Lock
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Lock
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1 n.
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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2 n.
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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3 n.
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
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4 n.
A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
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5 n.
The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
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6 n.
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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7 n.
That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
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8 n.
A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
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9 n.
A grapple in wrestling.
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10 v. t.
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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11 v. t.
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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12 v. t.
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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13 v. t.
To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
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14 v. t.
To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
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15 v. t.
To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
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16 v. i.
To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
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17 n.
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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18 n.
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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19 n.
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
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20 n.
A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
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21 n.
The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
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22 n.
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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23 n.
That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
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24 n.
A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
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25 n.
A grapple in wrestling.
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26 v. t.
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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27 v. t.
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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28 v. t.
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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29 v. t.
To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
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30 v. t.
To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
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31 v. t.
To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
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32 v. i.
To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.