(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).
Padlock
Definition:
(n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
(n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
(v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only shop online on secure sites Before entering your card details, always ensure that the locked padlock or unbroken key symbol is showing in your browser, cautions industry advisory body Financial Fraud Action UK.
(2) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(3) In effect, the large number is a digital padlock which you make available to anyone so they can secure a message.
(4) In the middle of the afternoon its few occupants – a noodle joint, a coffee shop, a Japanese restaurant advertising “suisi”– are padlocked.
(5) He's a member of a party whose best hope for its legacy is that the padlock on the trap door holding that legacy in the basement doesn't come loose.
(6) The 45 degrees interconversion angle between the lip and padlock views support this arrangement.
(7) Really, his fridge in the Treasury kitchen is replete with a padlock.
(8) Police told activists on Wednesday they were investigating the theft of a padlock, which Occupy disputes.
(9) My phone battery was dying so I went to my suitcase, and that’s when I realised the padlock was missing.
(10) I saw sick and defeated men crammed behind fences and being denied their basic human rights, padlocked inside small areas in rooms often with no windows and being mistreated by those who were employed to care for their safety.” Morrison’s office has not returned calls seeking his response to the report.
(11) Scotland Yard's inquiry also found no evidence of Williams's fingerprints on the padlock of the bag or the rim of the bath, which the coroner last year said supported her assertion of "third-party involvement" in the death.
(12) Pretending that the job can be finished by spending cuts alone is as bad as pretending that the problem doesn’t exist at all.” The treasury chief secretary also mocked Osborne for being so tight-fisted that he keeps his milk in a padlocked fridge in the treasury.
(13) We’ve got to look for the padlock in our browser when we shop online.
(14) But until last week, when I was on the way to hear the celebrated American economist Paul Krugman and others debate the wisdom of current austerity policies, I had not realised that the ban on potentially offensive weapons also applies to small padlocks of the sort one uses to safeguard one's clothes in the lockers of changing rooms.
(15) Past the handgun factory that has become an arts centre, behind the rebuilt station with its shiny statue of the first Basque president, there’s a long blackened tunnel with a padlocked door.
(16) They exhibit a very special shape resembling a "padlock" in which three different areas can be distinguished: (a) a compact zone corresponding to the fibrillar component, (b) the granular component and (c) a fibrillar center of low density.
(17) What is writ very large in India’s Daughter , but camouflaged in other countries where equality is more strongly embedded in law, is the low value placed on females and the determination of some men, educated as well as the impoverished, to keep women padlocked to the past.
(18) 2) Before purchasing anything, momentarily view that website as a Where's Wally – ie re-read the micro print, check that the web page has a small padlock in the bottom corner (this means it is secure) and ensure that the web address starts with https.
(19) Thondhlana was at the country's last independent daily, the Daily News, in 2003 when armed police stormed the office, ordered journalists out and padlocked the door.
(20) Talking about working with George Osborne at the Treasury, Alexander said : “We do share things – but not the milk, which to my amusement he still keeps under lock and key … Really, his fridge in the Treasury kitchen is replete with a padlock.