Dock - floating platform
Pier - a platform suspended on pilings or concrete legs
Walkway - the wooden or aluminum walking area leading to the ramp or walkway
Gangway - a plank or trussed aluminum bridge leading usually for shore or walkway down to the dock.
Sona column - a concrete column that is used to support walkways and/or piers
Pilings - steel pipe or wooden logs driven into the bottom of a leg of ocean that is used to suspend decks, house for secure dock in the place
Ramp - the trussed aluminum bridge between the shore or Pier head and the floating dock
Pier head - the wooden, steel or concrete eimbutment at the farthest point from land where the ramp usually attaches.
Mezzanine deck - a decks usually at the end of the Pier used for storage off dolleys, wheelbarrow or for taking afternoon tea in the sun
Counter balanced ramps - a system using concrete weights to raise the ramp of the dock in the horizontal position when not in use
Gantry - a series of tall poles on either side of the ramp and cable running over the poles from the far end of the ramp to a winch to raise the end lower the ramp