## Meanings
1. A place where ships are loaded, unloaded, or repaired.
2. To bring a ship into a dock, or to arrive there.
3. To take away part of someone's wages or money.

## Examples
- The ship was unloaded at the dock early in the morning.
- The ferry docked safely despite the rough sea.
- They docked his pay for arriving late every day.

## Antonyms
- undock

## Derived Forms
- airdock
- butterdock
- candock
- dockable
- dockage
- docker
- dockhand
- dockie
- docking
- dockization
- dockize
- dockland

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: dok
- Root: docke
- Root: dǫkk

## Etymology
A dock (etymology 3, noun sense 1, etymology 3, noun sense 2) for cruise ships A laptop docking (etymology 3, noun sense 5) station A GUI dock (etymology 3, noun sense 6) on Linux From Early Modern English meaning "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from either Dutch dok (“dock, wharf”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, wharf”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Danish dok, Dutch dok, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Low German Dock, Swed…

## AI Etymology
Dock comes from Early Modern English meaning "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from either Dutch dok (“dock, wharf”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, wharf”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". In current use, the main senses are “A place where ships are loaded, unloaded, or repaired” and “To bring a ship into a dock, or to arrive there”.

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