# noun. - a device in which a laptop computer, smartphone, or other mobile device may be placed for charging, providing access to a power supply and to peripheral devices or auxiliary features; a docking station. - the solid bony or fleshy part of an animal's tail, excluding the hair. - the enclosure in a criminal court where a defendant is placed. * the nine others in the dock face a combination of charges - a coarse weed of temperate regions, with inconspicuous greenish or reddish flowers. The leaves are popularly used to relieve nettle stings.
# verb. - (of a ship) tie up at a dock, especially in order to load or unload passengers or cargo. * the ship docked at San Francisco - attach (a mobile device or piece of electronic equipment) to a docking station or another piece of equipment. * this mode lets you dock the keyboard in a position suitable for day-to-day work - deduct (something, especially an amount of money). * their wages are docked for public displays of affection