Lock vs. Unlock
Locknoun
Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
Unlockverb
(transitive) To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
‘I unlocked the door and walked in.’;
Locknoun
A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
Unlockverb
(transitive) To obtain access to something.
‘I unlocked the dictionary article so I could edit it.’; ‘This computer game is shareware, but you can pay for a code to unlock the full version.’;
Locknoun
A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
Unlockverb
(transitive) To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge.
‘The discovery of a clue unlocked the mystery.’;
Locknoun
(gun mechanisms) The firing mechanism.
Unlockverb
(intransitive) To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
Locknoun
Complete control over a situation.
Unlockverb
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Locknoun
Something sure to be a success.
Unlocknoun
The act of unlocking something.
Locknoun
(rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
Unlockverb
To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.
Locknoun
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
Unlockverb
To open, in general; to lay open; to undo.
‘Unlock your springs, and open all your shades.’; ‘[Lord] unlock the spell of sin.’;
Locknoun
A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
Unlockverb
open the lock of;
‘unlock the door’;
Locknoun
A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
Unlockverb
set free or release
Locknoun
A grapple in wrestling.
Unlockverb
become unlocked;
‘The door unlocked from the inside’; ‘lock the bike to the fence’;
Locknoun
A tuft or length of hair, wool etc.
Locknoun
A small quantity of straw etc.
Locknoun
A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
Lockverb
(intransitive) To become fastened in place.
‘If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock.’;
Lockverb
(transitive) To fasten with a lock.
‘Remember to lock the door when you leave.’;
Lockverb
(intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
‘This door locks with a key.’;
Lockverb
(transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
‘with his hands locked behind his back’; ‘We locked arms and stepped out into the night.’;
Lockverb
To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
‘a pop and lock routine’;
Lockverb
To furnish (a canal) with locks.
Lockverb
To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
Lockverb
To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Lockverb
To officially prevent other users from posting in (a thread).
Locknoun
A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
‘These gray locks, the pursuivants of death.’;
Locknoun
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.
Locknoun
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
‘Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages.’;
Locknoun
A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
Locknoun
The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
Locknoun
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.
Locknoun
That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
Locknoun
A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
Locknoun
A grapple in wrestling.
Lockverb
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.
Lockverb
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.
Lockverb
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.
Lockverb
To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
Lockverb
To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
Lockverb
To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Lockverb
To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
‘When it locked none might through it pass.’;
Locknoun
a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
Locknoun
a strand or cluster of hair
Locknoun
a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
Locknoun
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
Locknoun
a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
Locknoun
any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
Lockverb
fasten with a lock;
‘lock the bike to the fence’; ‘unlock the door’;
Lockverb
keep engaged;
‘engaged the gears’;
Lockverb
become rigid or immoveable;
‘The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise’;
Lockverb
hold in a locking position;
‘He locked his hands around her neck’;
Lockverb
become engaged or intermeshed with one another;
‘They were locked in embrace’;
Lockverb
hold fast (in a certain state);
‘He was locked in a laughing fit’;
Lockverb
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’;
Lockverb
pass by means through a lock in a waterway
Lockverb
build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
