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
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