Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move (a ship) away from a dock.
- intransitive verb To uncouple (spacecraft).
- intransitive verb To become uncoupled; separate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take out of dock: as, to dock and undock a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Naut.) To take out of dock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove a
ship from adock . - verb transitive, computing To remove from a
docking station . - verb transitive, computing To
drag auser interface element (such as atoolbar ) away from its fixed position so that it floats freely.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take (a ship) out of a dock
- verb move out of a dock
Etymologies
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Examples
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Atlantis is scheduled to undock from the space station on Monday and land in Florida on Wednesday.
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However, Russia could undock from the Unity Node 1 module and still have a fully operational space station since all the Russian modules are interconnected as a single unit attached to the Unity Node 1 module.
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We need to add a listener to the application to call our undock function whenever the icon is clicked, and second, there is no tooltip property on dock icons.
O'Reilly News 2009
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We can finish up by creating our "undock" and "closeApp" functions. undock (e: Event): void {stage. nativeWindow.restore ();} closeApp (e: Event): void {NativeApplication. exit ();}
O'Reilly News 2009
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To "undock" each application, you can either move it manually or press the Windows key-arrow key in the other direction and the application will return to its original location.
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Escort Mister La Forge to join his comrades, and then tell Grak that he can undock.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Discovery is due to undock from the ISS on Saturday afternoon and, I calculate, should lie a few seconds ahead of the ISS on Saturday and Sunday evenings before it returns to a landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday.
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The pilot and mission Commander Mark Kelly will undock Endeavour from the Space Station and point it towards Earth on Sunday.
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Around 5:30 p.m., a Soyuz spacecraft piloted by Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and carrying a NASA astronaut and an Italian astronaut will undock from a port 50 feet from Endeavour and back away to a distance of about 650 feet.
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Escort Mister La Forge to join his comrades, and then tell Grak that he can undock.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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