[syn: lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up]
8. pass by means through a lock in a waterway;
9. build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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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.
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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.
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Would there were any safety in thy sex,
That I might put a thousand sorrows off,
And credit thy repentance! --Beau. & Fl.
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3. Preservation from escape; close custody.
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Imprison him, . . .
Deliver him to safety; and return. --Shak.
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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.
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5. Short for Safety bicycle. [archaic]
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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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one
thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
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Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. --De
Quincey.
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3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
--Dryden.
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4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream
or canal.
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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.
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6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is
exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock,
etc.
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7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
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8. A grapple in wrestling. --Milton.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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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.
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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.
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4. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. "
Lock hand in hand." --Shak.
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5. (Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a
boat) in a lock.
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6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by
turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lock \Lock\, v. i.
To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as,
the door locks close.
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When it locked none might through it pass. --Spenser.
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To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each
other. --Boyle.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lock
n 1: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly
closed
2: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet,
whorl]
3: a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
4: 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]
5: 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]
6: any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body
is twisted or pressured
v 1: fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence" [ant:
unlock]
2: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh,
lock, operate] [ant: disengage, withdraw]
3: become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the
patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" [ant:
unlock]
4: hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her
neck" [syn: lock, interlock, interlace]
5: become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were
locked in embrace" [syn: interlock, lock]
6: hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing
fit"
7: 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]
8: pass by means through a lock in a waterway
9: build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels