Found 3 items, similar to lock.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: lock centung, kunci, mengunci
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. [1913 Webster] Would there were any safety in thy sex, That I might put a thousand sorrows off, And credit thy repentance! --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 3. Preservation from escape; close custody. [1913 Webster] Imprison him, . . . Deliver him to safety; and return. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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]