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 Lock \Lock\ (l[o^]k), n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr. ? to bend, twist.] A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. [1913 Webster] These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Lock \Lock\, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. l[=u]can to lock, fasten; akin to OS. l[=u]kan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. l[=u]hhan, Icel. l[=u]ka, Goth. l[=u]kan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break. Cf. Locket.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. [1913 Webster] Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. [1913 Webster] 5. 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. [1913 Webster] 6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc. [1913 Webster] 7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning. [1913 Webster] 8. A grapple in wrestling. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Detector lock, a lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with. Lock bay (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber. Lock chamber, the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock. Lock nut. See Check nut, under Check. Lock plate, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached. Lock rail (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail nearest the lock. Lock rand (Masonry), a range of bond stone. --Knight. Mortise lock, a door lock inserted in a mortise. Rim lock, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a mortise lock. [1913 Webster] Lock \Lock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Locked; p. pr. & vb. n. Locking.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] 4. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. “ Lock hand in hand.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. (Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock. [1913 Webster] 6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. [1913 Webster] Lock \Lock\, v. i. To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close. [1913 Webster] When it locked none might through it pass. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]