Lock

[lɒk] or [lɑk]

Definition

(noun.) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured.

(noun.) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed.

(noun.) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key.

(noun.) 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.

(noun.) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun.

(noun.) a strand or cluster of hair.

(verb.) become rigid or immoveable; 'The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise'.

(verb.) fasten with a lock; 'lock the bike to the fence'.

(verb.) hold in a locking position; 'He locked his hands around her neck'.

(verb.) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels.

(verb.) hold fast (in a certain state); 'He was locked in a laughing fit'.

(verb.) pass by means through a lock in a waterway.

Editor: Manuel--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

(n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.

(n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.

(n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.

(n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.

(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

(n.) A grapple in wrestling.

(v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.

(v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.

(v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.

(v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.

(v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.

(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

Typed by Darla

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Lift-lock (of a canal).[2]. Tuft, flock.

v. a. [1]. Fasten (with a lock), close fast.[2]. Confine (by locking), shut up, lock up.[3]. Enclose, encircle, embrace.

Checker: Raffles

Definition

n. a device to fasten doors &c.: an enclosure in a canal for raising or lowering boats: the part of a firearm by which it is discharged: a grapple in wrestling: a state of being immovable: any narrow confined place.—v.t. to fasten with a lock: to fasten so as to impede motion: to shut up: to close fast: to embrace closely: to furnish with locks.—v.i. to become fast: to unite closely.—ns. Lock′age the locks of a canal: the difference in their levels the materials used for them and the tolls paid for passing through them; Lock′-chain a chain for fastening the wheels of a vehicle by tying the rims to some part which does not rotate; Lock′er any closed place that may be locked; Lock′et a little ornamental case of gold or silver usually containing a miniature.—adj. Lock′fast firmly fastened by locks.—ns. Lock′gate a gate for opening or closing a lock in a canal or river; Lock′-hos′pital (see Hospital); Lock′house the lock-keeper's house; Lock′-jaw Locked′-jaw a contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; Lock′-keep′er one who keeps or attends the locks of a canal; Lock′out the act of locking out esp. used of the locking out of a teacher by the pupils or vice vers or of the refusal of an employer to admit his workmen within the works as a means of coercion; Locks′man a turnkey; Lock′smith a smith who makes and mends locks; Lock′stitch a stitch formed by the locking of two threads together; Lock′up a place for locking up or confining persons for a short time.—Not a shot in the locker (naut.) not a penny in the pocket.

n. a tuft or ringlet of hair: a small quantity as of hay: (Scots law) a quantity of meal the perquisite of a mill-servant: (Shak.) a love-lock—n. Lock′man an officer in the Isle of Man who acts as a kind of under-sheriff to the governor.

Editor: Sheldon