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A act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes
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docking
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes [syn: moorage , tying up ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Docking is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Docking , founder of Alan Docking Racing Alfred Docking (1860–1938), missionary in the United States George Docking (1904–1964), politician in the U.S. state of Kansas Jeffrey Docking (born ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of cut off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal. 2 The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables 3 (spacecraft) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another. 4 (context colloquial LGBT English) The sex act involving two ...
Usage examples of docking.
Hashed arrogantly past the commercial craft on its way to the private docking bays, and pulled up with a whine of nullgravs at the entrance ramp of a yacht painted in the blue and silver of the Royal House of Sapne.
There were more Brighter Suns employees off Vesta than on it, occupying trading stations and docking ports throughout the rest of human space.
Ti insist on docking to the Superjumper, Silver realized, as the crunch and shudder of their impact with the docking clamps reverberated through the pusher.
He was devastated not to have an answer for Kyle as to the contents of the containership docking behind him.
Docking Bay 5, where Marissa Correa and Atsuko Cortland were waiting for them.
Sabine system imposes a fine of five thousand credits for improper undock, and you have an outstanding ship balance due of 2345 credits for docking services.
With a squad of warriors in the Dreadnaught docking bay, I also expected there to be ample warning if Bearsh and the others attempted to return to the vessel.
Benjy released the docking latches, threw power to his drivetrain, and ground free of the pod.
Tour boats filled with passengers nosed their way along the waterfront, poking into the channels that ran back to the ends of the docking slips of Harbour Island and into the Duwamish Rover.
Even as she spoke, high access ports in the docking bay bulkheads slid aside to reveal the batteries that provided fire support in hostile landings.
It was reasonably good at noticing when things changed, and excellent in the things any cargo ship needed, such as micromillimeter accuracy when docking.
Which is why the transverse personnel tubes located midline above the shuttle docking points are pressurized as is the engine control room, maintenance, crew quarters and the main control room.
Receptor-cell docking, transmitter reuptake, enzyme cascades, substance breakdown and by-products .
A complicated network of servomotors, impellers, tension sensors, docking attachments, and control apparatus crowned its roof, looking as if someone had hammered random scrap components into place without prior planning.
In a smooth motion, his X-wing lifted, sideslipped out from under the docking bay roof, and turned the direction opposite that from which the warriors had come.