寫著內容的那張小紙
這一組都是「一張短短的紙」本身，或是把字寫上去的那個動作。
noun · C1
A short printed form that travels with goods being delivered and lists what is in the delivery.
送貨單
核心畫面
Picture a small slip of paper on the outside of a box. In a few words it says what is inside and what should happen to it, so nobody has to open the box to find out. Now line those slips up in order: that queue of short entries is the other half of the word. One slip tells you what a thing is; a stack of slips tells you what is waiting and whose turn is next.
可以想成一張貼在箱子外面的小紙條。上面用幾個字寫清楚：裡面是什麼、接下來要怎麼處理。有了它，不用打開就知道內容。接著…更多收起
可以想成一張貼在箱子外面的小紙條。上面用幾個字寫清楚：裡面是什麼、接下來要怎麼處理。有了它，不用打開就知道內容。接著把很多張這種紙條照順序排好——這排「短短的紀錄」，就是這個字的另一半。一張紙條告訴你這是什麼東西；一疊紙條告訴你有哪些事在等，以及輪到誰。From the word’s history
The source says the origin is uncertain, and suggests it may be a small form of dock, that is, something cut short. That fits what the word always names — a very short written entry — but the packet states it as a guess, so it is offered here as a guess too.
來源資料說這個字的來歷不確定，只提出一個推測：它可能是 dock 的小稱形式，也就是「被截短的一小條」。這個推測跟它所有的意思都合得起來——docket 講的永遠是一段寫得很短的紀錄。不過來源自己標了不確定，所以這裡也只能當推測看。
Wiktionary entry 'docket' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1012094403): 'Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.'
Two branches
排隊等著處理的清單
把很多張短紀錄照順序排好，就從「一張紙」變成「一份名單」。
noun · C1
In American English, the list of legal cases a court is going to hear, in the order the court will deal with them.
法院案件表