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DRYDOCK
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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 ("drydock" 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 "drydock"):
floating dock; floating dry dock (dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised)
Holonyms ("drydock" is a part of...):
shipyard (a workplace where ships are built or repaired)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Maneuver (a ship) into a drydock
Synonyms:
dry-dock; drydock
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "drydock" is one way to...):
dock (maneuver into a dock)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
