lock
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (6)
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- a strand or cluster of hairSynonyms: curlringletwhorl
- 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 itSynonyms: lock chamber
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the keySynonyms: ignition lock
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
Verb (9)
- fasten with a lock“lock the bike to the fence”
- keep engaged“engaged the gears”Synonyms: engagemeshoperate
- 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”Synonyms: interlockinterlace
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another“They were locked in embrace”Synonyms: interlock
- 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”Synonyms: lock inlock awayput awayshut upshut awaylock up
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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]
These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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]
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]
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]