(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).
Stump
Definition:
(n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
(n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
(n.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
(n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
(n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
(n.) A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
(v. t.) To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
(v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
(v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus.
(v. t.) To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.
(n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
(n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
(v. i.) To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(3) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(4) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
(5) Posterior half stumps regenerated limbs with a mean digit number of 2.7 and had a normal dorsoventral muscle pattern.
(6) Two factors influencing cellular morphology in vitro were identified in Locusta: 1) the presence of a primary neurite stump, and 2) membrane contacts between cells.
(7) This low level of binding was maintained for periods of up to 70 days, demonstrating that some STX binds to structures other than axons in denervated distal stumps.
(8) For those who can't stump up more than 5% of the agreed price, he suggests guarantor mortgages, such as that offered by Lloyds TSB.
(9) The appendix or appendix stump was visualised on 53% of the barium examinations.
(10) We describe a male infant with congenital deficiency of coagulation Factor XIII who presented in the immediate postnatal period with umbilical stump bleeding and suffered a severe intracranial hemorrhage at 2 months of age.
(11) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(12) In both treatments, the proximal axon stumps exhibited regenerative growth as early as 1 day after axotomy, and, by the third day, neurites had extended.
(13) Since muscle contraction ceases immediately following nerve transection, regardless of nerve stump length, the results can be ascribed to the lack of some neural influence other than nerve-evoked muscle activity.
(14) Injury to the stump of a below-knee amputation (BKA) may require revision to a higher level of amputation.
(15) Crushing the optic nerve eliminated retinopetal fibers from all regions except the cerebral stump of the optic nerve, indicating that this projection was of central origin.
(16) This is dependent upon the gap between the tendon stumps being rather small.
(17) To maintain its 30% stake the Co-op would need to stump up another £120m, increasing its already high debt levels.
(18) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
(19) The radiological picture of the amputation stump after osteosarcoma was reviewed in 75 cases, in which postoperative follow-up ranged from a minimum four months, to a maximum of over 12 years.
(20) The postoperative alkaline reflux gastritis is described, the consequences including the carcinoma of the gastric stump are mentioned.