dock vs pulpit

dock

noun
  • An act of docking; joining two things together. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 reduce (wages); to deduct from. 

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

pulpit

noun
  • A bow platform for harpooning. 

  • The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as a stern pulpit; other texts use the term pushpit. 

  • A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker. 

  • A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon. 

  • Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit. 

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