lock

[ US /ˈɫɑk/ ]
[ UK /lˈɒk/ ]

VERB

fasten with a lock
lock the bike to the fence
become engaged or intermeshed with one another
They were locked in embrace
build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
keep engaged
engaged the gears
become rigid or immoveable
The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise
pass by means through a lock in a waterway
hold in a locking position
He locked his hands around her neck
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

NOUN

a strand or cluster of hair
a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
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

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How To Use lock In A Sentence

Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block. The Sun
Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
Which drugs become blockbusters is in many respects a lottery. Times, Sunday Times
They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over their three children.
Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania. The Forever City
It literally unlocks the prejudice of so many people, and emancipates them from the dungeon of partial judgment. WHAT IS SAID, NOT WHO SAYS IT
‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’

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