'Lock' definitions:

Definition of 'lock'

From: WordNet
noun
A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
noun
A strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet, whorl]
noun
A mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
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 [syn: lock, lock chamber]
noun
A restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key [syn: lock, ignition lock]
noun
Any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
verb
Fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence" [ant: unlock]
verb
Keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh, lock, operate] [ant: disengage, withdraw]
verb
Become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" [ant: unlock]
verb
Hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck" [syn: lock, interlock, interlace]
verb
Become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace" [syn: interlock, lock]
verb
Hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"
verb
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" [syn: lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up]
verb
Pass by means through a lock in a waterway
verb
Build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

Definition of 'Lock'

From: GCIDE
  • Lock \Lock\ (l[o^]k), n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr. ? to bend, twist.] A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. [1913 Webster]
  • These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lock'

From: GCIDE
  • Lock \Lock\, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. l[=u]can to lock, fasten; akin to OS. l[=u]kan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. l[=u]hhan, Icel. l[=u]ka, Goth. l[=u]kan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break. Cf. Locket.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. [1913 Webster]
  • Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. A grapple in wrestling. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Detector lock, a lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with.
  • Lock bay (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber.
  • Lock chamber, the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock.
  • Lock nut. See Check nut, under Check.
  • Lock plate, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached.
  • Lock rail (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail nearest the lock.
  • Lock rand (Masonry), a range of bond stone. --Knight.
  • Mortise lock, a door lock inserted in a mortise.
  • Rim lock, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a mortise lock. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lock'

From: GCIDE
  • Lock \Lock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Locked; p. pr. & vb. n. Locking.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. " Lock hand in hand." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lock'

From: GCIDE
  • Lock \Lock\, v. i. To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close. [1913 Webster]
  • When it locked none might through it pass. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'lock'

From: GCIDE
  • Safety \Safe"ty\, n. [Cf. F. sauvet['e].]
  • 1. The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss. [1913 Webster]
  • Up led by thee, Into the heaven I have presumed, An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down, Return me to my native element. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Would there were any safety in thy sex, That I might put a thousand sorrows off, And credit thy repentance! --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Preservation from escape; close custody. [1913 Webster]
  • Imprison him, . . . Deliver him to safety; and return. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Amer. Football) the act or result of a ball-carrier on the offensive team being tackled behind his own goal line, or the downing of a ball behind the offensive team's own goal line when it had been carried or propelled behind that goal line by a player on the offensive tream; such a play causes a score of two points to be awarded to the defensive team; -- it is distinguished from touchback, when the ball is downed behind the goal after being propelled there or last touched by a player of the defending team. See Touchdown. Same as {Safety touchdown}, below. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  • 5. Short for Safety bicycle. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 6. a switch on a firearm that locks the trigger and prevents the firearm from being discharged unintentionally; -- also called safety catch, safety lock, or lock. [archaic] [PJC]

Definition of 'Lock'

From: Easton
  • Lock The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (Judg. 3:24). (See KEY.)
  • Lock of hair (Judg. 16:13, 19; Ezek. 8:3; Num. 6:5, etc.).

Synonyms of 'lock'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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