lock

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

4. 4noun

   A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

5. 5noun

   The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.

6. 6noun

   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. 7noun

   That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.

8. 8noun

   A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

9. 9noun

   A grapple in wrestling.

10. 10transitive 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. 11transitive 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. 12transitive 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. 13transitive verb

    To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.

14. 14transitive verb

    To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.

15. 15transitive verb

    To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

16. 16intransitive verb

    To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

17. 17noun

    any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

18. 18noun

    a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

19. 19noun

    a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

20. 20noun

    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. 21noun

    a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

22. 22noun

    a strand or cluster of hair

    Synonyms

    curlringletwhorl
23. 23verb

    become rigid or immoveable

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

24. 24verb

    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. 25verb

    fasten with a lock

    "lock the bike to the fence"

26. 26verb

    keep engaged

    "engaged the gears"

    Synonyms

    engagemeshoperate
27. 27verb

    become engaged or intermeshed with one another

    "They were locked in embrace"

    Synonyms

    interlock
28. 28verb

    hold in a locking position

    "He locked his hands around her neck"

    Synonyms

    interlaceinterlock
29. 29verb

    build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

30. 30verb

    hold fast (in a certain state)

    "He was locked in a laughing fit"

31. 31verb

    pass by means through a lock in a waterway