What's the difference between fleck and lock?

Fleck


Definition:

  • (n.) A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
  • (n.) A spot; a streak; a speckle.
  • (n.) To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The number of nuclear flecks and the amount of bound radioactivity of 125I-antibody almost doubled during G1 phase.
  • (2) On histologic examination, the flecks were found to be due to intracellular accumulation of calcium oxalate in the RPE cells.
  • (3) 1) small elevation, 2) spotty barium fleck, 3) ill defined barium fleck and 4) barium fleck with halo were suggested the possibility of inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (4) Six neonates are described in whom plain films of the abdomen demonstrated scattered flecks of calcification.
  • (5) Control photographs, with the Baird Atomic B4 and B5 filters in place prior to fluorescein injection, show exposure of the film corresponding to (1) the small yellow vitelliform lesions at the edge of a disrupted disc, (2) the pseudohpopyon in a vitelliform cyst, (3) orange lipofuscin overlying a malignant melanoma, and (4) some of the flecks in a case of funds flavimaculatus.
  • (6) In 1909, Dr. Stargardt described seven patients who developed a juvenile onset macular degeneration with a striking presentation of yellowish flecks surrounding the macula.
  • (7) The assays of G6PDH and RNA were performed after Glock's and Fleck's methods, respectively.
  • (8) Only the son had the typical lenticonus and perimacular flecks.
  • (9) As late as 2012, the gracious address contained flecks of modernising reform – the (largely delivered) move to abolish male primogeniture in the monarchy and the (entirely aborted) effort at electing the Lords.
  • (10) The symptoms include unique, sharply-defined, irregular, yellow, large flecks of the retina combined with bilateral macula degeneration.
  • (11) However, fundus appearance, adaptometric findings, and rhodopsin determinations serve to distinguish fundus albipunctatus from other flecked retina diseases.
  • (12) Apart from a small bruise beneath the right eye and some flecks of blood surrounding the iris (which he attributed to Foreman’s thumb), he was unmarked.
  • (13) Fluorescein angiography showed that most white flecks were largely or totally nonfluorescent.
  • (14) As the degenerative and atrophic changes in the maculae became more pronounced in early adulthood, the flavimacular retinal flecks had all but disappeared.
  • (15) (He was also responsible for Sex Pistol, flecked with Viagra.)
  • (16) They chased every ball, never shirked a tackle and, when they needed a centre-forward to show composure and experience, they had a 32-year-old from Stoke City, with silver flecks in his hair, who passed the test with distinction.
  • (17) Two families showed a retinal pigment epithelial dystrophy characterized by an X-shaped yellowish macular lesion and numerous flavimaculatus retinal flecks.
  • (18) Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian Olive choux buns These big, olive-flecked choux buns are perfect torn open, as you might with a floury bap, and spread with a slick of tapenade or, simpler still, a knifeful of soft, salty butter.
  • (19) Small metal flecks were seen grossly at the second level, but not on plain roentgenograms.
  • (20) It appears that the prognosis of group I is better than the other groups, where surrounding flecks are seen in addition to the macular lesion.

Lock


Definition:

  • (n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
  • (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
  • (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
  • (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  • (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
  • (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
  • (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
  • (2) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (3) In contrast, 1:1 phase locking characterized the electrical correlates of the duodenal activity front.
  • (4) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
  • (5) The commonly used line-to-line reaming technique was compared to an underreaming technique using both four-fifths and one-third porous-coated anatomic medullary locking (AML) implants.
  • (6) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
  • (7) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (8) One top Republican official told the Guardian the party has for months been locked in secret talks with TV networks about how – or whether – it will fit all the candidates onstage for the primary debates.
  • (9) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
  • (10) On Wednesday, managing director Mike Devereux also flagged that the company's future in the country was not certain if government funding was not locked in over a long period.
  • (11) The violence led to the temporary suspension of the council's monthly meeting with some staff at one stage locked in rooms to ensure their safety.
  • (12) There have been reports of difficulties with the seating and locking of the vaporisers which can cause a leak and failure of vapour delivery.
  • (13) Such mutations lead to a major reduction in the rate of GTP hydrolysis by the complex of ras p21 and the GTPase activating protein (GAP) and lock the protein in a growth-promoting state.
  • (14) He was a fixture at Trump rallies, where he met chants of “Lock her up” against Hillary Clinton with a smile.
  • (15) No doubt New Labour ministers would regard such moves as protectionism, locked as they are in a discredited free-market mindset.
  • (16) So-called "structured" savings accounts promoted heavily by banks and building societies promise savers extra interest if they lock their money away for at least five years.
  • (17) Palmer sought to clarify his statements on Tuesday, and said they were aimed at the company he is currently locked in a dispute with, and not the broader Chinese population.
  • (18) Foveal exposures that did not produce an immediately visible lesion did not produce measurable changes in VEP response lock-in time.
  • (19) Scream Queens is the kind of show where you discover a secret locked room in the basement in one scene and then we find out exactly what is in the room three scenes later.
  • (20) In a group of the MS-DB units with stable background theta bursts the typical response consisting of entrainment of the phase-locked theta cycles was changed neither by physostigmine, nor by cholinergic-blocking drugs (scopolamine and atropine).