Queue and Dock

noun

• A line of people or vehicles waiting for something.
  • synonyms: waiting line
• Information processing. ( an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)
• A braid of hair at the back of the head.

verb

• Form a queue, form a line, stand in line.
  • usage: "Customers lined up in front of the store"
  • synonyms: line up, queue up

• (n.) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
• (n.) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
• (v.t.) To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

noun

• An enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial.
• Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine.
  • synonyms: sorrel, sour grass
• A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats.
  • synonyms: pier, wharf, wharfage
• A platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded.
  • synonyms: loading dock
• 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.
  • usage: "the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late"
  • synonyms: dockage, docking facility
• The solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair.
• A short or shortened tail of certain animals.
  • synonyms: bobtail, bob

verb

• Come into dock.
  • usage: "the ship docked"
• Deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty.
• Deduct from someone's wages.
• Remove or shorten the tail of an animal.
  • synonyms: tail, bob
• Maneuver into a dock.
  • usage: "dock the ships"

• (v.t.) To cut off, bar or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
• (v.t.) To draw, law or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
• (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
• (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
• (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
• (v.t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
• (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
• (v.t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
• (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting.
• (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.