Crossword clues for docker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
docker \docker\ n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
Syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. One who performs docking, as of tails. Etymology 2
n. A dockworker.
WordNet
n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper]
Wikipedia
A docker is a type of waterfront workman.
Docker or dockers may also refer to:
Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of Linux applications inside software containers. Quote of features from Docker web pages:
Docker provides an additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating-system-level virtualization on Linux. Docker uses the resource isolation features of the Linux kernel such as cgroups and kernel namespaces, and a union-capable file system such as aufs and others to allow independent "containers" to run within a single Linux instance, avoiding the overhead of starting and maintaining virtual machines.
The Linux kernel's support for namespaces mostly isolates an application's view of the operating environment, including process trees, network, user IDs and mounted file systems, while the kernel's cgroups provide resource limiting, including the CPU, memory, block I/O and network. Since version 0.9, Docker includes the library as its own way to directly use virtualization facilities provided by the Linux kernel, in addition to using abstracted virtualization interfaces via libvirt, LXC (Linux Containers) and systemd-nspawn.
Docker is a locational surname from Docker, Westmoreland and Docker, Lancashire.
- For "The Painters and Dockers / Moran Family", see Melbourne gangland killings.
- The Australian trade union, see Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union
Usage examples of "docker".
Most of them were human, apart from a gigant docker and a couple of saurs.
The docker opposite the totter had started scratching now and Sam felt his back itching.
He looked oddly out of place in his Dockers and pale orange button-down shirt, as if someone had cut him out of an ad in a Seattle newspaper and pasted him into the wrong background.
He threaded his way past the gang of dockers busy at the cranes unloading the barge that had brought the drop capsules in from the Zone, and glanced sharply into the open cargo space.
Behind him, the flat-faced giant made a gesture, and the dockers shifted position suddenly, so that they encircled the Visiting Speaker and his staff.
She dodged among bollards and barrels, carts and trucks, dockers and hauliers, the crowd less dense but its components faster and heavier.
Lydia and Volkov, the dockers, and a similar number of students all ascended the stairs inside to the radio room.
One young woman began eagerly taping interviews with the dockers for later transmission.
The folk most likely to be agitated by it are the dockers, and behind them the people who rallied to the rebel elements in the Port Authority: the compradores and their employees.
If some of the dockers are swayed by the story, a big part of the plan, one of its thrashed-out selling points, is in big trouble.
The section of the dockers angered by the story have built a popular front in reverse, pulling in a coalition of the discontented and bigoted and scared.
The dockers form a disciplined front rank, and behind them is a disorderly and noisy crowd, like the one that had gathered outside the grogshop but more determined.
The clatter and the rush are the sounds of dockers throwing down pallets hacked and adapted as wooden shields and picking them up and running forward.
The first volley falls mostly on the line of union dockers up front, thudding on the shields, or just behind them, and then the second shower of scrap arrives, this time striking home -- screams, bleeding heads, somebody nearby falls thrashing.
Maintenance shuttles hovered around her, feeding the cluster of dockers on her hull with tools and power for the work being done on the big ship.