Pier vs. Dock
Difference Between Pier and Dock
Piernoun
A platform extending from a shore over water and supported by piles or pillars, used to secure, protect, and provide access to ships or boats.
Docknoun
A platform extending from a shore over water, used to secure, protect, and provide access to a boat or ship; a pier.
Piernoun
Such a structure used predominantly for entertainment.
Docknoun
docks An area along a commercial waterfront having docks or piers.
Piernoun
A supporting structure at the junction of connecting spans of a bridge.
Docknoun
The area of water between two piers or alongside a pier that receives a vessel for loading, unloading, or repairs
The boat moved slowly into the dock.Piernoun
A pillar, generally rectangular in cross section, supporting an arch or roof.
Docknoun
A floating platform attached to a mooring and used as a rest or play area when swimming.
Piernoun
The portion of a wall between windows, doors, or other openings.
Docknoun
A platform or door at which trucks or trains load or unload cargo.
Piernoun
A reinforcing structure that projects from a wall; a buttress.
Docknoun
(Computers) See docking station.
Piernoun
A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
Docknoun
The solid or fleshy part of an animal's tail.
Piernoun
A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
Docknoun
The tail of an animal after it has been bobbed or clipped.
Piernoun
A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.
Docknoun
A demarcated or enclosed space where the defendant stands or sits in a court of law.
Piernoun
A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
Docknoun
See sorrel1.
Piernoun
(architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof.
Dockverb
To maneuver (a vessel or vehicle) into or next to a dock.
Piernoun
a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
Dockverb
To couple (two or more spacecraft, for example) in space.
Piernoun
(architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows)
Dockverb
To move or come into or next to a dock.
Piernoun
a support for two adjacent bridge spans
Dockverb
To clip short or cut off (an animal's tail, for example).
Dockverb
To deprive of a benefit or a part of one's wages, especially as a punishment
The company docks its employees for unauthorized absences.Dockverb
To withhold or deduct a part from (one's salary or wages).
Docknoun
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
Docknoun
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
Docknoun
The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
Docknoun
The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
Docknoun
(obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
Docknoun
A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
Docknoun
A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
Docknoun
The body of water between two piers.
Docknoun
A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
Docknoun
A section of a hotel or restaurant.
coffee dockDocknoun
(electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
Docknoun
A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
Docknoun
An act of docking; joining two things together.
Docknoun
Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
Dockverb
(transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
Dockverb
(transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
Dockverb
(transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
to dock an entailDockverb
(intransitive) To land at a harbour.
Dockverb
To join two moving items.
Dockverb
To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
Docknoun
an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
Docknoun
any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
Docknoun
a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
Docknoun
a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
Docknoun
landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out;
the ship arrived at the dock more than a day lateDocknoun
the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
Docknoun
a short or shortened tail of certain animals
Dockverb
come into dock;
the ship dockedDockverb
deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
Dockverb
deduct from someone's wages
Dockverb
remove or shorten the tail of an animal
Dockverb
haul into a dock;
dock the ships
