Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LOCK

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Definitions of LOCK

1. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
2. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
3. Complete control over a situation.
4. Something sure to be a success.
5. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
6. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
7. A grapple in wrestling.
8. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
9. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
10. A tuft or length of hair, wool etc.
11. A small quantity of straw etc.
12. A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
13. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
14. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
15. (gun mechanisms) The firing mechanism.
16. (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book
17. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
18. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
19. (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
20. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
21. (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
22. (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
23. (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
24. (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
25. A surname.
26. A unincorporated community in Knox County and, Licking County, Ohio, USA.
27. A town in Elliston, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia; from the surname.
28. (Internet, wiki, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
29. (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.

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Examples of Using LOCK in a Sentence

• Cardano partially invented and described several mechanical devices including the combination lock, the gimbal consisting of three concentric rings allowing a supported compass or gyroscope to rotate freely, and the Cardan shaft with universal joints, which allows the transmission of rotary motion at various angles and is used in vehicles to this day.
• Scroll Lock (⤓ or ⇳) is a lock key (typically with an associated status light) on most IBM-compatible computer keyboards.
• 2 introduced support for Sun's first sun4m-architecture multiprocessor machines (the SPARCserver 600MP series); since it had only a single lock for the kernel, only one CPU at a time could execute in the kernel.
• It incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch, developed by Elias Howe, who won a patent-infringement suit against Singer in 1854.
• NUMA is beneficial for workloads with high memory locality of reference and low lock contention, because a processor may operate on a subset of memory mostly or entirely within its own cache node, reducing traffic on the memory bus.
• A phase-locked loop or phase lock loop (PLL) is a control system that generates an output signal whose phase is fixed relative to the phase of an input signal.
• Simpler models use a serrated edge to lock the movable jaw to size, while more sophisticated versions are digital types that use sheets or feelers to set the size.
• Lawrence Seaway, a lock and canal system that enables world marine traffic to access the inland ports of the Great Lakes Waterway.
• The connector has a twist to lock design with two lugs in the female portion of the connector engaging a slot in the shell of the male portion.
• Its name means "the entangled one" or "the deceiver", and has also been translated as "wolf lock" and "absurd lock".
• When the United States began lock downs in March 2020, The Cocoon witnessed a forty percent increase in calls from survivors and a fifty percent increase in sexual violence reports.
• The Blish lock is a breech locking mechanism designed by John Bell Blish based upon his assumption that under extreme pressures, certain dissimilar metals would resist movement with a force greater than friction laws would predict.
• Moyer reported that some men from Montevideo went to Chippewa City and took the county records, "lock, stock and barrel".
• He is created by the wrath of Shiva, when the deity hurls a lock of his matted hair upon the ground, upon hearing of the self-immolation of his consort, Sati, at the Daksha yajna.

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