Dock

Dock may refer to:

In transportation:
 * Dock (maritime), an area of water for building or repairing or loading and unloading ships or ferries
 * Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
 * Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
 * Ferry slip, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat
 * Pontoon, a buoyant device, used to support docks or floating bridges
 * Dry dock, a narrow basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform
 * Loading dock or Cargo bay, an unloading area for trucks to deliver cargo
 * Jetty
 * Stevedore, a worker who loads and unloads ships, also known as a docker or longshoreman
 * Space rendezvous, if it includes docking

In natural sciences:
 * Rumex, plants called docks and sorrels including narrow-leaf dock (Rumex mexicanus), curly dock or curled dock (Rumex crispus), broadleaf dock or butter dock (Rumex obtusifolius) and many other members of the Rumex genus
 * Burdock, a group of biennial thistles
 * Some other species of plants such as prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum, Silphium perfoliatum, Parthenium integrifolium),
 * Molecular docking, a research technique for predicting whether one molecule will bind to another

In computing:
 * Docking station, for a portable computer
 * Dock (computing), a graphical user interface feature

Other:
 * Docking (animal), the removal of part of an animal, often tail or ears
 * Docking (dog) - the same practice restricted to dogs
 * For use on humans, e.g. as corporal punishment, see Mutilation


 * The Docks Waterfront Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 * Docking (sexual practice), a sexual act performed between two men
 * The first level of the Heretic video game
 * The place where the defendant stands in a British courtroom (see the layout of courts in Scotland) hence the expression "in the dock"
 * Docking, Norfolk, a village in East Anglia, England
 * Dock (Hayden Scott-Barren), a UK manga illustrator