lock up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɒk ˈʌp/
Forms: form: locks up
form: locking up
form: locked up
form: locked up
Etymology: lock + up
Senses: examples: text: In 1970, a new era of "getting tough" on young offenders really began to gather momentum with the incoming Conservative government. The number of juveniles locked up each year increased by 500% between 1965 and 1980.
ref: 2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: send away
shut away
glosses: To imprison or incarcerate (someone).
examples: text: Please lock up all valuables in the safe before leaving.
text: Angus is back in town! Better lock up your daughters, your wife, and your sheep!
glosses: To put (something) away in a locked location for safekeeping; (occasionally, chiefly humorously) to sequester (a person) in a similar way.
coordinate_terms: lock down#Verb
glosses: To close (and often lock) all doors and windows (of a place) securely.
examples: text: That door still needs to be locked up.
glosses: To lock (a door, window, etc.).
examples: text: When I press this button, the program locks up.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: freeze#Verb
freeze up#Verb
hang#Verb
hang up#Verb
glosses: To cease responding.
examples: text: If your password contains a particular string of letters, entering it can lock up the login form.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To stop moving; to seize.
examples: text: Due to the engines-out condition, the landing was conducted without the brake antiskid and normal breaking^([sic]) systems. Because the emergency brake accumulator only provides for a limited amount of brake applications, full braking was applied and retained at the second touch down, resulting in the main wheels locking up. The tires quickly abraded and deflated at a point between about 300 and 450 feet beyond the second and final touch down.
ref: 2004 October 18, Gabinete de Prevenção e Investigação de Acidentes com Aeronaves, “1.3 Damage to Aircraft”, in Accident Investigation Final Report: All Engines-out Landing Due to Fuel Exhaustion, Air Transat Airbus A330-243 marks C-GITS, Lajes, Azores, Portugal, 24 August 2001, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2022, page 11:
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To stop moving; to seize.
To stop spinning due to excessive braking torque.
raw_tags: of a wheel
glosses: To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze.
examples: text: Twelve laps later, Leclerc locked up at the first chicane and clattered over the run-off area. Again, Hamilton got a run on him, and this time Leclerc defended robustly through the flat-out Curva Grande, moving very late to block Hamilton to the Ferrari's left.
ref: 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning).
glosses: To invest in something long term.
antonyms: lock down
hypernyms: lock through
qualifier: boating
glosses: To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To fasten quoins securely with a mallet and a shooting-stick.
examples: text: He locked up the championship with that move.
glosses: To assure success in or control of (something).
Derived terms: word: lock someone up and throw away the key
word: lockup
word: lock-up
Related terms: sense: invest in something
word: lockaway