lock

lock is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
4. noun. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
5. noun. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
8. noun. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
9. noun. A grapple in wrestling.
10. transitive verb. 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.
11. transitive verb. 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.
12. transitive verb. 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.
13. transitive verb. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
14. transitive verb. To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
15. transitive verb. To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
16. intransitive verb. To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
17. noun. any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
18. noun. a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
19. noun. a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
20. noun. 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
21. noun. a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
22. noun. a strand or cluster of hair

    Synonyms: curl, ringlet, whorl

23. verb. become rigid or immoveable

    "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"

24. verb. 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"

25. verb. fasten with a lock

    "lock the bike to the fence"

26. verb. keep engaged

    "engaged the gears"

    Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate

27. verb. become engaged or intermeshed with one another

    "They were locked in embrace"

    Synonyms: interlock

28. verb. hold in a locking position

    "He locked his hands around her neck"

    Synonyms: interlace, interlock

29. verb. build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
30. verb. hold fast (in a certain state)

    "He was locked in a laughing fit"

31. verb. pass by means through a lock in a waterway

Synonyms

curl, ringlet, whorl, engage, mesh, operate, interlock, interlace

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lock:

colk

Common word forms

locks, locked, locker, lockful, locking, lockable, lockless

Words from these letters

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