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DRY DOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline
Synonyms:
dry dock; drydock; graving dock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dry dock" is a kind of...):
dock; dockage; docking facility (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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dry dock"):
floating dock; floating dry dock (dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised)
Holonyms ("dry dock" is a part of...):
shipyard (a workplace where ships are built or repaired)
