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Meaning of lock
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lock
n 1: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly
closed
2: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: {lock}, {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}, {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:
{lock}, {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}]
2: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: {engage}, {mesh},
{lock}, {operate}] [ant: {disengage}, {withdraw}]
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: {lock}, {interlock}, {interlace}]
5: become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were
locked in embrace" [syn: {interlock}, {lock}]
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}, {lock}, {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
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