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English

Etymology 1

Image:Padlock.jpg|thumb|right|A key lock. (a device requiring a key or a combination to be opened) Image:RHK Lock Wanne 2.jpg|thumb|right|A lock (canal segment). loc

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
  2. *1883, w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island|Treasure Island
  3. *: "Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.
  4. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
  5. The firing mechanism of a gun.
  6. A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.


Derived terms


Translations
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|brava|f}}
  • Bulgarian: {{t|bg|ключалка|f|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Catalan: {{t-|ca|cadenat|m}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|zámek|m}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|slot|n}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|serrure|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Schloss|n}}
  • Gujarati: તાળું (tālu.n)
  • Hindi: {{t-|hi|ताला|m|sc=Deva|xs=Hindi}} (tālā)
  • Italian: {{t-|it|serratura|f}}, {{t|it|chiavistello|m}}, {{t+|it|lucchetto|m}}
  • Japanese: (jō)
  • Catalan: {{t|ca|resclosa|f}}
  • Czech: {{t|cs|zdymadlo|n}}, {{t|cs|plavební komora|f}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|sluis|f}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|écluse|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Schleuse|f}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|chiusa|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|шлюз|m|sc=Cyrl}} (šl'uz)
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|esclusa|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t|sv|sluss|c}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|haan|m}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|verrou|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Schloss|n}}
  • Portuguese: {{t-|pt|trava|f}}

Etymology 2

locc

Noun

  1. tuft or length of hair


Related terms


Translations
  • Czech: lokna
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|lok|f}}
  • Finnish:
  • German: {{t-|de|Locke|f}}

Etymology 3

lūcan

Verb

  1. To become fastened in place
  2. : If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock.
  3. (break dancing) To freeze ones body or a part thereof in place
  4. :a pop and lock routine
  5. To fasten with a lock.
  6. : Remember to lock the door when you leave.


Antonyms


Derived terms


Translations

References

: 1-5. 1. Maria Cristina Bareggi, ed. Turin: Paravia, 2003 (in collaboration with Oxford University Press). W:Wikipedia:book sources| ISBN 8839551107.

Category:1000 English basic words Category:English ergative verbs Category:English intransitive verbs Category:English transitive verbs Category:Hair Category:Canal

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Swedish

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-lock.ogg


Noun

lock

  1. lock of hair
  2. cover, lid
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Synonyms


Derived terms

  • Få lock för örat: be deafened. When you have bad hearing from the change in air pressure due to an air plane flight. So it’s sort of like having a casserole cover in your ear XHTML::MediaWiki::Parser=HASH(0x8909714) 3XHTML::MediaWiki::Parser=HASH(0x8909714)


References

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]
WordNet lock
n 1: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly
closed
2: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: 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 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: 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,
unlock]
2: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh, operate]
[ant: disengage]
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: interlock, interlace]
5: become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were
locked in embrace" [syn: interlock]
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, 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
Moby Dictionary
aboideau , accord , agree , air lock , answer to , articulate , assent ,
assort with , authority , bang , bar , barricade , barrier , batten ,
batten down , be consistent , be of one , be uniform with , bear hug ,
bind , block , block up , blockade , bolt , buckle , butt , button ,
button up , cage , catch , cessation , check , chime , chock , choke ,
choke off , clap , clasp , cleat , clip , close , close off , close out ,
close tight , close up , clutch , cohere , coincide , command , commit ,
concur , confine , conform , conform with , consist with , constrain ,
constrict , contain , contract , control , coop up , cooperate ,
correspond , cover , crimp , crowd , curl , dead set , dead stand ,
dead stop , deadlock , debar , detain , dock gate , dog , dovetail ,
dying down , ebb , ebbing , engage , entangle , entwine , exclude ,
fall in together , fasten , fit together , fix , fix on , fix upon ,
flood-hatch , floodgate , fold , fold up , follow , frizz , frizzle ,
full nelson , full stop , gate , go together , go with , grapple , grasp ,
half nelson , halt , hang together , harmonize , hasp , head gate ,
hinge , hit , hitch , hold , hold together , hook , implant , impound ,
imprison , incarcerate , interlock , intersect , jam , jibe , join ,
joint , keep out , keep track of , key , latch , lock gate , lock in ,
lock out , lock up , match , miter , mortise , nail , oblige , obstruct ,
occlude , overlap , pack , padlock , parallel , peg , penstock , pin ,
plant , plumb , ponytail , power , pursue , quarter nelson , rabbet ,
register , register with , respond to , restrain , restrict , retain ,
ringlet , rivet , scarf , scissors , screw , seal , seal off , seal up ,
secure , sew , shut , shut off , shut out , shut the door , shut tight ,
shut up , sing in chorus , skewer , slam , sluice , sluice gate , snap ,
sort with , square , square with , squeeze , squeeze shut , stabilize ,
stand , stand together , standstill , staple , stick , stifle ,
stillstand , stitch , stop , stop up , strangle , stranglehold ,
strangulate , subsidence , suffocate , supervision , sway , tack , tally ,
tide gate , toehold , toggle , track , tress , wane , waning , water gate ,
wedge , weir , zip up , zipper


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.).
LOCK-:AND:-:KEY:, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
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