GC: n
S: BBC – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2217251.stm (last access: 31 January 2014); Suisca – https://www.suiscagroup.com/en/noticias/floating-docks-for-ships/ (last access: 16 June 2024).
N: 1.- floating (adj): From verb “float”, late Old English flotian “to rest on the surface of water” (intransitive; class II strong verb; past tense fleat, past participle floten), from Proto-Germanic *flotan “to float” (source also of Old Norse flota, Middle Dutch vloten, Old High German flozzan, German flössen), from PIE *plud-, extended form of root *pleu- “to flow.”
Meaning “drift about, hover passively” is from c. 1300. Transitive sense of “to lift up, cause to float” (of water, etc.) is from c. 1600; that of “set (something) afloat” is from 1778 (originally of financial operations). Of motion through air, from 1630s. Meaning “hover dimly before the eyes” is from 1775. Related: Floated; floating. A floating rib (by 1802) is so called because the anterior ends are not connected to the rest.
– dock (n): “ship’s berth, any structure in or upon which a ship may be held for loading, repairing, etc.,” late 15c., dokke, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German docke, which is perhaps ultimately (via Late Latin *ductia “aqueduct”) from Latin ducere “to lead” (from PIE root *deuk- “to lead”); or possibly from a Scandinavian word for “low ground” (compare Norwegian dokk “hollow, low ground”). The original sense was perhaps “furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank.”
2. Floating dry docks have the initial advantage that they can be built and fully equipped in shipyard and factory conditions, in which their construction is not subject to unforeseen hazards arising from weather and variations in the ground conditions from those anticipated during design. The floating dock can be towed to the site, moored, and made ready for operation.
3. A dock which is immersed so that ships can enter through the vacant channel areas.
4. When all the stagings are fixed the dock is refloated to its original level.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=floating%20dock&lc=es, https://www.etymonline.com/search?page=2&q=floating%20dock&type= (last access: 16 June 2024). 2. EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/technology/floating-dry-dock (last access: 28 July 2015). 3 & 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=floating+dock&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 16 June 2024).
SYN: floating dry dock
S: EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/technology/floating-dry-dock (last access: 28 July 2015); TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=floating+dock&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 16 June 2024) ; GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8880401/cale-flottante (last access: 16 June 2024).
CR: beaching place, dry dock, grounding, shipyard, shoal, stranding, stranding site.
