Meaning of lock in English
Verb
lockDefinitions
1. fasten with a lockExamples
- « lock the bike to the fence »
Antonyms
- 2. keep engaged
Examples
- « engaged the gears »
Antonyms
- 3. become rigid or immoveable
Examples
- « The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise »
Antonyms
- 4. hold in a locking position
Examples
- « He locked his hands around her neck »
- 5. become engaged or intermeshed with one another
Examples
- « They were locked in embrace »
- 6. hold fast (in a certain state)
Examples
- « He was locked in a laughing fit »
- 7. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
Examples
- « The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend »
- « She locked her jewels in the safe »
- 8. pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- 9. build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
Noun
lockEtymology
Old English loc, of Germanic origin; related to German Loch‘hole’Definitions
1. a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed- 2. a strand or cluster of hair
- 3. a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- 4. enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level
Examples
- « used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it »
- 5. a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- 6. any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured