Meaning of 'lock' (Webster Dictionary)
- A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or
other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
- 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.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing
upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
- The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or
canal.
- 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.
- That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is
exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing;
as, the door locks close.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
- To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in
a lock.
- To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning
the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Meaning of 'lock' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- keep engaged
Meaning (2):
- hold in a locking position
Example in sentence:- He locked his hands around her neck
Meaning (3):
- hold fast (in a certain state)
Example in sentence:- He was locked in a laughing fit
Meaning (4):
- fasten with a lock
Example in sentence:- lock the bike to the fence
Meaning (5):
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
Example in sentence:- She locked her jewels in the safe;
- The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
Meaning (6):
- become rigid or immoveable
Example in sentence:- The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise
Meaning (7):
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
Example in sentence:- They were locked in embrace
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