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difference between 'pier' and 'dock'
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Both words have quite a variety of meanings, but - in the sense in which you probably mean here - there is not a great deal of difference between them.
Basically, each is a wall at which ships are tied up at the end of a voyage. Thus, the Master of a vessel might order the sailors to "Make fast to the dock" or "Make fast to the peir" and each would mean excatly the same thing...ie tie the ropes/hawsers to link the ship to the harbour-side.
yup i agree, one sticks out and the other erm sticks in.
Hi Kay jay, these differences, you will note some of the meanings of dock, in that one can dock at a pier! gives an idea that in English words can gain meanings and not only that, onemeaning can be opposite to the other!
Fast - as in hold fast and to go fast is the obvious example. These words of which dock maybe one are called auto-antonyms. One of the ways the English gaze at their navels is to think of other auto-antonyms. and to come to think of it, i think i will go run a bath, and do ust that!
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