[
US
/ˈɫɑk/
]
[ UK /lˈɒk/ ]
[ UK /lˈɒk/ ]
VERB
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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
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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
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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
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.
- 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.
- I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
- I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems. 1930 Art Deco Henderson
- McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks. MPNnow Home RSS
- 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
- 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.