Definition of Lock

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Definition of Lock

Lock

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

A grapple in wrestling.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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Lock Quotations

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
Red Skelton

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.
Willie Aames

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
Bill Hicks

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
Billy Sunday

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
Augusten Burroughs

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
Tori Amos

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
George Herbert

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery

Lock Translations

lock in Dutch is slot
lock in Finnish is lukko, lukita
lock in German is Sperre, arretieren, Sperr/absperren
lock in Italian is serratura, chiudere, chiavistello, fermatura
lock in Portuguese is fechamento, fechadura
lock in Spanish is trancar, concluir, bucle, clausurar, obturador

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