docking

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ

Verb

docking

1. present participle of dock

Noun

docking (plural dockings)

1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
2. The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
3. The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
4. (slang) The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.
5. (molecular biology) A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

Translations

process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal

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• Danish: kupering c, studsning c
• Finnish: typistäminen
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• French: caudectomie (fr) f
• Italian: caudotomia (it) f, taglio della coda
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securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables

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• Danish: dokning c
• Finnish: kiinnittyminen, kiinnittäminen (fi)
• French: amarrage (fr) m
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• Italian: ormeggio (it) m, attracco (it) m, approdo (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (for maintenance) dokking m or f

  Nynorsk: (for maintenance) dokking f

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process of connecting one spacecraft to another

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對接／对接 (zh) (duìjiē), 对接 (zh) (duìjiē)

• Danish: sammenkobling c
• Finnish: telakoituminen, telakointi (fi)
• French: amarrage (fr) m
• German: Docking n
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• Italian: aggancio (it) m, attracco (it) m
• Japanese: ドッキング (dokkingu)
• Polish: dokowanie (pl)
• Portuguese: acoplamento (pt) m
• Russian: стыко́вка (ru) f (stykóvka)

sex act

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• Finnish: telakoituminen
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(molecular biology)

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• Finnish: telakointi (fi)
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• Italian: aggancio molecolare m
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