also: ドッグ
Refers to a dock for ships or boats. Common in compounds like ドック入り (docking).
船がドックに入って修理を受けた。
The ship entered the dock for repairs.
thorough physical examination; health checkup
Abbreviation of 人間ドック (ningen dock). Refers to a comprehensive medical checkup, often at a hospital or clinic.
See also: 人間ドック
来月、会社のドックを受ける予定です。
I'm scheduled to have a company health checkup next month.
The tanker went into dock for repairs.
My father gets a full checkup every year.
ドッグ is the loanword for 'dog' (as in ドッグフード), while ドック means a ship's dock or a health checkup, and the two are easily mixed up due to their nearly identical spelling and pronunciation.
comprehensive medical check-up; thorough physical examination
dry dock
comprehensive brain checkup
building dock
floating dock
Standard katakana spelling for both the 'dock' and 'health checkup' senses.
Irregular kana variant; it has irregular kana usage. Not recommended for learners.
Borrowed from English 'dock'. The health checkup sense comes from the metaphor of a ship entering a dock for inspection and repair.