lock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der.
Proto-Germanic *luką
Proto-West Germanic *lok
Old English loc
Middle English lok
English lock
From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”).
Cognate with Cimbrian loch, lòch (“hole”), Dutch lok (“hole”), German Loch (“hole”), German Low German Lock (“hole”), Luxembourgish Lach (“hole”), Vilamovian łöch (“hole”), Yiddish לאָך (lokh, “hole”), Danish låg (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Bokmål lokk (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Nynorsk lok, lokk (“lid, cover”).
more detail
The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Cognate with Dutch luiken (“to close, to shut”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål lukke (“to close, to shut”), Faroese lúka (“to end, to finish”), Icelandic ljúka (“to close, to shut”), Norwegian Nynorsk lukka (“to close, to shut”). Related to luxe via Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: locks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: locks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: locking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: locked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: locked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: locken
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
pos: noun
examples: "Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.
We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.
gloss: A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: [T]he application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.
gloss: A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
pos: noun
examples: Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.
gloss: The firing mechanism.
pos: noun
examples: "I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.
gloss: Complete control over a situation.
pos: noun
examples: Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.
gloss: Something sure to be a success.
pos: noun
examples: Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.
gloss: Synonym of Dutch book.
pos: noun
gloss: A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
pos: noun
examples: Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava.
gloss: A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
pos: noun
examples: [O]n may of his lecture days I have seen all Albemarle Street closed by a "lock" of carriages, filled with women of distinction, until the servants of the Institution or their own footmen advanced to the carriage-doors with the intelligence that Mr. Coleridge had been suddenly taken ill.
gloss: A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
pos: noun
examples: Sergestus, eager with his beak to press / Betwixt the rival galley and the rock, / Shuts up the unwieldy Centaur in the lock
gloss: A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
pos: noun
gloss: A grapple in wrestling.
pos: noun
examples: They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling
gloss: To become fastened in place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock.
We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.
gloss: To fasten with a lock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Remember to lock the door when you leave.
gloss: To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This door locks with a key.
gloss: To intertwine or dovetail.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: with his hands locked behind his back
We locked arms and stepped out into the night.
gloss: To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: a pop and lock routine
gloss: To furnish (a canal) with locks.
pos: verb
gloss: To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
pos: verb
gloss: To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
pos: verb
gloss: To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
gloss: To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: Frequently-vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.
gloss: To play in the position of lock.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Please don't disappoint me - you are female, aren't you? I have a lingering suspicion that you are 17 stone and lock for Tarankai.
Derived words: air lock
alcolock
anklelock
armlock
bike lock
bikelock
boxlock
brainlock
Bramah lock
button lock
cannon lock
chinlock
clasp lock
cliplock
combination lock
couch lock
couchlock
deathlock
differential lock
diff lock
D lock
double lock standing seam
drop-lock
drop lock
electric lock pick
Enfield Lock
eyelock
facelock
fermentation lock
fetlock
fetterlock
firelock
flatlock
frame lock
genlock
gimbal lock
guard lock
hammerlock
handlock
hardlock
hashlock
have it on lock
headlock
hep-lock
hip lock
hock lock
horse-lock
hydrolock
hydrostatic lock
inlock
interlock
jail lock
Janus-faced lock
joint lock
keycard lock
keylock
leg lock
lidlock
line lock
liner lock
lip lock
lip-lock
lockage
lockblade
lockbolt
lockbox
lockchamber
lock convoy
lockdown
lock-down
locker
lockfast
lock-free
lockful
Lock Haven
lock hospital
lockhouse
lockjaw
lockkeeper
lock key
lockless
locklike
lockmaker
lockmaking
lockmaster
locknote
locknut
lockpick
lock-pick
lock pick
lockpicker
lock pick gun
lockpicking
lock-picking
lock picking
lockpin
lockplate
Lockport
lockring
lock screen
lockset
lockshield
lockside
locksman
locksmith
locksmithery
locksmithing
locks only keep honest people honest
locksport
lock-step
lockstep
lock stitch
lockstitch
lock, stock and barrel
lock time
Locktober
lock-weir
Lockwood
lockwork
love-lock
love lock
maglock
manlock
mindlock
mortise lock
multilock
necklock
oarlock
O-lock
percussion lock
permutation lock
picklock
picture lock
puzzle lock
rebounding lock
rim lock
ring-lock
riplock
safety lock
scalp lock
sealock
seat lock
side-lock
slock
snaplock
spinlock
spring lock
stasis lock
stock lock
suitlock
taglock
threadlock
tick a lock
tidal lock
tightlock
triple-lock
triple lock
twistlock
under lock and key
uplock
vapor lock
vapour lock
wagon lock
weighlock
wheel lock
window lock
wristlock
antilock
anti-lock
belock
box and lock
core locked
double-lock
landlock
land-locked salmon
lip-locked
lockability
lockable
lock and load
lock away
lock down
locked fault
locked groove
locked-in syndrome
locked nucleic acid
locked rotor amp
lock eyes
lock horns
lock in
lock-in
lock into
lock lips
lock off
lock on
lock out
lock-out
lockout
lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen
lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
lock through
lock under
lock up
lock-up
lockup
mode-locked
phase-locked loop
relock
sea-locked
self-locking
stunlock
thread-locking fluid
tidally locked
unlock
unlockability
unlockable
wood-locked
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