Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A structure that can be submerged to permit the entry and docking of a ship and then raised to lift the ship from the water for repairs. Also called floating drydock.
- n. A dock that is supported by metal pipes on which it can move up and down with the rise and fall of the water level.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water.
- adj. (Naut.) See under Dock.
WordNet 3.0
- n. dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised
Examples
“When Malaya went into the floating dock at Invergordon, Emperor of India came out.”
“They drew up alongside a floating dock about twenty metres off the berg, the bobbing form of an Aquapod submersible visible on one side and two Zodiacs on the other.”
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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Kapok Vest and Other Floaty Words
List of words and things buoyant.
kapok vest, balsa wood, pumice, buoy, lifebuoy, dan, soap bubble, styrofoam, oil, foam, cloud, smoke ring and 44 more...
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