dock vs free

dock

verb
  • To cut off, bar, or destroy. 

  • To join two moving items. 

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

  • 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 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. 

free

verb
  • To rid of something that confines or oppresses. 

  • To make free; set at liberty; release. 

  • To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system. 

noun
  • A free transfer. 

  • The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. 

adv
  • Without needing to pay. 

adj
  • Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched. 

  • Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed. 

  • Without obligations. 

  • With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification. 

  • Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated. 

  • Privileged or individual; the opposite of common. 

  • (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme. 

  • Unconstrained. 

  • Unobstructed, without blockages. 

  • Unattached or uncombined. 

  • Not imprisoned or enslaved. 

  • Unconstrained by quantifiers. 

  • Not attached; loose. 

  • Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound. 

  • Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc. 

  • Unconstrained by timidity or distrust 

  • Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version. 

  • complimentary 

  • Unconstrained by relators. 

  • Obtainable without any payment. 

  • Generous; liberal. 

  • Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied. 

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