dock
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2.8
- noun
- /dɑk/
:
muelle de carga
- The trucks were lined up at the loading dock to pick up the shipments for delivery.
- loading dock
- work a loading dock
So they'd say, OK, you're at the loading dock, now move to the restaurant.
- So they'd say, OK, you're at the loading dock, now move to the restaurant.
- The front door was a loading dock door for like the beer truck.
Examples
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Near the loading dock, a large fire truck and an aid car stood ready.
Fiction book (1992) -
Keep an eye on the loading dock.
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The front door was a loading dock door for like the beer truck.
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I can walk to the loading dock from here.
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Loading dock in the back.
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Meet me at the loading dock.
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The plant had no receiving dock and no loading dock.
Academic text (2006) -
They should get you pretty close to the loading dock.
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A fireman was just going up the stairs to the loading dock with some cable in his hand.
Fiction book (1992) -
The trucks parked not at Schindler's sub-camp, but at the loading dock of Goeth's private warehouse in Cracow.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
86
2.1
A long flat raised area at a train station where passengers get on and off trains
27
3.6
A raised area at a building where trucks stop to load and unload goods
2
3.0
A place where vehicles stop to pick up or drop off goods and people
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
4
6.1
A place where workers empty the water so they can build or fix a ship's bottom
- Specialized
1
5.3
A large platform that sinks so a ship can enter then rises to lift the ship for repairs
- Specialized
A portable structure that sinks so a ship can enter and then lifts it out for repair
- Specialized
A large dock that can be emptied of water so workers can fix the bottom of a ship
A plant that lives for many years with broad rounded leaves, a bitter root, often growing as a weed
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dock for a warehouse platform grew from the idea of a place for loading and unloading goods, like a ship dock; so a loading dock is where trucks come to load or unload.