Locks vs. Dreadlocks — What's the Difference?

A device operated by a key, combination, or keycard and used, as on a door, for holding, closing, or securing.

Dreadlocks, also locs, dreads, or in Sanskrit, Jaṭā, are rope-like strands of hair formed by locking or braiding hair.Dreadlocks are controversial and commonly a flashpoint of cultural appropriation, but the style is demonstrably global and ancient and multicultural. Even the name is controversial, having negative and colonial connotations.

A section of a waterway, such as a canal, closed off with gates, in which vessels in transit are raised or lowered by raising or lowering the water level of that section.

A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow into long matted strings.

A mechanism in a firearm for exploding the charge.

An interlocking or entanglement of elements or parts.

(Sports) A hold in wrestling or self-defense that is secured on a part of an opponent's body.

A secure hold; control

A sure thing; a certainty

A length or curl of hair; a tress.

Often locks The hair of the head.

A small wisp or tuft, as of wool or cotton.

To fasten the lock of

To shut or make secure with or as if with locks

To confine or exclude by or as if by means of a lock

To fix in place so that movement or escape is impossible; hold fast

To sight and follow (a moving target) automatically

To aim (a weapon or other device) at a moving target so as to follow it automatically

To clasp or link firmly; intertwine or interlock

To bind in close struggle or battle

To equip (a waterway) with locks.

To pass (a vessel) through a lock.

To invest (funds) in such a way that they cannot easily be converted into cash.

To arrange or secure (an interest rate) for a loan.

To end the processing of (a magnetic tape or disk) in such a way as to deny access to its contents.

To protect (a file) from changes or deletion.

To become fastened by or as if by means of a lock

To become entangled or jammed; interlock.

To become rigid or immobile

To pass through a lock or locks in a waterway.

Plural of lock

A head of hair; tresses.

(colloquial) Dreadlocks.