dock vs reduce

dock

verb
  • To reduce (wages); to deduct from. 

  • 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 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 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. 

reduce

verb
  • To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. 

  • To annul by legal means. 

  • To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".) 

  • To lose weight. 

  • To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment. 

  • To bring to an inferior state or condition. 

  • To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value. 

  • To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. 

  • To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form. 

  • To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen. 

  • To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture. 

  • To strike off the payroll. 

  • To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off. 

  • To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter. 

  • To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm. 

  • To reform a line or column from (a square). 

How often have the words dock and reduce occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )