lock

Speech parts

1. lock - Noun

2. lock - Verb

3. Lock - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

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.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

curl shut up ringlet lock up bolt interlace strand interlock operate secure bar engage catch shut mesh
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Antonyms

unlock colt lisle slack free hand
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Hypernyms

make move hold pass build mechanism

Hyponyms

bolt switch throw ride flip latch

Phrases with the word

lock horns under lock and key lock through lock it in dead-lock lock, stock, and barrel

Derivatives

locked locking

Anagrams

KLOC

Examples

engaged the gears Source: Internet

He locked his hands around her neck Source: Internet

They were locked in embrace Source: Internet

The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise Source: Internet

The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend Source: Internet

She locked her jewels in the safe Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

loci Locicero locin lock and load lock away lock bolt