lock

Meanings

Plural: locks

Noun

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
• a strand or cluster of hair
• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
• Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
• A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
• A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
• The firing mechanism.
• Complete control over a situation.
• Something sure to be a success.
• Synonym of Dutch book.
• A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
• A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
• A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
• A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
• A grapple in wrestling.
• A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
• A small quantity of straw etc.
• A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.

Verb

• fasten with a lock
  • "lock the bike to the fence"
• keep engaged
• become rigid or immoveable
  • "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
• hold in a locking position
  • "He locked his hands around her neck"
• become engaged or intermeshed with one another
  • "They were locked in embrace"
• hold fast (in a certain state)
  • "He was locked in a laughing fit"
• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
  • "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"
  • "She locked her jewels in the safe"
• pass by means through a lock in a waterway
• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
• To become fastened in place.
• To fasten with a lock.
• To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
• To intertwine or dovetail.
• To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
• To furnish (a canal) with locks.
• To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
• To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
• To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
• To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
• To play in the position of lock.

Synonyms

curl, Dutch book, engage, ignition lock, interlace, interlock, lock away, lock chamber, lock in, lock up, mesh, operate, put away, ringlet, shut away, shut up, whorl

Antonyms

disengage, unlock