undock
verb
Forms undocks undocking undocked
- verb (transitive) To remove (a ship) from a dock.
- verb (astronautics) To depart a spaceship from a dock/berth/mount/mooring under its own power
- verb (transitive, computing) To remove from a docking station. “After I undock my laptop, I can run it for about six hours on battery power.”
- verb (transitive, computing) To drag (a user interface element, such as a toolbar) away from its fixed position so that it floats freely.
Antonyms
Etymology
From un- + dock.
Webster’s 1913
Etymology [1st pref. un- + dock.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “undock”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details