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications. 

  • An act of docking; joining two things together. 

  • Part of a courtroom where the accused sits. 

  • A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels. 

  • The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked. 

  • A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse. 

  • The body of water between two piers. 

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