Dock (disambiguation) explained

A dock is infrastructure used for berthing watercraft.

Dock or DOCK may also refer to:

Transportation

• Dry dock, a construction and repair facility for ships
• Floating dock (disambiguation), several different types of structures
• Loading dock, an area for trucks to deliver or receive cargo
• Pier, a type of maritime structure
• Space dock, a structure used for the docking and berthing of spacecraft

Computing

• Dock (computing), or taskbar, a graphical user interface feature
• Dock (macOS), the taskbar in the macOS operating system
• Docking station, used for connecting laptops or other mobile devices
• DOCK, molecular analysis software

Plants and animals

• Dock, or dockweed, a name for plants in the genus Rumex, especially broad-leaved dock
• Dock, more rarely used in the names of certain similar broad-leaved plants, like velvet dock
• Tailhead, or dock, the beginning of an animal's tail

Biochemistry

• DOCK, software for use in molecular docking
• DOCK (protein), a family of proteins involved in cell signalling

Places

• The Dock, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• The Dock, Washington, D.C., United States
• The Dock Gymnasium, Louisiana State University Shreveport, United States
• Docks (nightclub) in Hamburg, Germany
• The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• The former name of Devonport, Devon, now a part of the city of Plymouth
• Execution Dock in London

Other uses

• The area of a courtroom where an accused party sits during proceedings
• To pierce dough during its handling to prevent the formation of large air pockets, such as with a roller docker
• Dock or Hayden Scott-Baron (born 1980), English manga illustrator
• Dock (given name), include a list of people with the name

See also

• Docking (disambiguation)
• Docker (disambiguation)
• Docklands (disambiguation)
• Dox (disambiguation)
• DOC (disambiguation)
• Docs (disambiguation)
  • Dockx Hohe Dock, one of the highest peaks in the Glockner Group of the Austrian Alps