Dock

Dock may refer to:

Computing

• Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature
• Dock (macOS), a toolbar-like application launcher in the macOS operating system
• Docking station, a laptop accessory

People

• Dock or Hayden Scott-Baron (born 1980), English manga illustrator
• Dock (given name), include a list of people with the name

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

Science

• Dock or tailhead, where the tail joins the Rump
• Dock, the plant genus Rumex
• DOCK (protein), a family of proteins involved in cell signalling
• DOCK (UCSF), the docking program

Transportation

• Cross dock, moving material directly, one truck to another.
• Dock (maritime), either the area of water taken by a vessel when tied to a man-made structure (pier, wharf, float, etc.) or group of structures involved in the handling of boats or ships, usually on or close to a shore, or the structures themselves.
• Dry dock, Float-in, drain, repair, fill, float-out: facility for ships.
• Floating dock (disambiguation), any dock that permits ships to unload and load at a set water level irrespective of tide
• Loading dock, an area for trucks to deliver or receive cargo.
• Pier
• Docking and berthing of spacecraft, a spaceflight operation used to transfer personnel or materials from a spacecraft to another or for using one of the two spacecraft as a booster

Other uses

• To pierce dough during its handling to prevent the formation of large air pockets, such as with a roller docker
• The area of a courtroom where an accused party sits during proceedings

See also

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