![]() ![]() US The truck left the loading dock with hoses still attached. countable noun A dock is a platform for loading vehicles or trains. She headed for the docks, thinking that Ricardo might be hiding in one of the boats. ![]() The defendant while on trial is not yet proven guilty or innocent, so in that sense, he or she is between the piers too.īut I guess a cage makes even more sense because the defendant is under custody and is being suspected of having committed a crime. A dock is an enclosed area in a harbor where ships go to be loaded, unloaded, and repaired. That makes sense too because a dock is between two piers and the ship can unload what it's carrying. I was still able to guess the meaning of it but I thought that "dock" was referring to a ship dock, and not a cage. I'm not too familiar with this idiom, naturally, as I haven't lived in the UK. A docking station is a piece of hardware that allows a user to convert their portable laptop into a desktop computer by adding more ports to it. ![]() For example, there was an article in the paper last week about scientists debating a theory and they said that the theory was "in the dock." Sort of like when the defendant is being cross-examined in court. In the other sense, I've heard the idiom used when something is being debated. With a docking station, you can get the best of both worlds with a system that allows your laptop to work for both purposes. But the idiom must have been borrowed from British English and is used in American trials as well. Docking stations for laptops are meant to bridge the gap between portability and having a stationary place to work and play. Contractors Licensing Act of 1999 requires that all construction. Of course there is no actual enclosure like in the British courts. My permit states that I have to use a licensed marine builder. They compared the defendant to a "vessel" and to the place he stands as the "dock" and that's where "in the dock" came from.Īctually, I've heard this phrase being used in American courts too. In addition, UK is a maritime nation so the courtroom is under admiralty jurisdiction (basically the law of the sea). Isn't the law of the courtroom in both the US and the UK considered maritime law? Because a wide range of dockable devicesfrom mobile phones to wireless mouse have different connectors, power signaling, and uses, docks are unstandardized and are therefore often. I thought that the enclosed area was called a dock because of maritime law. In computing, a docking station or port replicator ( hub) or dock provides a simplified way to plug-in a mobile device, such as a laptop, to common peripherals. ![]()
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