Found 3 items, similar to lock.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: lock
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: lock
lock
v 1: fasten with a lock;
“lock the bike to the fence” [ant:
unlock,
unlock]
2: keep engaged;
“engaged the gears” [syn:
engage,
mesh,
operate]
[ant:
disengage]
3: become rigid or immoveable;
“The therapist noticed that the
patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise” [ant:
unlock]
4: hold in a locking position;
“He locked his hands around her
neck” [syn:
interlock,
interlace]
5: become engaged or intermeshed with one another;
“They were
locked in embrace” [syn:
interlock]
6: hold fast (in a certain state);
“He was locked in a laughing
fit”
7: place in a place where something cannot be removed or
someone cannot escape;
“The parents locked her daughter up
for the weekend”;
“She locked her jewels in the safe”
[syn:
lock in,
lock away,
put away,
shut up,
shut away
,
lock up]
8: pass by means through a lock in a waterway
9: build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
lock
n 1: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly
closed
2: a strand or cluster of hair [syn:
curl,
ringlet,
whorl]
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; used to raise or lower
vessels that pass through it [syn:
lock chamber]
5: a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent
the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
[syn:
ignition lock]
6: any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body
is twisted or pressured
English → English (gcide)
Definition: lock
Safety
\Safe"ty\, n. [Cf. F. sauvet['e].]
1. The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger
or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
[1913 Webster]
Up led by thee,
Into the heaven I have presumed,
An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down,
Return me to my native element. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from
liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the
quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence,
justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.
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Would there were any safety in thy sex,
That I might put a thousand sorrows off,
And credit thy repentance! --Beau. & Fl.
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3. Preservation from escape; close custody.
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Imprison him, . . .
Deliver him to safety; and return. --Shak.
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4. (Amer. Football) the act or result of a ball-carrier on
the offensive team being tackled behind his own goal line,
or the downing of a ball behind the offensive team's own
goal line when it had been carried or propelled behind
that goal line by a player on the offensive tream; such a
play causes a score of two points to be awarded to the
defensive team; -- it is distinguished from
touchback,
when the ball is downed behind the goal after being
propelled there or last touched by a player of the
defending team. See
Touchdown. Same as
Safety touchdown
, below.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
5. Short for
Safety bicycle. [archaic]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6. a switch on a firearm that locks the trigger and prevents
the firearm from being discharged unintentionally; -- also
called
safety catch,
safety lock, or
lock. [archaic]
[PJC]