DOCKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does docket mean? 

• DOCKET (noun)
  The noun DOCKET has 2 senses:

1. (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities

2. a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

  Familiarity information: DOCKET used as a noun is rare.

• DOCKET (verb)
  The verb DOCKET has 2 senses:

1. place on the docket for legal action

2. make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list

  Familiarity information: DOCKET used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOCKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("docket" is a kind of...):

calendar (a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

docket (make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list)

docket (place on the docket for legal action)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

agenda; docket; schedule

Hypernyms ("docket" is a kind of...):

plan; program; programme (a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "docket"):

fare; menu (an agenda of things to do)

• DOCKET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they docket    ... he / she / it dockets   
Past simple: docketed   
Past participle: docketed   
-ing form: docketing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place on the docket for legal action

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried

Hypernyms (to "docket" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

docket ((law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "docket" is one way to...):

resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

docket ((law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities)

 Context examples 

To remember it—to docket it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For many years he had adopted a system of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once furnish information.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)