lock

Nouns

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

Verbs

• (v) fasten with a lock
  • lock the bike to the fence
• (v) keep engaged
  • engaged the gears
  mesh, operate, engage,
• (v) become rigid or immoveable
  • The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise
• (v) hold in a locking position
  • He locked his hands around her neck
  interlace, interlock,
• (v) become engaged or intermeshed with one another
  • They were locked in embrace
  interlock,
• (v) hold fast (in a certain state)
  • He was locked in a laughing fit
• (v) 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
  lock away, put away, shut away, lock in, lock up, shut up,
• (v) pass by means through a lock in a waterway
• (v) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

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